Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue/Red Rescue Team
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue/Red Rescue Team is an Adventure, Roguelike, and Single-player video game developed by Chunsoft. Throughout the game, the player serves as a hero who turned into a Pokémon and has to perform different moves. The game has sixteen Pokémons such as Treecko, Torchic, Machop, Cubone, Charmander, and others.
The player has to select one Pokémon and jumps into the mission-based adventure with many jobs. Along with missions, the player has to complete story events that include rescuing Pokémon, delivering items, and escorting clients. The player receives rewards and rescue points, which increase a team’s rank, after successfully completing a job.
The game’s objective is very simple such as either to finish a job and find the exit in every level. In the dungeon, the player may face wild Pokémon that battle with the player’s team. The player must come up with the best skills and Pokémon in these turn-based battles. The game’s core features are Turn-based Battles, Sixteen Pokémon, Simple Tasks, Missions, and a Points System.
#1 World of Dragon Warrior: Torneko: The Last Hope
World of Dragon Warrior: Torneko: The Last Hope is an RPG, Casual, and Single-player video game developed by Chunsoft. It is the second game in the Mystery Dungeon series and offers similar gameplay to the original one. Throughout time, the player assumes the role of a protagonist named Torneko, who has to explore the items’ mazes.
The player controls the character from an overhead perspective that is convenient to beware of the dangers. The character can attack with close-ranged weapons like swords and long-ranged weapons like bow and arrow. The player can summon magic spells using a wand or scroll. Identical to the first one, Torneko also has a hunger meter, which decreases health if he does not eat bread.
During the exploration, the player can discover treasure and magic items that offer upgrades. The player has to engage in turn-based combats where the ruthless monsters make the player’s life hard. The game’s core features are Overhead Angle, Turn-based Battles, Simple Missions, Numerous Weapons, 2D Graphics, and Treasure Boxes.
#2 Chocobo’s Dungeon 2
Chocobo’s Dungeon 2 is an Adventure, RPG, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by Square Co. it is the sequel to the Chocobo’s Dungeon and offers the same gameplay as the previous one. Throughout the time, the player explores the mazes that are randomly-generated and offer certain portions. Each time the player enters the same dungeon, the maze path will be different to ensure the complexity.
It is a two-dimensional game where the player can view the character from an overhead angle. Many items the player can discover through progression. In the beginning, the character can only carry a few items, and if he dies, the player loses all collected items and must restart.
As the game progresses, the player can rent storage space that ensures the protection of the items after the character’s death. The player has equipment for armor and weapons to lay down the monsters. The player can cast magic spells that must get unlocked first. The player finds some recycled boxes that allow him to combine items and get a newly produced item.
#3 F1 2019
F1 2019 is an Adventure, Sports, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by Codemasters for multiple platforms. The twelfth installment in the Formula One series offers the same gameplay as the last ones. Throughout the game, the player serves as a racer where the main mission is to compete against other racers on the tracks and show his skills.
While racing, the player views the environment from the first-person and third-person perspective. The game features all the teams, drivers, and over twenty circuits from the previous seasons. The game has included new players such as George Russell, Lando Norris, and Alexander Albon. All the players can customize their characters accordingly.
The game has multiple racing tracks where he can improve his various skills like drifting, cutting, edging, etc. The player has given a specific number of laps that he has to complete to be on the top of the board. The game keeps track of the player who has won most races, and the player attempts to gain first place.
#4 Elysion
Elysion is a Strategy, Management, and Single-player Business Simulation developed by Deep Thought and published by Magic Bytes. The game takes place in the historical places of Europe in 390 A.D. As the Western Empire attempts to repel the migrating Germanic tribes escaping from the incursion of the Huns into Europe, most of its provinces are taking down finding independence. In the game, the player assumes the role of the ruler of one of this independent province, and his ultimate goal is threefold such as make his country livable for his people, survive politically until the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D., and build an empire of his own by dominating other provinces. The player challenges are first foreign and secondly domestic. The player explores the environment from a third-person perspective and struggles to keep his people happy by offering the best services. To expand the kingdom, the player must battle against opponents, take down their forces, and conquer their land.
