Advance Wars
Advance Wars is a Turn-based Tactical-RPG and Strategy video game from Japanese origins. Developed by Intelligent Systems, the game sets you up into the character of Orange Start Army’s Commanding Officer Andy who leads his army into amazingly hardcore battles in order to defeat the enemy forces. With secondary objectives of seizing the whole cities, rule on their armies and taking possession of the resources, Advance Wars offers amazingly Action-packed game-play a great story to follow and some really nice visuals to enjoy the game. Advance Wars offers some cool sequels to the game such as Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, Advance Wars: Dual Strike and Advance Wars: Days of Ruin etc. With one main objective of destroying and defeating the enemies, Advance Wars offers 2 main ways to defeat your enemies. One of them is to hunt and defeat everyone on the map and the second is to capture enemy’s headquarters and push them out of it. Advance Wars also offers cool game modes such as Field Training or also known as Tutorial, The Campaign, The War Room, loads of other Multiplayer Modes etc. With an amazing game setting, cool visuals, and a totally immersive and challenging gameplay, Advance Wars is one amazing Strategy and Tactical RPG video game to play and enjoy.
#1 The Banner Saga
The Banner Saga by Stoic is an amazingly engaging Tactical, Strategy, RPG and Free-to-Play MMO video game. The game allows you to get into the role of Viking who is destined to make strategic choices, make allies and travel to unknown distances in order to eliminate an epic new threat that is about to vandalize a whole civilization. You must find the ones who will accompany you in the harshest of conditions and on unforgiving landscape in a world where everything that’s not you, wants to kill you. This wonderful game provides with a Final Fantasy Tactics and game of Throne type game-play in which you can get attached to anyone emotionally in order to make the game more interesting. The Banner Saga provides with unique aesthetics, a well-written story, an action oriented game-play etc.
#2 Fantasy War Tactics
Fantasy War Tactics is a Mobile Strategy, Massively Multiplayer Online and Role-playing video game available free-to-play on Android and iOS. The game takes place in a massive maps contain up to twelve regions and 180 dungeons to manipulate. There are more than fifty characters available to select and each character has its unique abilities, playing style and personality. It brings an isometric perspective grid-based strategic combat system, where the player needs to deploy his units known as Heroes, on the battlefield, taking his turn to take down foes or opponents. Up to four different tactical mechanics may affect the battle’s tides such as Terrain, Advantage, Cooperation, and Direction. The game introduces two modes to promote the interaction between players around the globe via a PvP (also known as Player versus Player) arena. Dimensional Breakthrough and Battle of honor are two modes in PvP Arena. Fantasy War Tactics includes prominent features such as Five Modes (Challenge, vs. Mode, Convenience, Hero Growth and Scenario), Fast-paced Gameplay, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#3 The Banner Saga 2
The Banner Saga 2 is a Tactical Role-playing and Single-player video game created by Stoic and published by Versus Evil for multiple platforms. The game serves as the sequel to The Banner Saga and introduces enhanced gameplay and new features. It revolves around the turn-based combat and offers new units, new enemies, new talents, new objectives and interactive objects. The game comes with The Horse-born race. The favourite heroes are available in the game from the original title return as playable characters. It embarks the player on an emotional journey around a breathtaking world, where the player must lead his team, use his resources wisely, and participate in skilful battles to experience the turn-based gameplay. It takes place in the beautifully 2D hand-drawn world and offers story-driven gameplay. The Banner Saga 2 includes core features such as Build and Manage Caravan, Travel the Landscapes, Improved Strategic Combat, and more. With impressive gameplay, superb mechanics, and smooth controls, The Banner Saga 2 is the wonderful game to play.
