Sakura Wars
Sakura Wars is an Action, RPG, and Single-player video game developed by Sega for PlayStation. Throughout the gameplay, the player takes on the role of a protagonist named Seijuro Kamiyama, and the main mission is to fight demons in the Combat Revue World Games. While inspecting the world, the player views the environment from the third-person perspective.
The game features a traditional Live and Interactive Picture System where the player has to select an option from the available ones within the specified limit. A smartphone is there that allows the player to see the map of the game and converse with NPCs. The Combat Revue World Games contains three different rounds where the player can select two characters.
Every character has health points and magic points where they will get decrease as the opponents attack the character. The core features of the game are Third-person Perspective, Battles, NPC Interaction, and Health Points.
#1 Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is an Adventure, RPG, Tactical, and Single-player video game developed by Intelligent Systems Koei Tecmo. It serves as the sixth main title in the Fire Emblem series and offers the same gameplay to the previous ones. Throughout the gameplay, the player gets control over a character where the main mission is to teach at the Garreg Mach Monastery, serve as a hub.
The game contains story-based battles, and the player has to interact with the students and staff in those battles. The game features free time events where the player can communicate with students and build up relationships with them. The player can make a relation with actions and dialogue choices that will impact a character’s Support level.
If the relationship is strong, then it could be changed into the two couples after a story-based skip event. The game also features a classic mode where the characters who fall in battle will attain permanent death.
#2 Record of Grancrest War
Record of Grancrest War is an Adventure, RPG, and Single-player video game developed by Fujimi Shobo. Numerous years prior, the world was under Chaos, a leader of numerous evil highlights where the focus disturbs the laws of nature and prompts the evil spirits and cause natural events to come called the scourge of Chaos.
The player takes the job of the Lord, the protagonist who can utilize the seal and guard individuals from Chaos. The game has several characters such as Theo Cornaro, Siluca Meletes, Irvin, Aishela, Moreno Dortous, Priscilla Farnese, and much more having different appearances and attributes.
Irvin is a demon seal holder, which gives him extreme fighting capabilities and one of the strongest ones having the title of Chamberlain. Aishela serves as the protagonist’s friend and a top-class fighter having various skills. Jump into the adventure, defeat the demons, and serve the world. The significant features of the game are Several Characters, Demons, and Combat.
#3 Valkyria Chronicles II
Valkyria Chronicles II is an Action, RPG, Tactical, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by Sega. It serves as the sequel to the Valkyria Chronicles and offers the same gameplay to the previous one. The game focuses on the military academy, where the player as a cadet has to rescue a campaign by a ruthless rebel group.
While inspecting the world, the player views the environment from the third-person perspective. The game has two modes, such as action and command mode, having different gameplay. When the player has depleted their accessible command points or volunteers to pass without utilizing every one of them, the phase of the player closes and the enemy phase starts. This process continues until the player or enemy fulfills the fight’s victory conditions.
The game offers several character classes where each one has significant attributes such as Scouts, Shocktroopers, Engineers, and Lancers. Customization includes clothes, name, gender, and much more where the player can create the appearance desirably.
#4 Gunparade March
Gunparade March is an Action-Adventure and Single-player video game developed by Alfa System. Throughout the gameplay, the player takes on the role of a protagonist named Atsushi Hayami, who has to fight against aliens to rescue the world. At the end of WWII, an alien force attacked the earth and started slaughtering humanity.
Many heroes tried to stop the forces, but all in vain, then the government has chosen a student from the high school of Humanoid Walking Tanks. During the adventure, the player is not alone but a girl named Mai is there for the protagonist’s help. She is a shy girl but the player has a deep interest in the girl and wanted to be married.
The player equips strong abilities and skills to take the rivals down. Jump into the adventure, fight off aliens, show love for Mai, and save the world. The significant features of the game are Two Characters, Third-person Perspective, and Addictive Gameplay.
#5 Wargroove
Wargroove is a Single-player and Multiplayer Turn-based Tactics video game developed and published by Chucklefish for Multiple Platforms. The game lets the player experience the Nintendo Wars-style tactical gameplay, in which he needs to explore maps and battle enemies. In the game, the player needs to select to take control of one of fifteen powerful commanders, each has its unique campaign, personality, and motivations. The Online Multiplayer supports Co-op and PvP game type. The campaign editing tools will let the player build his maps, and there’s an overworld editor that can be used for linking various missions together. The game takes place on the island continent of Aurania. According to the plot, the island was ruled by two massive nations such as Silmor and Cacophony. While playing the game, the player needs to command his team, explore the land from an isometric viewpoint and then lead his one of many characters to attack opposing team in an attempt to eliminate their members to advance through the game. The battle will be fought in a turn-based system.
#6 Valkyria Chronicles 4
Valkyria Chronicles 4 is a Tactical Role-playing and Single-player video game created by Sega CS3 and published by Sega for Multiple Platforms. The game mainly deals with strategy genre in the similar style to the first three video games in the series, and it comes with a new soldier class called the Grenadier, who is capable of firing mortar rounds at foes. If teamed up soldiers are available to offer battlefield information, they can release fire without being discovered by hostile enemies. When the soldier in the army of the player is on the verge of death, there is an opportunity that the new system known as Brave, will be activated. The game introduces the fantastic storyline, revolving around Claude Wallace and his friends named Kai Shulen and Raz, who recently joined the Federation army to battle the Empire in the 2nd European War, both to defend their country of Gallia and struggle to avenge an attack on their hometown. Valkyria Chronicles 4 includes tactical gameplay, smooth controls, and brilliant graphics.
#7 Persona 5
Persona 5 combines the elements of Role-playing and Social Simulation developed and published by Altus. The game supports Single-player mode only and it is the sixth title in the series of Persona, which is the part of the marvelous franchise of Megami Tensei. The game takes place in the fictional Tokyo, and centers on the protagonist, who has transferred to the fictional Shujin Academy after being put on probation. During school days, the protagonist and his other students awaken to their special powers, become the masked vigilantes and navigate the stunning Metaverse world to steal ill from the adults’ hearts. The game offers the amazing gameplay like its previous installments. It incorporates role-playing, dungeon crawling and social simulation elements. The player can take on the role of the protagonist and his ultimate task is to explore the environment from third-person perspective, interact with NPCs and complete a set of quests to progress through the game. The game rewards the player with experience points and can be used to unlocked further content in the game. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#8 Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light is an RPG, Tactical, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by Intelligent Systems. Throughout the gameplay, the player serves as a protagonist named Prince Marth, who has to regain his throne from the evil sorcerer and his masters.
The gameplay follows the tactical battles that take place on the grid-based maps and the defeated units will attain permanent death. The player will get to advance linearly and can unlock the maps by following the game’s requirement. Each playable character represents a specific class and each class has significant weaknesses and strengths.
While battling, each of the unit’s class affects their movement and strength on the battlefield. It is a turn-based battle where the player, as well as the enemy, has a limited number of units and takes turns. As the player gains over 100 experience points, the health and level of the player increases.
#9 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.
#10 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.