Reccomend Tactics/TRPG games

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Bit of an under-discussed genre was looking for reccomendations for good ones since I haven't played many.

I have played FF tactics, Rime Berta, Invisible inc., Into the Breach and Tactial Breach Wizards.

Also I'm aware of Mewgenics (which I've played briefly) and the Persona 5 one. Just looking for titles you either enjoyed or feel are "important" to the genre.
 
XCOM Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2, WH40k Mechanicus, and Fire Emblem Three Houses are ones that I'd recommend along with FF Tactics and Into The Breach. I've heard great things about the War of the Chosen expansion for XCOM 2. I like Banner Saga trilogy too but it's mid.
 
Battle Brothers. Be poor, manage a bunch of violent retards, get mad when the best of them die. No real story structure, but doing contracts for money is enough. It has a charm to it, well liked.
 
I haven't played it yet, but I just bought Jagged Alliance 2 and the expansion on GoG because it's like $3 right now, and I've been hearing for years that JA2 is one of the best tactics games ever. But that aside, even just the premise of running your own 90s PMC is pretty intriguing.

If you're into realtime tactics, have a look into Syndicate. It's a cyberpunk squad tactics game from Bullfrog that's got a couple similarities with XCom, but like most Molyneux games it does a lot of its own shit that's quite novel. It's fun to play as unapologetic bad guys: two things I particularly enjoy are the literal mind-control 'gun' that lets you brainrape civilians into being retard meatshields or doing drivebys and Hovercars Of Peace, and the mechanic where you control your agents' hormone levels which is like a diagetic system for setting their AI behaviour on the fly (such as dumping all 3 hormones into their brains at once, basically triggering cyberpsychosis as a viable combat tactic).
A sourceport thingy is back in development called FreeSynd, but it's far from ready.
 
Gorky 17. You'll curse me over and over and over until you learn to love its utter brutality.

Shadowrun Returns is decent.

Battletech is also very, very solid.
 
Open Xcom is still objectively the best one.
But if you can upgrade your mind to understand Real Time boy do I have some jank FUN for you.
UFO Aftermath. Which has a top notch atmosphere even if the tactical side is a bit bare.
There is Open Xcom Apocalypse if you want the OG jank FUN.
Then we have 7.62. High Calibre and Hard Life. Technically the same game. Technically not. They are bundled together and High Caliber is still getting fixes so pick that one. For the ultimate experience of real time Jagged Alliance meets autistic gun simulator like Tarkov.
If you can't handle time as a dimension I guess you could be cringe and play the following:
Xenonauts, Unity of Command, Blood Bowl 2, Expeditions Rome, Vikings or Conquistadors, Hard West, Jagged Alliance 3, Disciples, Langraiser.
 
Disagea was pretty fun. I recommend starting out with the first one and then picking one of the newer ones (like 5) to see how the series has developed in terms of gameplay and features. I haven't played the 3D ones yet so I can't really say if these are worth the time.
 
I was just thinking about making a thread on this very subject. If you like 90s soldier of fortune edge and funny merc chatter as a concept you will love jagged alliance 2 1.13
Lurkerish Kandor said:
JA2
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Don't forget the 1.13 mod

Chaosgate demongunters is a pretty good turn based tactics game, though the research aspect is pretty underwhelming and I stopped playing because one of the mission hazards is that your guys just get artilleried for the entire map in like a 6x6 radius with perfect accuracy. It has a novel idea with getting new weapons I will give it that and it does a good job of letting you do Warhammer stuff and getting immersed

MENACE is an early access TBT game from the people that made battle brothers. It feels like a spiritual successor to jagged alliance in that it has good team chatter, high degree of load out customization, and gives you enough Intel that your can actually approach missions with different loadouts. It's still very early but I dumped like 30 hours in it already and had nothing but fun the whole time.
 
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