#4 Champs: Battlegrounds
Champs: Battlegrounds is a Free-to-Play Fantasy-based Action, Tactical Strategy and RPG video game by Quarks Games, Inc. The game allows you to control a Squad of Six Champs and lets you go against the enemies in a formation, tactically move and strategize your attacks and count your kills. In a multiplayer environment, the Champ Squad that kills 8 enemies first wins and enjoys countless great upgrades as the reward. The Champs in the squad are al capable of four unique abilities each and are free to use their abilities and skills while combating against the enemies. With a wonderful Strategy based game-play, great objective based story, a lot of skills, abilities and characters to choose between along with great visuals and an amazing open world environment, Champs: Battlegrounds is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#5 Skulls of the Shogun
Skulls of the Shogun by Microsoft Studios is an amazing Turn-based Strategy and Tactics video game that lets you set up yourself into the character of General Akamoto who gets stabbed to death on the day of becoming a Shogun. In the land of Dead he realizes that he’ll have to wait for centuries in order to go to the afterlife and becomes frustrated. He battles his way to the afterlife only to find out that his killer Lieutenant Karakawa has stolen his identity and is living in the afterlife as General Akamoto. Karakowa teams up with the protectors and a whole new series of battles starts up between the two sides. Your task is to defeat all the demonic forces, reach to the Karakowa and kill him in order to get back your identity and to enter in the afterlife. Skulls of the Shogun provides with a different touch but same mechanics and game-play as all the other games of the similar type and it’ll definitely make you enjoy and entertain yourself to the limits.
#6 Great Big War Game
Great Big War Game is a wonderful Turn-based Strategy and 2D video game that offers almost 50 Military and hardcore battles focused missions and campaigns. With the cross-platform support and multiplayer options, Great Big War Game is one of the best games to play. The games focuses on an ongoing conflict between the Blue Army and Red Army. As the lieutenant Jenkins of Blue Army, your task is to take order from the high command and lead the Blue Army and engage in hardcore Action and thrill filed battles with the Red Army, capture their outposts, basses and assassinate their generals and hoist the flags of Blue Army over their graves. The turn-based game-play allows you to build defensive structures wherever you go, continuously upgrade them in order to make them impenetrable and train more troops, generate resources and buy more weapons and stuff. With 30 amazing troop units, over 70 maps for skirmishes against the enemies, online Cross Platform multiplayer support, great visuals and an immersive game-play, Great Big War Game is a fun game to play and enjoy.
#7 Spectral Souls: Resurrection of the Ethereal Empires
Spectral Souls: Resurrection of the Ethereal Empires is a full scale Tactical Strategy, RPG and Action Adventure video game developed by “HyperDevbox Studio”. The core game-play and other mechanics of “Spectral Souls: Resurrection of the Ethereal Empires” deeply resembles to the one in “Final Fantasy Tactics”. The story of the game tells about the two most prominent races “Humans and Demons” who have been fighting against each other from a very long time. The battles kept writing and removing the fate of “Neverlands” and it kept going into the hands of devils and humans in different eras. The resent possession of the “Neverlands” left the humans in ruins and they started to battle against the demons. This is where you get into the play and stand against the demons with all the might and power combined. “Spectral Souls: Resurrection of the Ethereal Empires” provides with you a chance to fight against the most brutal and cold enemy ever, build your own guilds, gather up armies of warriors and fight against the demons, monsters etc, loot their resources and free “Neverlands” from the unlawful and dishonest reign of demons. With hundreds of hours of fun filled game-play, a lot of character customization options, countless quests and adventures, easy controls, “Spectral Souls: Resurrection of the Ethereal Empires” is a super exciting game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#8 Dragon Quest VIII
Dragon Quest VIII is an Action, Role-playing, and Single-player video game developed by Level-5 and published by Square Enix. The game takes place in a fantasy world and lets you jump into the game world by selecting a character. It is the eighth entry in the series of Dragon Quest. According to the story, the antagonist named Dhoulmagus, the King of Trodain, stole an ancient scepter and used it in Castle. The game takes you to an adventurous game world. You are required to defeat your enemies and the antagonist to recover the scepter and rescue the king and princess.
It has a set of levels that you have to complete to earn experience points. These points will unlock further content of the game. Customize your character and interact with lots of NPCs. Control the character using intuitive controls and participates in turn-based combat. Dragon Quest VIII offers core features such as Skill Points, The Tension System, Monster Team, Fantasy World, and more. Try it out, and you’ll surely enjoy it.
