Fate/EXTELLA LINK
Fate/EXTELLA LINK developed by XSEED Games is a Hack-n-Slash, Action-Adventure, and Single-player video game. It is the third main installment in the Fate/EXTRA series and offers similar gameplay to the previous releases. During the gameplay, the player takes on the role of an unknown protagonist and gets engaged in combats against enemies with the help of spirits called servants.
The game features customization of the character that includes name, gender, clothes, and much more. The player can make the servants powerful through the use of form that changes their appearance and weapons to take the enemies down easily. The game has sixteen playable characters categorized into different classes.
Saber, Archer, Lancer, Caster, Assassin, Rider, and Berserker are the main classes with different abilities and attributes. The player can use special attacks such as Extella Maneuver that deals with severe damage to enemies. The game comes up with a mode called Area Supremacy Battle that allows Servants to attack sectors and restore Regime Matrices.
#1 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.
#2 Bravely Default
Bravely Default is a marvelous Nintendo 3DS specific Turn-based Tactical-RPG video game by Silicone Studios and Square Enix. The game focuses on Turn-based combats and features four main characters and heroes of Luxendarc: The Wind Vestal, allows them to explore, go to quests and fight off the enemies by engaging into some of the most epic combats ever. Your task as the protagonist Tiz, is to fight against the Alternis warriors and defeat them in every quest to complete the game objectives. Bravely Default offers equally equipped enemies, an amazing and unique environment, surreal game world, amazingly action-packed quests, combats and battles and an immersive engaging game-play that will definitely leave you spell bound for quite some time. Bravely Default is a great tactical-RPG to play and enjoy. Do try it out for a brilliant Action and Tactical-RPG gaming experience.
#3 Fire Emblem: Awakening
Fire Emblem: Awakening is a Single and Multiplayer Tactical RPG video game. Set on the Continent of Archanea, this 13th installment of the Fire Emblem series provides with a similar game-play and mechanics as its predecessors, focuses on tactical combats and allows you to be a soldier of the kingdom of Ylisse, pace under the command of Chrom and defend Ylisse against Risen and the Hostile nation of Plegia. With some of the most epic Combats, Exploration and Quests, Fire Emblem: Awakening is no doubt a wonderful game to play. Fire Emblem: Awakening allows you to use your best strategic skills, and tactics to reform the whole Ylissian army, make new combat strategies and eventually help the Prince win the epic war against all the hostile entities. Fire Emblem: Awakening is packed with great action oriented and turn based game-play, a great story and superb visuals. Try it out and you’ll love it for sure. Fire Emblem: Awakening offers state of the art visuals, an amazing storyline and a typically engaging and quite immersive gameplay.
#4 Final Fantasy Tactics
Final Fantasy Tactics is an RPG game developed by Square Enix. It offers amazingly addictive and fascinating gameplay packed with essentials and a unique combat system. Set in the fictitious medieval era kingdom “Ivalice,” the story revolves around a high-born cadet named Ramaza Beoulve who gets trapped into the most brutal conflict of the time, The Lion War, between two high-class Nobel factions. The war intensifies as the lust for the throne clouds the judgment of the faction heads, and a cruel era of blood and gore starts up.
The protagonist gets destined to find out the causes of the war, and in pursuit of completing the objectives, he becomes a crucial part of the War itself. With an amazing Plot and Story, great action-oriented game-play, and an amazing Medieval Era setting, Final Fantasy Tactics takes you to a totally different side of this specific genre. Final Fantasy Tactics is a wonderful game. Most of you will be familiar with this title, but what about all those similar games packed with almost Final Fantasy Tactics like elements, game-plays, and stuff.
#5 Massive Chalice
Massive Chalice is an Action, Adventure and Turn-based Tactical RPG and Strategy video game by Double Fine Productions. The game takes place on an Epic timeline and lets you be an Immortal Ruler who is destined to lead massive armies of heroes, forge epic matrimonial events to strengthen up the Bloodlines and fight against a 300 years old mystic enemy named as Cadence. With all the strategic elements, Epic battles against the enemies, great heroes and a wonderful medieval era setting, Unique Turn based combats, great weaponry, and Tactics, Massive Chalice takes you to a totally different and one of its kind gaming experience. Massive Chalice offers a truly very well-written storyline, brilliant visuals, loads of fantastic upgrades, DLC and an immersive game-play to enjoy. Try it out for a brilliant Action, Strtegy and Tactical RPG experience and enjoy all the fun.
