Alvora Tactics

The pixel art is really well done and the levels are pleasing to look at. The class system is pretty good with a large selection of learnable skills. This game is a bid on the shorter side, but is fun to play.

I have DREAMED about a game like this existing all my life. Tactical grid based combat? Check. Customize every characters name, race, classes, and appearance? Check. Combine any two classes of all 23 in game into your own unique character? Check. I love this game - easily one of my favorite indie games ever. It doesn't have the depth and length of many larger titles, but it's to be expected from such a small but fantastic team. Be sure to check out their other titles!

More combat-focused than Voidspire Tactics, also very good.

Just beat the game. Another great SRPG in this dev's list of great SRPG's. I will say that the experience was a tad too basic, and I can't say the UI is to my liking, but overall, it's a great game. Solid character building, fantastic combat, good soundtrack.

If you're like me and every other TRPG cannot stand up to Final Fantasy Tactic's combat and class systems, Rad Codex's tactics games are for you. They all have a hybrid class system just like FFT, with some changes that I like and there aren't any useless meta classes like the mediator or thief (instead you just get loot off of enemies when combat is over). Each game has a different type of campaign, but they all share the same class and combat. Also, you gain XP at end of combat instead of per action so you are not incentivized to drag out fights to maximize XP gain. Particular to Alvora, there is almost no story and endless combat. If you ever wanted to grind in FFT in fights that were fun and not meaningless like the random battles in FFT, but don't care if it has a great story, this is a fun game for you. You go on dungeon runs and fight enemies and solve a handful of puzzles, then you can exit when it gets too hard. Its not a roguelike/lite. If you wipe then its game over and you go to a load screen. also if your characters faint then their max HP is lowered which incentivizes you to have more than the maximum team amount, and also you can permanently unlock a class for all present and future team members which makes it easier for new hires to catch up. I had a ton of fun grinding the ♥♥♥♥ out of this game and I recommend it to any TRP fans who are looking for something heavy in combat and light in story.

Another enjoyable game from the makers of Voidspire Tactics. Uses mostly the same combat system, though the gameplay is somewhat different. You run through randomized dungeons with enemies that appear to scale to your party strength. You have more freedom in characters as well, up to 6 active character slots and even more that you can leave on standby. It is great to see many improvements compared to the first game, but there are a few things that I think could have been done better: - If a character gets resurrected a few times, they will need to be put on standby for a run to remove max hp reduction. It could just have been reset between runs. - Although the areas you visit during your runs are randomised with fresh enemies and loot, if the same cave ends up being reused in an area, that cave will remain empty. - Weird thing where a (seemingly) random unit breaks turn order at the start of combat, especially annoying when it gives a boss a free pre-buff turn to strike you. Regardless, recommended, especially for those whom liked Voidspire Tactics.

If you've already played Voidspire Tactics and Horizon's Gate and just want more of that combat system in a different little package, this is a no-brainer.

Same RadCodex universe I've come to love. Familiar yet fresh. This time we get a dungeon crawler! A short game, as I beat it at around 13h playtime, and I'm a gaming slowpoke. Looking forward to the next title :)

if what u want is a dungeon-crawler party-based RPG that cuts down on excess time-filler and just shuttles you between the field and strategizing on party composition off-field, this is the right package