Alvora Tactics

Of the Rad Codex tactics RPGs, this is probably my least favorite, but that's like saying Dark Souls 2 is the worst souls game; it's technically true, but DS2 is still a masterpiece. If you're a fan of Tactics RPGs, you should really pick this up.

wonderful game, well-crafted tactical gameplay and superb game progression. i love the improvements made to it from voidspire tactics and i'm looking forward to playing horizon's gate when i get the chance!

This game is really between being good and being bad because of the initial difficulty, but I am going to recommend to people that like TRPGS. I think part of the problem is that levels are procedurally generated and it seems not much care was taken for balance as I often would lose with a four character party at full health, you have to be really careful and make multiple runs which in itself is a bit frustrating. Another con is some stuff isn't well explained or not explained at all (at least yet?). If you like TRPGS maybe wait for a sale but its decent enough without one.

Had fun with this one. I ended up playing this after Voidspire tactics and although the progression was different, it overall had a similar feeling between the battles and classes. While Voidspire is more of a collect-a-thon with a main hub area, Alvora is structured more in the way of a rogue-like using procedural generated dungeons, though once you played through the areas a few times, you do notice some things that repeat, such as each run's area always generating a cave (though which cave it is is picked at random), or it'll generate a specific resource that can only be found in each area. As for the characters, it has a wider array of races available at the start and even though you're initial 4 might have a specific role in mind, the fact that you later unlock the ability to have up to 6 units at once allows you to play around with classes more without feeling that you have to stick to a main melee, dps, a ranged dps, a healer, and a flex depending on the situation. As an example In voidspire i ended up using the monk as my main damage since it was the one class i found to output the most single target damage, but because i didn't have to rely on one unit doing the damage i opted into having the use a greatsword and another front-line tanker which i ended up making into a breaker. Figuring out the augmentation also let me go out of my way to go and power up my armor, even better the materials aren't hard inputted into the gear so if you find something better then you can just take the mats out and move over, also speaking of better gear if you risk a little in the caves its possible to get strong gear in the first area, for instance i found a chunk of mythirl and a sword craft so i just have a mythirl sword with and i was set for the first area. All in all, Alvora only has around 4-5 hours worth of content in it, but with how tanky the bosses are, you are expected to power up a little (also with some cheese here and there because some of the optional encounters are actually somewhat brutal). Structure-wise i did like Voidspire more, but i can't complain too much about a solidly made tactics game, even the fact that it's a procedural game didn't bother me after the first run through and i even forgot that the dungeons are run based until i left and there was a tally.

This game rules. I played Voidspire Tactics and had trouble with it. Didn't end up finishing because the game frustrated me with its seeming inability to realize its own mechanics. Alvora does not have this weakness. Alvora Tactics uses procgen in a very simple and elegant way to serve up varied encounters that can actually challenge your builds and provide novel battle scenarios. I wouldn't call it endlessly replayable, but it's definitely getting a 2nd run out of me. Sick game, in my opinion a great improvement over the 1st while building on it in just about every way.

I played Voidspire Tactics before this, which was a story driven tactics RPG. This was a much simpler procedurally generated dungeon crawler. Less talking, just fighting and looting. There's some new classes here, including my favorite, the Bat Handler. The graphics emulate 8 bit retro graphics well. The music is good. The sound effects are kinda bland. The variety of abilities and classes is pretty good though.

Quite different in meta structure from the other two Rad Codex games -- Alvora has you building an X-Com style roster and running repeatable semi-random dungeon chunks. Not my favorite of the three, but still extremely worth the time and money.

It's a pretty simple (and short) roguelike with about 5 dungeons. There are loads of combinations of races and classes, which is pretty fun. The gameplay is a mix between final fantasy tactics divinity original sin, so if you like those games you'll find this pretty fun as well.