Stella Deus: The Gate of Eternity
Stella Deus: The Gate of Eternity is a Tactical Role-playing and Single-player video game developed and published by Atlus for PlayStation 2. It comes with the similar gameplay to Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth, in which the player commands six characters through story-driven challenging missions focus on tactical aspects, revolving around assigned equipment, positioning, and more. The story centers on the protagonist named Spero, who is a young man and is captured in the midst of the conflict between different factions. In the game, the player starts his adventure by leading a group of characters both selected during the side events and the story’s course. The player explores the land from an isometric perspective using the point-and-click interface and experience the awesome date system, displaying the time the player takes to get an assigned location. Alongside the missions, the player can visit towns where he is capable of customizing and creating new armor and weapons, sell equipment in exchange for money and more. It takes place in a land of Solum, which is gradually being threatened by Miasma. Stella Deus: The Gate of Eternity includes prominent features, a turn-based fight, and good graphics, and a compelling storyline. Check it out, if you love playing Tactical RPGs.
#1 Luminous Arc 3
Luminous Arc 3 is a Tactical Role-playing video game by Imageepoch and published by Marvelous Entertainment for Nintendo DS. The game features both Single-player and Multiplayer modes, and it takes place in the fantasy world. In the game, witches have ceased to exist, but their legacy lives on through Magi. Two different people are connected with witches, one of them is Sara, who wants to become a legendary witch and another is the Holy Witch Sylvia. The storyline revolves around base gameplay of the previous title of the series with several modifications. According to the plot, the Royal Kingdom had been in peace for many years, and people thanked the Holy Knight and the legendary heroes, which saved the world once. The brutal conflict between the Felicitas and humans has begun. They battle for the power of Eyes that offer magical powers. There are several levels to complete, and the player needs to complete each one by commanding the main character to advance through the game. Similar other Tactical RPGs, the battle fought in a turn-based system. Check it out, and it’ll entertain you.
#2 Luminous Arc
Luminous Arc is a Tactical Role-playing, Online, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Imageepoch and published by Atlus. The game takes place in the fantasy world and uses isometric perspective to navigate the environment. It includes a variety of characters and lets you select one of them to get into the game world where you have to fight against other online players or AI-controlled characters to show off your fighting abilities. Participate in turn-based combat and make your action to increase the meter of flash. You can use Flashpoints to perform strong attack known as Flash Drives and damage the enemy enough to win the match. Each character in the game offers its unique abilities and a set of weapons that can be used to dominate the match. It has a set of levels, and the game becomes challenging as you advanced. Earn points and use them to unlock special skills, upgrades, weapons and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy.
#3 Atlas Reactor
Atlas Reactor mixes up Turn-based Strategy and MOBA elements together and offers a brilliant PvP experience based on that. Atlas Reactor provides plenty of room for both character selection and modifications and lets you control almost everything virtually. The game refers to the main characters as Freelancers and offers amazing 2v2 and 6v6 matches. With a very exciting Champion-driven gameplay, Atlas Reactor features 5 unique abilities for each character and keeps the customization options available until the end. You can alter character’s appearance, abilities, and skills and turn them into more powerful ones as compared to the enemies. Atlas Reactor offers a Turn-based gameplay so between the turns, it offers 20 to 30 second time period for an attack and because of that, it is a pretty fast-paced game to play. Prep, Dash, Move, and Blast are the four main phases of an attack, and you have to manage your attack in the given time or else you’ll get more damage than the opponents. With plenty of Depth in gameplay, unique characters and skill options, fast-paced gameplay and all the blasting MOBA action, Atlas Reactor is one of the best games of this particular genre.
#4 Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Shadowrun: Hong Kong is an amazing Hack and Slash, RPG and Action-Adventure video game by Harebrained Schemes. This game is loaded with superb 3D characters to give massive attraction towards its brilliant game play. The game is set in the era of 2056. You will experience the superb Cyberpunk game play. You have to take the control of the city by going through different combats. The combats in this game are strategic and turn based. You will get different upgrades for improving the skills, abilities and more unique spells to have more epic combats at every stage of the game. Shadowrun: Hong Kong is a great game to play and enjoy. Shadowrun: Hong Kong offers beautiful scenarios and visuals, amazingly addictive gameplay and quite fantastic visuals to enjoy. Do try it out, it’s fun to play and enjoy.