#9 Front Wars
Front Wars is a Turn-based, Strategy, Single and Multiplayer video game by Homemade Games. The game offers an exciting gameplay where you have to select your nation and fight against other nations. It takes place in WWII and lets you compete against your friends on Facebook. It offers massive maps consists of two armies, and the ultimate task is to create units and buildings and expand it further and further. The game has a set of levels, and each level is challenging as compared to last one. You can defeat your enemies by destroying their units or capturing their headquarters. The game rewards you with experience points that you can use to unlock powerful units, upgrades and more. Front Wars offers core features such as over Twenty-Six Missions, Fifteen different Units (Ships, Planes, Tanks, etc.), Three different Level Types, Multiplayer and more. Try it out.
#10 King’s Bounty: Legions
King’s Bounty: Legions is an Awesome, Action, Turn-based, Massively Multiplayer Online, Role-playing, and Strategy video game developed and published by Nival. The game provides you with the combination of various genres such as Tower-defense, Combat, and Strategy and lets you engage yourself in exploration experience. The game takes place in the fantasy world and allows you assume the role of the King, who must protect his Kingdom against demons, monsters, and other Kingdoms. The game lets you build your base, train and recruit your armies, and use them against vicious enemies and other online players around the world. In the game, you can control the party of more than five unit groups, each group having several hundred units such as Druids, Black Unicorns, Pirates, Dark Griffins, etc. You can join other player guilds or can create your own to play the game together to fight against vicious enemies. You must build and defend your Kingdoms and earn cash by the trading of resources and win epic battles against other players. You can interact with other online players, make new friends, and chat with them. The game includes most prominent features such as 3D Graphics, Several Locations, Choose the Strongest Soldier, PvP arena battle, and much more. With the best mechanics, excellent visual details, addictive gameplay, King’s Bounty: Legions is one of the best game as compared to other MMORPG and Strategy games. Try it out.
#11 Inotia 4: Assassin of Berkel
Inotia 4: Assassin of Berkel is an Action Role-playing and Single-player video game developed by Com2uS USA. The game takes place in the fantasy-based world and revolves around between two factions. You have to select your side, choose your character from different and dive into the world where you have to battle against enemies. There are six different character classes (Warlock, Assassin, Black Knight, Priest, etc.) and ninety unique skills. Through customization, you can change the appearance of your character. Explore the world from an isometric perspective, fight against enemies, monsters, and goblins to complete the quests and progress in the game to enhance your abilities. It introduces Convenient Party system, in which mercenaries will be added to your party and up to twenty unique skills will assist you along your epic journey. The environment contains dry deserts, dark dungeons, mysterious forests and freezing snowfields. With touch controls, excellent mechanics, and brilliant gameplay, Inotia 4: Assassin of Berkel is the best game for all ages to play and enjoy.
#12 Space Hulk
Space Hulk combines the Turn-based Strategy, Tactical, Sci-fi, and Board Game elements developed and published by Full Control Studios. The game takes place in the Warhammer 4K Universe and focuses on legendary battles and heroic actions. It lets you manages a small group of a space marine who effort to restore their honor by mounting an assault. You must lead your team, manipulate the environment, make your strategy and struggle to take down your enemies. Participate in turn-based combat and kill the enemy on your turn. There are a series of levels, and each level requires a completion of individual objectives. The game unlocks further content as you progress through the match. You can use your experience points to upgrade your characters. It takes place in the three-dimension world and comprises twelve challenging missions. Space Hulk offers prominent features such as Warhammer 4K Universe, Fearsome Gene Stealers, 3D Environments, Damnation Campaign, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#13 Breach and Clear
Breach and Clear is an Action Role-playing, Turn-based Strategy, and Single-player video game created by Mighty Rabbit Studios and published by Gun Media. The game takes place in the beautiful world and lets the player assume the role of the protagonist who is a leader of four Special Forces units. The primary objective of the player to get into the corrupt area and kill all foes within time. It takes place in the real location around the world and allows the player create his unique team contains up to four players, plan out his missions and dominate the battlefield. There are multiple squads available such as US Army Rangers, Canada’s JTF2, US Navy Seals and more. Multiple enemy varieties with various skill sets and abilities. Through customization features, the player can build his arsenal with hundreds of gun combinations, and equip each soldier with a different mixture of perks, armor and more. Breach and Clear offers core features such as different Modes, exciting and Strategic Gameplay, high-quality Graphics, and more. Breach and Clear is the best game as compared to other Turn-based Strategy games.
