Eleven thousand men. One army of the formerly enslaved. The battle that broke an empire and forged the first free Black nation on Earth. Command the rebellion. Finish what Vertières started.
For thirteen years, the enslaved population of Saint-Domingue fought the three greatest empires of the age — and won. Vertières puts you inside that history: not as spectator, but as commander, soldier, and architect of the only nation ever born from a successful slave revolt.
Commander, Army of Vertières
Formerly enslaved, Dessalines rose to command the indigenous army and led the decisive charge at Vertières. He would become the first ruler of an independent Haiti. In-game: an aggressive frontline commander whose presence raises troop morale under fire.
Playable — Campaign ModeArchitect of the Revolution
Strategist, statesman, and former coachman who out-maneuvered French, Spanish, and British forces alike. Captured before Vertières, his campaigns built the army that would finish what he started. In-game: unlocks strategic-layer command missions in the prologue chapters.
Playable — Prologue ChaptersThe First Spark
Decades before Vertières, Makandal led a maroon resistance network from the mountains, becoming legend among the enslaved population. In-game: appears in flashback missions that unlock the game's lore codex and maroon-camp survival mechanics.
Playable — Flashback MissionsLieutenant, Army of the South
A fierce lieutenant and one of the revolution's most celebrated women commanders, executed by firing squad for refusing to renounce the cause. In-game: a playable skirmish hero with unique cavalry-disruption abilities.
Playable — Skirmish ModeHeroine of Crête-à-Pierrot
Fighting alongside her husband during the siege of Crête-à-Pierrot, Marie-Jeanne took up arms herself, loading cannons and rallying defenders under heavy French bombardment, becoming one of the siege's most celebrated figures. In-game: a playable hero unlocked in the Crête-à-Pierrot siege-defense mission.
Playable — Siege Defense MissionWife of Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint's wife and a steady presence through years of war and exile, Suzanne was deported to France alongside her husband and sons after his capture, and outlived him after his death in a French prison. In-game: appears in narrative cutscenes during the prologue's closing chapters.
Narrative Figure — Prologue CloserWife of Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Known for repeatedly pleading for mercy toward French prisoners and colonists even as the war reached its most brutal phase, Marie-Claire would become Haiti's first empress after independence, remembered for her compassion amid the violence. In-game: unlocks a campaign-wide mercy mechanic affecting post-battle prisoner outcomes.
Narrative Figure — Post-Vertières+ A full historical roster of generals and maroon leaders unlocked through the campaign — see below.
Voice of Bois Caïman
A Vodou priest and enslaved coachman, Boukman presided over the Bois Caïman ceremony in August 1791 that is widely credited with igniting the uprising. He led the first wave of revolt before being killed weeks later. In-game: appears in the opening mission as the campaign's catalyst.
Playable — Opening MissionPriestess of Bois Caïman
A Vodou priestess of Corsican and Senegalese descent, Fatiman co-led the Bois Caïman ceremony alongside Boukman, sacrificing a black pig in a rite that bound the early revolutionaries to their cause. In-game: appears in the prologue and grants a campaign-wide morale buff once unlocked.
Playable — Opening MissionEarly Insurgent Commander
One of the first generals of the 1791 uprising, Jean-François led alongside Biassou before later allying with Spanish forces against the French. In-game: commands the early northern-plains insurgency missions.
Playable — Early CampaignEarly Insurgent Commander
A co-leader of the 1791 revolt and early mentor to Toussaint Louverture, Biassou commanded alongside Jean-François before the two fell out over allegiance to Spain. In-game: a recruitable early-campaign commander with unique cavalry-raid tactics.
Playable — Early CampaignInsurgent Band Leader
One of the earliest band leaders of the 1791 revolt, known for his ferocity in the opening weeks of the uprising before being executed by his own allies for excessive brutality. In-game: a high-risk, high-reward early skirmish unit.
Playable — Early Campaign+ Generals: Moyse Louverture, Charles Bélair, Lamour Dérance, Macaya, Gabriel, Hyacinthe. Maroon leaders: Romaine-la-Prophétesse, Capois-La-Mort, Alexandre Pétion, Henri Christophe — all unlocked through the campaign.
Commander, French Expeditionary Army
Napoleon's final commander in Saint-Domingue, Rochambeau took over after Leclerc's death and waged a brutal campaign to crush the rebellion. He commanded the French line at Vertières and surrendered the colony in its aftermath. In-game: the campaign's principal antagonist, commanding the AI garrison at the final battle.
Campaign Antagonist — Final BattleNapoleon's Brother-in-Law, First Expedition Commander
Sent by Napoleon to retake the colony and restore slavery, Leclerc led the initial invasion and the capture of Toussaint Louverture, before dying of yellow fever in 1802. In-game: commands the early-campaign invasion missions and the hunt for Louverture.
Campaign Antagonist — Early ChaptersFrench Civil Commissioner
A radical French Republican commissioner, Sonthonax decreed the abolition of slavery in the northern province in 1793 — a year before Paris followed — to secure Black allies against royalist and foreign threats. In-game: a politically ambiguous figure whose decree opens key alliance options in the early campaign.
Historical Figure — Early CampaignFrench Civil Commissioner
Co-commissioner alongside Sonthonax, Polverel extended emancipation to the western and southern provinces in 1793, though his administration imposed strict labor controls on the newly freed population. In-game: appears in diplomatic-layer missions tied to the early republican period.
