Strategy RPGs are back, baby.
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but there have been a truly startling number of strategy and tactics RPGs released not just this year, but in recent years as well, with a lot more scheduled for the near future. Without even trying I was able to find well over a dozen of them fresh in the pot, ready to drink, or percolating for the near future. The sleeping subgenre, largely confined to consoles and mobile by a complacent or uncaring set of publishers, has exploded onto PC full force.
Among those who love these games they're often called SRPGs, from the Japanese gaming culture phrase usually translated as"simulation" or"strategy" RPG. These were a mainstay of '90s and turn-of-the-millenium gaming. Classics like the Fire Emblem games, Tactics Ogre, Shining Force, and Final Fantasy Tactics are beloved, but they fell off by the mid-2000s.
Plus, recent big-budget RPGs from the likes of Square have focused on real-time combat and action mechanics, and so what's left for the turn-based enjoyers? They've got a lot of indies for that, and—well, it turns out that most of them like tactics games as much, or more, than turn-based traditional RPGs.
The success of Fire Emblem: Awakening in 2012—and every Fire Emblem since—has finally well and truly translated into releases that come to PC. Starting a few years ago, as far as I can tell, a lot of indies just said"Well, shit, they never put these on PC, so I'll make my own!" Now development is so much simpler and the genre so much more popular that we're getting semi-retired industry pioneers—the creator of freaking Fire Emblem, for example—back in the SRPG-making game.
It has big-budget looks going for it as well. So far everything we've seen of The DioField Chronicle just looks… darn pretty. It's supposed to boast a"gritty and immersive story" to boot, but from what I can tell that pretty much means they swear or something.
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