#14 Inotia 4
Inotia 4 is an Action Role-playing, Adventure, and Single-player video game developed by Com2uS USA. The plot takes place in the fantasy-based world invaded by orcs, goblins, etc. and you assume the role of the protagonist, who is responsible for rescue the world. There are six different character classes such as Assassin, Black Knight, Priest, Warlock, and Ranger. Each character has its skills and abilities. Up to fifteen skills available in each class and you can combine all to create the strategy of your party. Using Convenient Party System, you can add mercenaries in your group anywhere and anytime. More than 400 maps are present to explore, and you can battle enemies in turn-based combat and earn points to raise his skills. You navigate the world from an isometric perspective while battling enemies and scoring XP points. Unlock additional content using your points and become the master after completing quests. Inotia 4 includes prominent features such as Convenient Party System, Role-playing Maps, 20 unique Mercenary Skills, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.
#15 Eternium: Mage and Minions
Eternium: Mage and Minions is an Action Role-playing, and Single-player video game takes place in the fantasy environment developed by Making Fun, Inc. for multiple platforms. The game offers the similar gameplay to Torchlight, and Diablo and features several playable characters. It enables the player to select his character and start his quests, in which the player requires to earn points by killing enemies. Each character in the game has its unique abilities and a set of weapons that can be used during the fight. The player can navigate the world from an isometric perspective and can use his magic to cast spells and eliminate enemies to save the world. During the game, the player interacts with other non-player characters and environment to collect the information about the quests and the enemies. The player creates the army of minions to assist himself during the mission while battling foes. There are a variety of levels, and the player has to complete each one to become the master. With superb gameplay and smooth controls, Eternium: Mage and Minions is the best game to play.
#16 Demon’s Rise 2
Demon’s Rise 2 is a Strategy, Turn-Based, Tactical, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by Wave Light Games for multiple platforms. It is the sequel to the Demon’s Rise game and offers the same storyline to follow. Throughout the game, the player comes to experience battles in the unforgiving world.
In this strategic adventure, victory requires some tactical skills as well as smart use of terrain and magic. The player has to build a powerful war band, command the allies, and crush enemies. The game has 19 diverse character classes to build the band, where the player has to improve every warrior with different spells for victory.
As the player makes progress, he can become stronger and unlocking new powers and skills. The game has giant monsters and lords that are waiting for the true warrior to come and challenge them. Make a strong guild, do not show mercy, and bury the rivals who come across the player’s destination.
#17 Frozen Synapse Prime
Frozen Synapse Prime is a Sci-fi-themed, Turn-based Strategy, Cyberpunk, Tactical, Single-player and Multiplayer Top-down Shooter video game developed and published by Double Eleven for multiple platforms. The game puts the player in the role of the protagonist known as Tactics and struggle to command a rebel faction to take down a powerful corporation leading the Markov Geist’s city. During the gameplay, the player controls the strike team of soldiers, from snipers, shotgunners to machine-gunners and grenadiers. In the game, the player needs to make his strategy, lead his team, issue orders to his units, and test his strategy and effort to predict his opponent in each turn. The combat takes place on procedural, customizable, and destructible environments. The player can play online with his friends and other players all around the world to become the ultimate tactician. The game enables the players to battle against each other in multiple games simultaneously. Frozen Synapse Prime includes prominent features such as 40 Challenging Missions, Multiplayer Suite, Classic Death Match, Rescuing hostages, Global Leaderboards, and more. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and stunning graphics, Frozen Synapse Prime is the best game to play and enjoy.