#5 Shadowrun Returns
Shadowrun Returns is a Turn-based Tactical RPG and Sci Fi video game by Harebrained Schemes. The game allows you to choose your character from five different races, such as trolls, orcs, elves, dwarves and humans. You can choose to play as one of the six given classes such as Street Samurai, Decker, Rigger, Mage, Shaman or Physical Adept, or you can play without choosing any class. You can explore the game world by going through the strategic combats while completing different quests. You can customize your character at different stages of the game by getting different upgrades and skills including weapons. You will find different items to use or sell while interacting with the environment. Shadowrun Returns is a superb game to play and enjoy.
#6 Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Shadowrun: Dragonfall is a super engaging Action-Adventure, Cyberpunk-RPG and Hack and Slash video game by Harebrained Schemes. This epic game provides with an amazing strategy based game-play that lets you experience a wonderful mix up of all the above mentioned elements. The game is about the return of the dark magic that unleashed powerful mythical creatures and among them was the one mighty Dragon named as Feuerschwinge who emerged from the mountains of Germany and brought heavy destruction and chaos with it. German Forces kept on fighting off the Feuerschwinge and after four months of heavy fights and destruction they finally shot it down and that was called The Dragonfall. Years later in 2054, Germany becomes the hub of tech and the population is now doubled as the Elves and Trolls have joined the populace, giant corporations have corrupted the Govts. and now Germany is in the control of Flux State after the heavy anarchy and chaos. With a lot of new threats and you as a Shadow Runner, the Flux State hires you to go against the re-surfacing Feuerschwinge, eliminate it and restore the order. Would you accept the challenge? Shadowrun: Dragonfall offers brilliant realistic visauls and sounds, a well-written story and an immersive game-play tho enjoy.
#7 Xenonauts
Xenonauts is a Sci-Fi Turn-based Tactical-RPG and Strategy video game that offers a brilliant gameplay with similarities to XCOM series games. The game draws heavy inspiration from the Original X-Com and is set in Alternate timeline of Earth where you take on the role of the Commander of Xenonauts, an organization leading the resistance against the invasion. Your main task is to reorganize your army units, collect the funding for various projects, launch numerous missions to intercept enemy UFos and complete the game objectives by defeating the enemies and capturing all of their ships plus their base. Xenonauts offers similar mechanics to its predecessor and the original game of the series X-Com and allows you to enjoy leading epic missions against the enemies, show off your superior Tactical and Strategy skills, engage in epic combats and enjoy an immersive game-play. With all the refined aesthetics of X-Com, visually stunning and quite brilliant game-play plus the addictive nature, Xenonauts is a wonderful game to play.
#8 Valkyria Chronicles
Valkyria Chronicles is a fantastic and unique Action, Tactical-RPG and Turn-based Strategy video game. The game takes you to a World War 2 type of Era in Europe where two most powerful and tactically advanced Factions are raging over the Control. Valkyria Chronicles throws you right in the middle of the conflict after your town gets destroyed and tasks you to save what’s left by simply recruiting individuals like yourself and going against the responsible of all the chaos. The game gets more exciting with the wonderful Turn-base combat and RPG elements and lets you pace further under the Command Mode. Your task is to go against the enemies as a team, destroy enemy installations and defensive structures, engage into amazingly chaotic battles and finally eliminate all the enemies. With every mission cleared, you’ll get money and experience points that you can use to buy upgrades and stuff. With a marvelous setting, well-written storyline, great visuals and an addictive game-play, Valkyria Chronicles is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#9 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.
#10 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.
#11 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.
#12 Wasteland 2
Wasteland 2 is Tactical Action, RPG and Post-Apocalyptic video game set in an alternate history. Wasteland 2 is the first ever Sequel to the 1988’s popular Wasteland video game and it offers more enhanced game mechanics, graphics and core gameplay etc. The game is based on a Nuclear War that started when a cluster of Meteors hit various Nuclear sites. A huge Nuclear war started out that almost totally devastated the world. The day when all this happened, some of the U.S. Army Engineers were working in a desolate Desert deep into the Southwestern region, minutes after the Cataclysmic event they went into hiding in the prison they were setting up for the Death Row prisoners. The Soldiers sought shelter in the prison and when the time was right, they got back up to the surface and started searching for the Survivors, who ever was found, teamed up with them and all of the survivors formed the Desert Rangers, years after the Nuclear Holocaust. Wasteland 2 starts off 15 years after the events of Wasteland and connects the story to its predecessor in a way that it literally feels like the same. Wasteland 2 is a kind of strategic game that allows you to play as anyone of the available characters, Control a total number of seven characters (Three main and 4 NPCs), Explore the game world, face some of the worst ever mutants and nightmarish creatures, fight them off with all the available weapons such as guns, melee weapons and stuff, earn experience points, develop new skills, get health updates, and complete a number of quests, etc. With all the amazingly bashing Combats, hardcore Action and Thrill, Wasteland 2 offers a fantastic Story-driven gameplay, unique characters and fabulous visuals to enjoy. If you haven’t yet played this game, try it out and enjoy all the Post-Apocalyptic fun.
