Anyone play this title? 98% positive reviews! How much gameplay is there?

Can you recommend any really great steam indie strategy rpgs where the story and characters are the driving force.

Please Keep in mind that I'm looking for Indie strategy rpgs, not standard turn based or strategy rpgs.

I'd especially appreciate reccs for titles that are under 4 years old.

Please don't recommend roguelikes/roguelites.

Here's my two faves:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1580520/Lost_Eidolons/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/300550/Shadowrun_Dragonfall__Directors_Cut/

And yes I'm aware of other two Shadowrun games, they're great. What else is out there that I should be playing?

I'm also aware of:

Fall Seal

Baldur's Gate 3(and I don't consider it an indie game.) and several other titles that have well over 10k reviews on steam.

Colony Ship

Troubleshooter

Are there any SRPGs that are on the steam sale now that you all would recommend?

I'm a huge gamer, I play every genre and I thought I had my preferences straight for a while, those being story-focused Rpgs, some of my favorites being Xenoblade 2, Octopath Traveler, and Crosscode, with an exception in the Monster Hunter saga.

This year however I think my tastes have started to prefer Strategy games: Though I never disliked them (Valkyria Chronicles 1&4 are still some of the best games i've played), i had never thought about them as a separate genre, for me Fire Emblem was just Fire Emblem, the good turn-based RPG, and i could never truly tell what made it appealing to me.

Only this year i started seeing SRPGs as something different, after playing Unicorn Overlord which is my GOTY, Troubleshooter, Symphony of War, Disgaea PC and Stella Glow.
Something clicked into my mind, I could finally understand what made me play UO for 8 hours straignt, and that thing is customization.

Turns out i was always a "customization" freak and i never discovered it, I spent an unhealthy amount of hours on UO tactics, symphony of war units and troubleshooter mastery sets, those strategy games have near infinite build customization and even in battles the gameplay changes based on your choices.
This aspect is aparently my favorite thing ever and i can't get enough of it.

To prove my theory I went back on my tracks and analysed some of my favorite games, and guess what, all the games i listed in the beginning and many more i've liked have huge customization elements.
I was kinda blown away by this, I thought i knew everything about gaming and my tastes but turns out i have much more self discovery to do with this medium.

Anyway, thanks for reading this vent, and if you got this far, feel free to reccomend me games with similar characteristics to those i have listed, or not, i play everything that intrigues me anyway.

Hi all, I am looking for strategy games that have branching classes. An example is Fell Seal, where Mercenary branches into Scoundrel and Knight, and Mender branches into Plague Doctor and Wizard etc.

Three Houses does this to some extent except the class progression is based on weapon mastery.

Doesn't have to be traditional fantasy, just would like a game where you not the same mercenary class from start to finish of the game. And even better that you have the freedom of choice to reclass your big buff dude who's usually the typical tank into a wizard for example.

Thanks in advance :))

Any startegy tactical turnbased but when you attack an enemy, it becomes a fighting game.

Ex. Imagine Finalfantasy tactics, but becomes marvel vs capcom / dissidia style.

I am looking to play a game that is a sort of amalgamation of different strategy games and wondering if there's one out there that meets the criteria.

1. Tactics based automated battles similar to Unicorn overlord.
2. Unit customization similar to the modern fire emblem titles (awakening and newer).
3. Large class selection where the classes are all parallel to each other similar to tactics games and bravely default.
4. Grim dark / gothic / lovecraftian aesthetic similar to darkest dungeon.

Any help is appreciated!

Hi I’m currently looking for any tactic game that have a real-time combat like Unicorn Overlord, grownlanser or Diofield Chronicles.

Doesn’t matter the system or graphics I’m open to any new experience.

Has anyone played any of it now that it's out? I want to pull the trigger so bad but I'm nervous!

Sone of my favourite games in the JRPG genre are strategy games with war and military elements to them such as Valkyria Chronicles, Sakura Taisen and Fire Emblems.

What are some of yours?

I've been playing Age of Wonders 4 and I've been loving it, but I wish there was a bit more options with diplomacy and noble houses and clans and marriage options between houses or even kingdoms

Does maybe anyone know a High Fantasy strategy game like Age of Wonders but with like marriage stuff in it?

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I’ve been looking for some tactics and SRPGs to watch while I’m at work and was wondering if there were any titles that people enjoy watching passively?

So I'm in an rpg phase and I already did a similar post previously in r/DRPG because I wanted to know better some sub-genres of Jrpgs that I didn't know that well.

Present me the absolute best SRPG of all time in terms of gameplay and level design (epic battles are good enough plots for me). It can be a multiplayer (despite that Idk any except advance), from any platform( from the NES to PC, even flash games I would say), NSFW or not (yes I say this because I heard about Sengoku Rance) and from the Tactical as FFT and Disgaea to the High Strategy games ( like Sengoku Rance and maybe Nobunaga's Ambition, at least something with a country invading mechanics) and the game can be as complex as possible.

