Battle Realms is a real-time strategy video game published and released by Crave Entertainment and Ubi Soft in November 2001.

[2] In 2019, the game was re-released on Steam as Battle Realms: Zen Edition, in its early access state with functioning online multiplayer.

All factions start off with three basic training structures which produce units along different paths of warfare, such as melee or ranged combat.

In most cases, units can be trained in three different structures to produce more highly skilled infantry or Battle Gears (commonly abbreviated as BGs) to improve their combat ability.

Each army obtains points of Yin or Yang when in combat, depending on their moral alliance to the forces of light or darkness.

There are four available factions, called clans in Battle Realms, and each has a different philosophy towards life and combat: Unlike most strategy games, all units in Battle Realms have a melee attack, however, missile units typically have drastically weaker melee attacks.

A unit's attack has a property - either cutting, piercing, blunt, explosive, magic, or fire, as well as a bonus damage against buildings.

The Serpent Clan, followers of Yin, have forgotten their honorable ways and have resorted to thievery and deceit.

Wolf Clansmen prizes freedom above all else, while also being down-to-earth, hardworking people, and take a delight in nature.

The reviewer noted good gameplay and praised the graphics and animations, but he said the game did not deviate much from traditional RTSes and the AI did not stand out.

[20] Battle Realms: Winter of the Wolf is the expansion pack, announced on July 7, 2002 [21] and released on November 5, 2002.