Historical Figure — Early CampaignFrench Governor, Early Ally of Louverture
As French governor of Saint-Domingue, Laveaux formed a crucial alliance with Toussaint Louverture, later appointing him lieutenant governor after Louverture's forces rescued him from a coup attempt. In-game: a key alliance NPC in the strategic-layer prologue chapters.
Historical Figure — Prologue ChaptersRoyalist Governor-General
Appointed governor-general in 1793, Galbaud clashed violently with Commissioner Sonthonax and led an armed revolt against the republican administration, plunging Cap-Français into days of fighting before his defeat. In-game: commands a rival faction encountered in the 1793 civil-conflict missions.
Campaign Antagonist — 1793 ConflictOfficer Who Seized Louverture
Acting under Leclerc's orders, Brunet lured Toussaint Louverture to a meeting under false pretenses and had him arrested, leading to Louverture's deportation to France. In-game: central to the betrayal mission that closes the prologue chapters.
Campaign Antagonist — Prologue CloserDivision Commander, Expeditionary Army
A division commander under Leclerc, Hardy led French forces in the northern campaign against the insurgency before being recalled to France in 1802. In-game: commands a mid-campaign northern offensive that players must repel.
Campaign Antagonist — Mid CampaignBrigade Commander, Expeditionary Army
A brigade commander in Leclerc's invasion force, Debelle led assaults against insurgent strongholds in the early phase of the war before later serving in the Crête-à-Pierrot campaign. In-game: an AI commander encountered defending fortified positions.
Campaign Antagonist — Siege MissionsDivision Commander, Expeditionary Army
A division commander who led French forces at Vertières itself, Boudet's defense of the position ultimately collapsed under Dessalines' final assault. In-game: the AI commander directly defending the Vertières objective.
Campaign Antagonist — Final Battle+ Admiral Latouche-Tréville and the full command structure of Napoleon's army, encountered across the campaign.
Spanish Colonial Governor
Governor of Spanish Santo Domingo, García oversaw Spain's strategy of arming and commissioning insurgent leaders like Jean-François and Biassou as a way to destabilize French Saint-Domingue during the early war between the two crowns. In-game: a diplomatic NPC offering arms and supply missions in the early campaign.
Historical Figure — Early CampaignArms & Commissions for Early Rebel Forces
Acting on Madrid's orders, Spanish officers in Santo Domingo supplied arms and military commissions to early insurgent commanders, formally folding them into Spanish ranks to weaken France's grip on the western half of the island. In-game: a recurring supply-line faction in the early campaign's diplomatic layer.
Historical Faction — Early CampaignBritish Commander, Negotiated Peace with Louverture
After years of costly British occupation attempts, Maitland negotiated a secret withdrawal agreement directly with Toussaint Louverture in 1798, ending Britain's failed campaign and securing informal trade terms. In-game: a diplomatic NPC central to the British withdrawal storyline.
Historical Figure — Diplomatic ArcBritish Field Commander
A British general who led forces during Britain's occupation campaign in Saint-Domingue, part of a broader and ultimately unsuccessful effort to seize the colony from France amid years of yellow fever losses and insurgent resistance. In-game: an AI commander in the British-occupation side-campaign missions.
Campaign Antagonist — British Occupation ArcBlack British Colonial Troops
Formed largely of enslaved and free Black soldiers purchased or recruited into British service, these regiments fought on behalf of the Crown during the occupation campaign — a complicated parallel to the freedom being fought for elsewhere on the island. In-game: a unique unit type in the British-occupation side missions, with its own equipment and morale systems.
Unit Type — British Occupation Arc+ The broader British occupation campaign (1793–1798) is explored in optional side-campaign missions separate from the main Vertières storyline.
Command up to 200 units on screen across the real terrain of Cap-Haïtien — from the Vertières plain to the fortified ridgelines, rendered from period maps and modern survey data.
Wield the coutelas, captured French muskets, and improvised weapons of the revolution — each with authentic period handling and upgrade trees.
Decisions ripple from Bois Caïman to Vertières. Protect key commanders or lose them — history bends to your choices.
Squad up with up to 4 players in cross-platform skirmish mode — PC, console, and mobile players fight side by side.
An in-game archive of real testimony, maps, and figures — built with Haitian historians as consultants on every chapter.
Six campaign maps recreate the real geography of the northern revolution — dense cane fields for ambush, the fortified heights of Crête-à-Pierrot, and the open plain at Vertières where the final charge broke Rochambeau's line.
A free, playable scene from the Vertières battle — command Dessalines' forces against Rochambeau's entrenched line. One battle, on the house.
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"The first strategy game that made the Haitian Revolution feel like the epic it actually was. Vertières doesn't flinch."
— RPG Codex
"Brutal, beautiful, and historically serious. The character writing for Dessalines alone is worth the price of admission."
— Indie Battalion
"I've played every Total War game ever made. This is the first one that made me cry at the credits."
— Steam user, 312 hrs played
How our animation team worked with historians to choreograph the battle's last twenty minutes — and why we almost scrapped the whole sequence twice.
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Vertières launches on PC (Steam, Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and iOS/Android, with full cross-progression between all platforms.
We worked with Haitian historians throughout development to keep the campaign grounded in real events, figures, and locations, while allowing player choice within that history. A full sourcing list is in the in-game codex.
Vertières is rated ESRB Mature 17+ and PEGI 18 for depictions of war violence and themes of slavery. See the Age Rating section below for full content descriptors.
Yes. The "Sons of Vertières" campaign DLC ships alongside the Deluxe Edition, with further story DLC planned post-launch — all detailed on our roadmap blog.
Yes — 4-player co-op skirmish supports full crossplay between PC, console, and mobile.
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