#18 Great Little War Game
Great Little War Game (also known as GLWG) is a Military-based, Turn-based Strategy and 3D video game created by Rubicon Developments and published by Viacom Games. The game takes place in three kinds of environments such as Desert, Regular and Snowy. It has two different modes such as Campaign Mode and Call of Booty Campaign Mode. The Campaign comprises up to twenty levels while Call the Campaign mode has ten levels. In the game, you must command an army and battle against enemies on the land, air and sea but be sure you make the accurate decision as you progress through the game. In battlefield, you must deploy your soldiers to take advantage of terrain, choke points, and defensive walls. There are a series of levels and the game has four difficulty settings. There are lots of units which you can use and control to conquer the land. Great Little War Game includes exciting features such as high Replayability, Simple Controls, Lots of Terrain Types, Units, Lush Visuals, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.
#19 Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia
Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia is a Turn-based Strategy, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by New World Computing and published by The 3DO Company. The game serves as the 3rd title in the series of Heroes of Might and Magic. The story of the game is first referred throughout the title Might and Magic IV: The Mandate of Heaven and acts as the prequel to Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor. In the game, the player can select to play through seven different campaigns, unfolding the storyline, or play in the scenario against human or AI-controlled opponents. It offers the similar gameplay to its predecessors, in which the player commands a party of heroes that command an army of creatures inspired by legend and myth. The entire gameplay is split into two different parts such as Turn-based Combat and Tactical Overland Exploration. In the game, the player recruit an army by spending his collected resources at one of the eight towns. The gameplay mainly revolves around strategic exploration on the huge map and tactical combat. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and stunning visuals, Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia is the wonderful game to play.
#20 Phantom of the Kill
Phantom of the Kill is a Role-playing, Turn-based Combat, and Single-player video game takes place in the grid-based maps, developed by Fuji&Gumi Games for Android and iOS. The game introduces an engaging gameplays similar to the Fire Emblem video games of Nintendo. It also merges the elements of Social-network games often discovered in mobile games. In the game, the player needs to control the main character from a grid, following the chess-like movement and must fight against the opposing team in the turn-based system. During the gameplay, the character will be removed upon receiving enough damage in the battlefield, while the team will remain and fight against other opposing members. There’s no permadeath element, but the characters who are taken down will lose equipped items. The story of the game takes place in another dimension and follows the protagonist named Levaetein, a girl who once lived in another land until strange monster forces attacked it, smashing the civilization itself. Now, the player must, as the protagonist form a team, jump into the land for revenge.
#21 FE Heroes
FE Heroes is a Tactical, RPG, Simulation, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by Nintendo for various platforms. In this tactical battles, the player gets control over a team of four characters and face off hordes of enemies with varied sizes and powers that will not let the player win easily.
Different characters have different movement restrictions such as armored units have a shorter range, whereas cavalry units cannot enter forest tiles. The game’s currency is an orb that a player can use to acquire new heroes as well as several other items.
The game has plenty of missions that cost stamina to play where the player can recover the lost stamina over time. The game allows the player to switch between a player phase and an enemy phase after every turn. During the player’s phase, the character can attack enemy character when he is in range, and if both the attacker and defender have the same range, the defender will counterattack.
#22 Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions is a great Tactical-RPG from Square Enix and provides with a similar game-play experience to its predecessors. The game focuses on an ongoing conflict known as The War of the Lions between the kingdom of Ivalice and Ordalia. The Death of Ivalician Monarch, King Ondoria leaves the Prince Orinus in charge but he is an infant so a poll occurs between the Duke Larg and Duke Goltanna, Duke Goltanna gets elected as the king Regent and an internal conflict starts up between the two sides. Final Fantasy Tactics: The War lets you be on a side of your choice and act accordingly by engaging yourself into the political matters, class warfare, murders, and a number of quests throughout the game. Being a loyalist and a warrior, political advisor, etc. at the same time makes this game a bit more complex but quite engaging and addictive as well. With a wonderful setting, great visuals, a well-written storyline and an immersive game-play, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions is a great Tactical and RPG game to play and enjoy.