#5 Brandish 2: The Planet Buster
Brandish 2: The Planet Buster is an Action Role-playing and Single-player video game takes place in the fantasy-themed world developed by Nihon Falcom Corp. and published by Koei. The game continues the storyline that was unfolded in the first title, depicting the events that appeared three years after the brutal, evil king was taken down in his lost kingdom. In the game, the player assumes the role of the protagonist, a young warrior named Ares, who equips with a magical weapon, the mighty sword known as the Planet Buster. According to the plot, one day, while traversing through the desert, the player is abducted by Karl, a warlock who is after throwing the protagonist into his underground prison. The objective of the player is to command the protagonist and explore the massive dungeons to find a way out. The game offers the Action-RPG gameplay with a heavy emphasis on dungeon crawling. During the gameplay, the player can battle against enemies in real-time battle, manipulate the rotating dungeons, casting spells, and struggle to solve puzzles.
#6 Milandra
Milandra is the unique blend of Role-playing and Rogue-like elements, and the game supports Single-player mode, taking place in the procedurally generated world. The game mainly revolves around dungeon crawling elements and the player explores the land where the game is set from a top-down perspective. The game randomizes its floors and item drops. As the player navigates the tower, the enemies of the game become powerful, and the player will require advanced weapons, items, and equipment as well as some measure of luck and strategy to survive. The story of the game concerns the wizard named as Shylock, who is responsible for capturing the Prince Milandra by shifting into a crow. The brave hero takes the responsibility to save the kidnapped Prince from the tower, but to fulfil the objective, the player must explore the labyrinthine and monster-filled floors. Milandra includes prominent features such as Several Levels, Leveling System, Top-down Gameplay, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.
#7 Baroque
Baroque is a Rogue-like, Role-playing, and Single-player video game developed by Sting Entertainment and published by Atlus USA. The objective of the game is to command the nameless character through the Neuro Tower to the 1st floor. The game takes place in the procedurally generated land, where the majority of the layouts of the floors of the tower change each time the player ventures inside. The player starts the game outside of the tower with no items or points. Before getting into the tower, the player is presented with an Angelic Rifle, the modern weapon that the player uses to take down the massive monster with a single shot. During the gameplay, the player can find swords, items, and equipment scattered across the tower at random and by taking down enemies grants the player experience points. The player uses the experience to gain new levels and become powerful. Baroque includes prominent features such as Treasure Chests, Levelling System, Experience Points, and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#8 Evolution: The World of Sacred Device
Evolution: The World of Sacred Device is a 1999 Rogue-like and Role-playing video game created by Sting and published by Ubisoft. The game has a Single-player mode, and it mainly deals with dungeon crawling gameplay where the storyline revolves around the adventures of Mag Launcher. According to the plot, Mag Launcher and his companions can use Cyframes, the advanced technology found in ancient ruins. The battle in the game is non-random and appears whenever the protagonist touches the enemy. The game uses the 3D graphics and lets the player engage himself in the turn-based battle, with each combatant having its own personality. Mag Launcher, Linear Cannon, Gre Nad, Pepper Box, Chain Gun, etc. are prominent characters of the game. The plot of the game starts with two friends named as Linear and Mag, on an epic treasure hunt. When both character return home, they found a word that Prince Eugene desires to talk to them. After that, they go to encounter the Prince, who asks about the device known as Evolutia.
#9 Eternal Quest
Eternal Quest is a Fantasy-themed, Role-playing and Single-player video game played from an isometric perspective, developed by Tamsoft and published by Midas Interactive Entertainment, Ltd. The game takes the player in the world of swords, maze-like underground lairs, in which the player has to take down several vicious monsters, gather better equipment, and earn gold to advance. It is set in the dungeon to contain over fifty challenging levels in the Story mode, and the game is about shogun who summons the champion to rescue the shogunate from an evil. The game offers the similar gameplay to the Rogue-like video game Nethack and revolves around the turn-based element. The player controls his character from an isometric perspective with an aim to go deeper into the dungeon to face off brutal monsters and defeat them to earn points and more. It becomes difficult to play as the player advances through it. Eternal Quest includes core features, superb mechanics, and brilliant visuals. Try it out, if you love playing Rogue-like video games.