Etrian Odyssey
Etrian Odyssey combines the Role-playing and Dungeon Crawler elements by Atlus for Nintendo DS. The game offers an exciting story and takes place in the massive and fertile land situated in a small town called Etria, a peaceful town that becomes popular for a brilliant discovery. It challenges you with mapping and navigating the massive dungeons. Different characters are present in the game, and you chooses your character to start your journey to complete a series of quests. During the gameplay, you can interact with non-player characters, and environment to progress through the game. The protagonist, an adventurer must participate up to twenty battles and kill enemies using different tools like sword, axe and more. Using customization features, you can select the character from class and can change the appearance in your style. The game rewards you with XP points that you can use to unlock additional character classes, upgrades, items and more. With brilliant story, superb gameplay, turn-based strategic combat and excellent sound effect, Etrian Odyssey is the best game to play and enjoy.
#1 King’s Bounty: Dark Side
King’s Bounty: Dark Side mixes the Tactical, Role-playing and Strategy elements developed and published by 1C-Softclub and published by 1C Company for Windows. The game serves as the standalone title in the series of King’s Bounty and features Single-player mode only. It takes place in the fictional world and offers the similar gameplay to previous titles. Unlike previous games, the protagonist belongs to demon, vampire, and etc. factions which are the antagonistic factions. It allows the player to pick up one of three available protagonists such as the Orc Bagyr (a Warrior), the Neoline (belong to Paladin Class), and the Vampire Daert (the Mage). The game offers a chance to the player join dark forces to explore the mysterious places of the world never before navigated by the bounty hunter. After choosing the class, the player needs to explore the environment, fight against enemies, defeat them to earn points and unlock additional items in the game. The player navigates the environments from the isometric perspective, interact with non-player characters and can attack enemies to defeat them. With turn-based combat, and prominent features, King’s Bounty: Dark Side is the wonderful game to play.
#2 Tyranny
Tyranny is a Role-playing and Single-player video game published by Paradox Interactive and developed by Obsidian Entertainment. The plot takes place in the high fantasy world where the evil overlord has dominated world and threatened its inhabitant. You acts as the protagonist named as Fatebinder, who is one of the higher ranked member in the power structure of Kyros. The story revolves around the struggle of the protagonist as he traverse the world to restore the peace after the victory of Kyros, and make decisions while controlling various factions of survivors. You navigates the world from an isometric perspective and the game starts in a board-like gameplay in Conquest Mode that comprises the character creation process. There are different playable characters and each character offers its unique abilities and skills. You need to control the team of survivals and interact with environment to access new areas. Interact with NPCs, and face a massive boss in each area and defeat them to earn points that you can use to unlock additional content and enhance the power of your characters. Tyranny offers core features such as Classic Role-playing Combat, unique Stories, Choices Matter, Original Setting and more.
#3 Torment: Tides of Numenera
Torment: Tides of Numenera is a video game of Role-playing and serves as the spiritual successor to the game Planescape: Torment, released in 1999. The game comes with Single-player mode only and takes place in the fantasy campaign setting called Numenera. According to the story, the world has left in the rough state after the fall of countless civilization. Most of the human lives in the settlements, surrounded by relics. There are different playable classes available such as Wizard, Warrior, Rogue, etc. and the player needs to select one of them to start his quest to rescue the humanity. The game introduces the dialogue tree system and lets the player interact with the environment and non-player characters using dialogue system and explore the environment from the bird-eye view. During the gameplay, the player participates in multiple battles to fight enemies and can slay them using a variety of weapons. Personal Narrative, Relayability, new Story, beautiful World, etc. are core features. Try it out, if you love playing RPGs.
#4 Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is an Action, Board, Role-playing, and Single-player video game by Big Blue Bubble and published by Aspyr for Nintendo DS and other platforms. The game is set in the fantasy-themed world where the player assumes the role of an adventurer who must battle against evil in the set of levels. The player can explore the environment from a first-person viewpoint and experience the unique blend of combat and puzzle gameplay elements. In the game, the player needs to navigate the character through a set of tests, mazes, and trials to achieve goals. At the end of the goal, the player needs to face off evil in his mountain fortress. During the gameplay, the player can freely roam through the landscape and use a blend of weapons, skills, magic, and armor to take down enemies. In the start, the player has an opportunity to choose his hero from available and then embark on an epic journey to take down monsters for points that can be used to unlock additional content.