I know we have stuff like 3 Houses but is there anything that's not heavily scripted? I'd love to play a game with just a magic/spellblade/military academy and then you recruit the students to go out and fight tactical battles.

Hello, I’ll get right into it. Love fire emblem, the newer ones (starting with awakening). I love srpgs that aren’t too hard. I also like srpgs with like units that aren’t too characters and not like default mage, so fft and tactics ogre are out. I do value a good story, voice acted in English is a plus also. Romance in the game world be nice but not required. I also prefer ones that are available on steam, due to me playing them on steam deck but yet again, not necessary. I do tend to lean towards modern ones more. So yeah I’m up for recommendations.

I know about fire emblem, that’s the main one. The more options the better, but if I had to pick then women x women would be my prefere romance. I love being able to play match maker like in fire emblem also. Any other srpgs like that?

My first strategy game was Fire Emblem Three Houses. I played that in December 2022. I only played one route, Blue Lions. Since then I have played Triangle Strategy, Fire Emblem Engage, and Unicorn Overlord.

I enjoy class builds and running around somewhere after fights. This isn't needed just something I enjoy.

Here are the games I have:

Tactics Ogre: Reborn The Diofield Chronicle Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark Cross Tails Disgaea 7 Persona 5 Tactica Mercenaries Lament: Requiem Of The Silver Wolf Lost Eidolons Redemption Reapers Another route in Three Houses?

Thanks and please feel free to drop any recommendations you think I might like!

I am very heavily burnt out on the FFT style of move/attack once as it often leads to just rolling in a death ball, and doesnt feel very 'tactical' in the slightest. I played Reverse collapse recently, and wow what a breath of fresh air that you can park in your starting spot and throw a bunch of attacks down, such a simple change made it really enjoyable. Bonus points for anime or scifi games, thanksl

Some examples of story rich, character driven titles that I like: Final Fantasy Tactics, Baldur's Gate 2 and 3, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, edit: Shadowrun Returns + Dragonfall, Grandia1+2, and Lost Eidolons.

Some examples of titles I like where easy mode is, god forbid, actually easy: Baldur's Gate 3, Shadowrun Returns + Dragonfall, Grandia1+2, and Lost Eidolons.

Optional: I imagine that most people are gonna mention the same 5 or so games, so please try to mention more than one game.

My list:

Destiny 2

Horizon Forbidden West

God of War

Demon Slayer

Dragon Ball Z

Hi everyone! I’m looking for a game that is similar to Lost Eidolons. I love FE and FF Tactics, but something about the darker story / high quality graphics really grabbed me. Does anyone have recommendations for games similar?

Question for the SRPG and TRPG lovers.

Did anyone else like this game? I thought it was very interesting and had a nice twist to it with the dying and getting progressively darker as time went on.

I platinum'd it and would give it a solid 7 outta 10.

I’m honestly just curious if something like this exists in some combination of features. If I had to name them, old school RTS games and ARPGs (isometrics) have not only been my most consistently played genres but also probably my first ones I can remember playing. Diablo and Sacred, and Stronghold Crusader and AoE 1 + 2 to name just the biggest faves in my young life.

When it comes to isometrics, these days I’m usually playing Last Epoch, especially when I need a quick vent and just a relaxing, familiar game to channel my power fantasy through and make some “personalized” builds, and just toy around in general. On the other hand, my go-to base builder (with heavy emphasis on defensive and outlasting) has become Diplomacy is not an option. Both scratch itches on opposing ends of my ass, to put it bluntly lol

So, now I’m wondering if there’s a tactical/strategic RPG that combines the two, something like an isometric ARPG where you manage multiple characters or even squads/ large armies, and get to deck out the commanders with cool items and customize their skills to some extent. While also allowing for building, training, some economy management etc. It doesn’t matter if the battles are turn-based or even autobattles just so long as there’s that feeling of scale (that strategies have) while also letting you dive as deeply into details as possible and even micromanage certain characters and get to experience the combat from their view.

I know it might be far fetched, but is there something like this, and not in a CRPG context? I searched around on Google but couldn’t quite find what I wanted.

https://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps5/metal-slug-tactics

PROS:

• Offensive focused tactics are a joy
• Chunky Metal Slug sprites
• Moreish gameplay loop
• Fantastic mission variety
• A great and varied roster

CONS:

• An unfortunate slowdown bug
• Controls aren't the most intuitive
• Text is too small for bigger screens

Verdict: 8/10

Plus summary at:

- https://www.metacritic.com/game/metal-slug-tactics/

- https://opencritic.com/game/17585/metal-slug-tactics