#6 Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 is a wonderful Adventure based Tactical RPG and Strategy video game by Atlus. The game is set in Japan and features a group of students who make a pact to summon demons and fight against the mystic creatures devastating the country. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 lets you be one of the students and control a demon named Tamer and lead your friends, fight against the evil forces and free Japan from their wrath. With amazing game-play, a well-written story, lot of upgrades, cool visuals and a unique combat system, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 is a brilliant game to play and enjoy. Try it out and you’ll love it.
#7 Advance Wars: Dual Strike
Advance Wars: Dual Strike is one of the best games of this specific genre and offers an amazing Action filled gameplay experience. This brilliant game offers unique Tactical-RPG and Strategy oriented game-play in which you act as either Jake or Rachel. As the main protagonist, Advance Wars: Dual Strike lets you be the commander of your forces and go against the recently returned Black Hole Army and its commander Von Bolt. Your task is to go on amazing 28 campaign missions, use your best strategies and tactics against the army of Commander Von Bolt, defeat them and capture their land and eventually grow your reign. Advance Wars: Dual Strike lets you fight on two main fronts, deploy your troops in strategically accurate locations, repel the attacks and charge on enemy forces, use all the available weapons and tactics to overcome the enemy outbreak and enjoy a unique gaming experience. With a number of campaigns, challenging situations, and multiplayer encounters, amazing new characters, well-written story-line and an immersive game-play, Advance Wars: Dual Strike is a brilliant game to play and enjoy.
#8 Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness
Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness is another brilliant Tactical, Strategy and RPG video game by Nippon Ichi Software. The game is a direct sequel to Disgaea: Hour of Darkness and is set in the vastness of Netherworlds where Laharl gets crowned as an Overlord after the death of his father. Your objective is to take on the character of Laharl and go against all the demons who want to throw you out of your throne. Former King’s Vassals (The Kirchevskoy Group) are trying hard to put somebody else on your place and you must ruin their plans along with their allies. Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness provides with an amazing Tactical Strategy based game-play in which you are required to use your best skills to crush the enemies and stay strong on your throne. With a very well-written story, great visuals and all the great elements together, Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness is a great game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#9 Marvel: Avenger Alliance Tactics
Marvel: Avenger Alliance Tactics is great Action, Tactical Strategy and RPG (Role Playing Game) video game. With a great Futuristic Setting, great weaponry and advanced tactics, the game lets you take on the role of S.H.I.E.L.D Commander and gather up a team of Super Heroes to defend the earth against terrestrial and extra-terrestrial threats. You can include Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Loki, Taskmaster and countless others to your Super Hero team. Your basic task is to defend the earth so you better use your best skills, strategies, combat techniques and all the super tactics you have got and you must defeat the enemy at every step. Marvel: Avenger Alliance Tactics provides with a Marvel: Avenger Alliance type game-play and mechanics, characters etc. and lets you get to a totally different side of Tactical RPG and strategy genre. Packed With wonderful visuals, and amazing controls this game will surely be fun for you.
#10 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.
#11 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.
#12 Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten by Nippon Ichi Software is a marvelous Action oriented Tactical-RPG and Strategy video game. This 4th inclusion to the series features Valvatorez as the player character. Valvatorez once was a Blood Sucking vampire but he stopped drinking blood nearly 400 years ago. Because of the unlawful and inhumane actions of the Government, Valvatorez plans a rebellion and reaches to Netherworld with his companion Fenrich to win the support of the masses, makes allies (Humans, Monsters, Angels etc.), attacks the government and defeats them after a series of huge bloody battles, destroys the source of energy for demons and ultimately save the Netherworld. With amazing combats, great weapons, special abilities, wonderful story, great visuals and an immersive game-play, Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten is one of the best Tactical RPG and Strategy video game to play and enjoy.
#13 Project X Zone
Project X Zone is a great Action, Tactical, Strategy and RPG video game developed solely for Nintendo 3DS. The game lets you command over several units in a battlefield on a grid. Each of the Unit is based up on two member team and another solo combat assisting character. To pace on with the story, you must complete the game objectives by fighting against the enemies and staying alive. Project X Zone allows you to use your best Defensive and Offensive Strategies and Tactics while being engaged in a combat. Enemies are also divided into same type of units and they can attack you by using the techniques just like the ones you are laced up with so you must counter attack with best response and stay alive till the end of a mission or quest. Project X Zone offers great visuals, an engaging game-play in a wonderful environment.
