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.
#1 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.
#2 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.
#3 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.
#4 Avalon Code
Avalon Code is an Action, Role-playing, Fantasy-based, and Isometric video game created by Matrix Software and Published by Marvelous Entertainment. The game uses the mechanics that enables you to affect the world surrounding you using the Prophecy’s book. To get into the game world, you have to select your gender and character. It takes place in the fantasy world filled with monsters, plants, and more. Explore the game world and record different elements with the book by performing a Code Scan. It has a series of levels filled with different challenges. Navigate dungeons and fight against monsters and slaughter those using different weapons and items. The game rewards you with experience points as you complete the objectives and can use the points to unlock further content in the game. Interact with NPCs and save your world from devastation. With detailed environment, addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant story, Avalon Code is the best game to play and enjoy.
#5 Atelier Annie: Alchemist of Sera Island
Atelier Annie: Alchemist of Sera Island is an Action, Role-playing, and Single-player Simulation created by Amazing for Nintendo DS. It offers a superb story, in which the protagonist named Annie was lived in a town situated within the fictional city. The game combines the elements of Strategy and Role-playing. According to the story, the protagonist falls into sleep and imagine about becoming famous one day by marriage up. The parents of her were ancient and talked about the grandfather of Annie who is a great alchemist. After some time, they decide to send her to a tropical island named Sera to participate in a resort. It mainly focuses on quests rather than battle and interaction. It has a variety of levels, and each level offers some quests. Get into the role of the protagonist, explore the game world, fight against foes in simple turn-based combat and earn experience points. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, exciting story, and wonderful controls, Atelier Annie Alchemist of Sera Island is a superb game to play and enjoy.
#6 Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies is an Action, Role-playing, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Level-5 and published by Nintendo. The game introduces new local multiplayer mode and the capability with Wi-fi Connection. The game focuses on the spawning of foes, rather than encounters. It combines the elements of traditional role-playing, level-based system, and turn-based combat. The game cast the player in the role of the protagonist and tasked him to explore the game world, fight against foes, and protect his world and its inhabitant. The game world comprises different locations, and the player can interact with NPCs, complete a series of quests and earn experience points. The player can create a team of heroes to take on quests and select the best armor and weapons from tons of options. He can unlock other levels, equipment and tools using his experience points. Through customization option, the character can change his appearances such as gender, color, skin, body type and more. With detailed graphics, addictive gameplay, and brilliant mechanics, Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies is the wonderful game to play and amuse.
#7 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.
#8 Disgaea DS
Disgaea DS is a 2008, Role-playing and Strategy video game offered by NIS America for Nintendo DS. The game puts the player in an amazing adventure where he has to battle enemies, earn points to unlock further content and move on to the next levels. It has different characters, and the player can choose one of them to get into the fantasy world, where he immersive himself or herself in dual-screen gameplay experience. He can take part in turn-based combat and can use weapons to kill enemies during his turn. During navigation, the player interacts with non-player characters and complete the requirements to progress. The game becomes challenging to play, as the player earns enough points. The gameplay is split into a square grid, and the player as the leader must control an army of monsters and human, and effort to battle the group of enemies. With addictive gameplay, brilliant graphics, and immerse controls, Disgaea DS is the best game to play and enjoy.
#9 Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin focuses on Turn-based Tactics and Strategy gameplay created by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. The game offers both Single-player and Multiplayer modes and serves as the fourth title in the series of Advance Wars. It takes place in the post-apocalyptic-themed world, and the plot revolves around the Rubinelle, who is the surviving remnants. The main goal of the player is to control his military force and effort to beat the enemies in turn-based gameplay while scoring the points to unlock further content. There are special missions in the Single-player campaign and introduces two different methods to destroy the foes such as capture the headquarters or destroy the units of the enemies. It has four different forces available, and a commander controls each force. In the game, the player must take his turns commanding and building units on the grid-based maps. During the turn, the player can move the units (air, sea, and ground) can move in various terrains. With immersive gameplay, fabulous mechanics, and smooth controls, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is the best game to play.
#10 Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance is a Tactical Role-playing and Single-player video game created by Intelligent Systems for GameCube in 2005. The game acts as the 9th title in the series of Fire Emblem and the 3rd entry to be released in West. Like previous installments, the gameplay focuses on positioning the playable characters on the battlefield with the task to take down the opposing force. If the characters are killed on the battlefield, they are eliminated from the game. The plot takes place in Tellius, a strange world from the other titles of Fire Emblem. Tellius serves as the continent populated with the humanoid Beorc. The game puts the player in the role of the protagonist named as Ike, who discovers the Princess Elincia, who is the last heir to the Crimea’s throne. During the gameplay, the player must struggle to restore the throne of the Princess while battling against enemies and taking down them to earn points. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance includes core features such as Turn-based Combat Mechanics, Strategic Gameplay, beautiful Graphics, and more. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.
#11 Radiant Historia
Radiant Historia is Nintendo DS specific Fantasy-based RPG and Turn-based Strategy video game (Similar to Advance Wars series games) that offers great Time Travel elements as a plus with the core game-play. Built by the top game developer, Atlus, Radiant Historia is set on the land of Vanqueur, once prosperous and powerful empire that destroyed itself by the use of an unstable energy named as Flux. The game allows you to be the ultimate savior by simply taking responsibility of two mysterious children who are the key to reverse everything that happened to the world of Vanqueur. The game tasks you to Travel in Time backwards and stop the Cataclysmic event from happening that destroyed everything. During the jumps to Parallel universes, you’ll have to encounter the enemies in order to eliminate them (3×3 battles), engage into epic combats with bosses and finally alter the history in order to save Vanqueur from the ultimate destruction. With amazing Time Traveling elements, amazing RPG experience, fantasy-based game environment and setting, epic combats and massive character development options, Radiant Historia offers great visuals, well-written storyline and an immersive game-play.
#12 The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail is a Simulation created by MECC and published by the Broderbund, The learning Company and Gameloft as a joint venture. The game is actually a remake of the 1971’s top trending game of the same name. Back in 1971 the game was intended for the School Children and it helped them learn about the 19th Century Pioneer Life on The Oregon Trail. In the previous version of the game, the players could get into the role of a Wagon Leader and their task was to guide their party of early settlers from Independence (a town in Missouri) to Willamette valley based in Oregon, USA. The gameplay of The Oregon Trail consists of the events that happened between the journeys from Independence to Willamette Valley. The events include ambushes, Hunting, Disease, Deaths and all the hardships that the people who travelled, faced throughout the time they spent travelling. With all of its glory, The Oregon Trail video game sold over sixty five Million copies worldwide and it was famous among the students the most. The game portrayed all the depictions as they happened and the rebuilt version of the game by Rawitsch, perfected the story to all the bits and pieces. With a remarkable story, addictive gameplay and a brilliant source to learn all about “The Oregon Trail”, this game is a classic that shouldn’t be missed by all those who love history.