#13 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.
#14 Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game (most commonly known as Fallout) is an RPG (Role Playing Game) open-world single-player video game set in an apocalyptic era in a devastated alternate reality. The game features the protagonist as an inhabitant of a nuclear shelter known as Vault. The player is tasked to find out the water chip to save many people from dying of thrust. The protagonist gets 150 days to find the water chip till the water ends. If he is failed to find out the chip, mutants will attack the vaults and kill everybody.
Because of short options, the protagonist joins the mutant army remaining in disguise, and keeps searching for the water chip. He finally approaches a possible chip location and finds it in the hands of the master. The player must kill the master after long-lasting combat, destroys the whole mutant facility, and returns to the vault. The interesting storyline keeps you tied up to the gaming station for hours.
#15 Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel is another big name in the Turn-based Tactical-RTS and Action-RPG genres. The game is set in an apocalyptic era in Fallout Universe and focuses on the story of a squad in the fictitious Brotherhood of Steel. The game allows you to be a member of the Squad, go on some amazing missions to annihilate your enemies in tactical and strategy-based battles using the original Fallout Tactics and strategies. Fallout tactics: Brotherhood of Steel offers multiple characters (Humans, Ghouls, Deathclaws, Dogs, Quartermaster, Mechanics, Yeomen, and Medics etc.) to choose between, a lot of NPCs to interact with, amazing campaigns and missions to complete and ultimately enjoy every minute spent on this brilliant game. With amazingly catchy game plot, great story-line and visuals along with a brilliantly immersive game-play, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel is one of the best Tactical RTS game to play and enjoy.
#16 Dead State: Reanimated
Dead State: Reanimated is a narrative driven, Indie, survival RPG and Strategic video game by Doublebear productions. The game is set in central Texas on the collapse of civilization and the dawn of the undead apocalypse. You have to explore the game world by going through very serious turn based tactical combat system for the hunt of food and shelter to survive. You have to protect your shelter at any cost in order to survive and to explore the game world with outstanding game play. You will experience different characters in the game like Medic, Sniper, Grenadier, Guard and much more, that will make very challenging fights to deal with. You will experience melee combats along with bow and arrow fight with additional shooting element to enjoy the brilliant game play. Dead State: Reanimated is a superb game with enhanced graphics to have fun with amazing game play.
#17 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.
#18 Divinity: Original Sin
Divinity: Original Sin is a marvelous Single-Player, Action-Adventure and a Cooperative Fantasy RPG video game by Larian Studios. The game lets you be a pair (Cooperative) of two Source Hunters who are basically the members of a faction that is destined to eliminate dangerous magic named The Source that with the help of The Sorcerers is swallowing up the realm on a very high pace. Your task is to gather up your party of individuals like you and go on to the most epic quests and adventures to hunt down the Sorcerers and finally eradicate the Dark magic The Source. To achieve the goals, you must get into the brutal combats, explore an open world, join your friends in a Co-Op multiplayer game-play and enjoy this cool game to the limits. With wonderfully created mechanics, enhanced graphics, unique character customization options, regular upgrades and a huge pile of DLC (Downloadable Content), Divinity: Original Sin is a wonder.
#19 Battle World: Kronos
Battle World: kronos is an MMO and Turn-Based Real time Strategy and a war-based video game that lands you into a militaristic setting. The game allows you to engage yourself into campaigns, skirmishes and wars against your enemies from the Yerla Faction. You get to control your own troop units, train them and use the most sophisticated weaponry against your enemies. Battle World: kronos lets you explore the game world, assault your enemies using transporting vehicles, Air Support and via troops, seize their properties and loot their resources etc. You can play the game online with your friends in multiplayer gaming mode and make alliances to defeat your enemy with the greatest force, tactical advantage and might. Battle World: kronos is a great strategy and war based MMO video game to play and enjoy. try it out if you haven’t yet and enjoy the ultimate fun.