#14 Rainbow Moon
Rainbow Moon by SideQuest Studios is a Tactical RPG (Role Playing Game) and Strategy video game with similarities to Final Fantasy Tactics. With a Dungeon Crawling theme, the game allows you to explore a huge game world, use your best strategic and tactical skills in to the most epic battles with enemies. Rainbow Moon is a marvelous combination of Action oriented game-play, a unique story, superb visuals, six unique characters, and a unique urn-based Strategy combat System. As Namoris throws you away to a distant land by the use of Magical Portals and Gates, your task is to find your way back to your own world, find Namoris and kill him in a Duel. The land where you are exiled to, is packed up tightly with countless monsters, you must survive by fighting them off or you’ll perish. You must use your skills and strategize your actions in order to achieve the objectives and complete the game. With all the wonderful things, Rainbow Moon is a cool game to play and enjoy.
#15 Record of Agarest War 2
Record of Agarest War 2 is a wonderful Tactical-RPG video game by Idea Factory and Red Entertainment. The game lets you be the Protagonist Weiss who wakes up with no memory of his past and reaches to a woman named Eva, the Agent of the Divine. She tells Weiss that he has committed a grievous sin of killing an innocent and he now has to turn into a Vessel in order to resurrect the one he killed. On the other hand, the world around you is slowly being engulfed into darkness by a mysterious blinding light and destruction on a massive level is on its way to erase the whole continent. You as the vessel have to go against all the dark forces, Demons and enemies, neutralize the threat to the realm and finally resurrect the boy you killed. Record of Agarest War 2 offers a great storyline with wonderfully created visuals and an immersive game-play. Record of Agarest War 2 is one of the best games of this specific genre. You should totally try it out and enjoy the ultimate fun.
#16 Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor is a part of a widely popular game series and offers a brilliant mix-up of Action-RPG, Tactical Strategy and Turn-based elements. The game offers multiple endings and multiple paths to choose and enjoy the game to the fullest. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor takes you to the Modern day Tokyo where it sets you up into the character of a teenage boy who along with his friends is caught in a heavy conflict between the humans and Demons. You can choose sides and once you have chosen the side, you can act as a leader who is determined to devastate the opposing forces by the use of his tactical and strategic approach. You can lead your squad all the way to enemy installations, destroy or capture them, push the devils out of the populated areas and defeat them with all the courage you muster. Sword-based fighting, exploration and interaction with objects plus the online players and AIs makes this cool game even more thrilling. With a wonderful story, brilliant setting and an immersive game-play, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor is one of the best games to play and enjoy.
#17 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.
#18 Shining Force
Shining Force is a great Fantasy Turn-based Tactics, Strategy and RPG video game bu Climax Entertainment. The game is set in the Kingdom of Guardiana and allows you to be a Hero named as Max who embarks on a journey to stop the Evil Kane along with his Evil hordes of minions from resurrecting the Dark Dragon. If Kane resurrects the Dark Dragon, he’ll be able to consume the whole realm, so you must stop him before it’s too late. In order to complete the objectives, you must also recruit individuals like you and eventually create the Shining Force who then with the combined powers of all the Heroes will be able to defeat the Evil Kane. Game world Exploration, Interaction with the NPCs, Treasure Hunt, epic battles and Duels with the enemies, using upgrades to enhance your skills and abilities etc. are the most amazing and quite entertaining features of this brilliant game. With an amazing classic RPG, wonderful quests, eye-catching visuals, great story and an engaging game-play, Shining Force is one of the best games to play. Do try it out.
#19 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.
#20 Master of Monsters
Master of Monsters is a Single-player Turn-based Strategy video game developed and published by SystemSoft for Multiple Platforms. The game takes place in the grid-based map and lets the player summon powerful monsters and move them around the board to capture the towers and take down the opponents. However, moves are focused on a hexagonal map structure, such that every square on the board is adjacent to six other tiles. The notable features of the game are a set of massive monsters, upgrading units, and more. The main focus of the game is on strategic elements, despite the fantasy characters that imply the role-playing elements. The player explores the land from an isometric perspective, and his main objective is to take down enemies and be the last on the board to win. As the game advances, the difficulty level will increase, and it comes with powerful monsters. There are lots of challenging levels, and in each one, the player has a chance to polish his skills to become the master.
#21 Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War
Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War is a Tactical Role-playing and Single-player video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. The game introduces challenging gameplay, and it takes place in the grid-based map where the player will experience the turn-based combat. It is the fourth marvelous title in the series of Fire Emblem and is set on the continent of Jugdral. The whole continent is spanning eight different territories created by the Twelve Crusaders, an ancient group of legendary soldiers who ended the rule of the dragon loptyr with divine help. However, the story unfolds the two generations such as the first generation revolves around the Grannvalian Prince Sigurd, while the second follows his son named Seliph as he works his way to take down the cult and avenge his beloved father. The main gameplay centers on the traditional system of Tactical battle in Fire Emblem, taking place on grid-based maps while including the weapons and support systems. With immersive gameplay, superb graphics, and crisp visuals, Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War offers an excellent game to play.