Tactical Indie RPGs - The sucessors of X-COM, Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy Tactics and Heroes of Might and Magic.

Been playing the terribly named Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion which kind of feels like a slant eyed wuxia Fallout. You have a fuck ton of stats and martial arts and feats to make your martial artist, you can run your own sect or join another and bully up to 5 other martial artists and 1 animal to join you in battle. Because you are in Ancient China you will be bribing everyone you meet along the way of course. It's kind of chinksloppy at some points but it's genuinely pretty good overall.

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Oddjob OTP said:
Been playing the terribly named Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion which kind of feels like a slant eyed wuxia Fallout. You have a fuck ton of stats and martial arts and feats to make your martial artist, you can run your own sect or join another and bully up to 5 other martial artists and 1 animal to join you in battle. Because you are in Ancient China you will be bribing everyone you meet along the way of course. It's kind of chinksloppy at some points but it's genuinely pretty good overall.

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Is Mount Tai visible at any point during gameplay?
 
Corette said:
Iron Tower Studio, developer of Age of Decadence and Colony Ship, published 1st screenshots for their next game Heralds of the Third Apocalypse.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/648410/announcements/detail/615430392191647813
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I feel so bad for these niggas,
working hard to make the type of games you want on a shoe string budget. and then making less than you expected and having to lower dev cost and expectations for future games.

And a shout out from a youtuber like Mandalore or Seth really could have made all the difference in terms of revenue.
 
Oddjob OTP said:
Been playing the terribly named Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion which kind of feels like a slant eyed wuxia Fallout. You have a fuck ton of stats and martial arts and feats to make your martial artist, you can run your own sect or join another and bully up to 5 other martial artists and 1 animal to join you in battle. Because you are in Ancient China you will be bribing everyone you meet along the way of course. It's kind of chinksloppy at some points but it's genuinely pretty good overall.

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I remember it being pretty fun, though I don't think I got too far. I do remember the start being kinda tough if you picked one of the factions, I think the thieves? Though you just get sent to prison if you fail, rather than softlocked.
Bixnood said:
I feel so bad for these niggas,
working hard to make the type of games you want on a shoe string budget. and then making less than you expected and having to lower dev cost and expectations for future games.

And a shout out from a youtuber like Mandalore or Seth really could have made all the difference in terms of revenue.
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Mandalore is supposedly getting a video out for Age of Decadence this year, but it might be too late at this point.
 
Billy the Adult said:
Mandalore is supposedly getting a video out for Age of Decadence this year, but it might be too late at this point.
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Even if he gets the video out after the Studio finished pre-planning for the next game, having more people buy the games is great for having a fall back net and for publicity of the new game.
The indie market nowadays is pretty much formed by either colluding with the big "indie" publisher or getting a shout out from a youtuber with a big outreach so.
 
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Corette said:
Speaking about early access titles, Sector Unknown should reach full release status sometimes during Jan. -26.
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Sector Unknown will be released Feb 12.
Corette said:
Banquet for Fools will be released 23rd of January.
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They delayed release to Feb 26.

February will be quite packed with tactical RPGs with Menace coming to early access 5th day and Mewgenics releasing on 10th.
 
Just wanted to let all the posters know that I appreciate all these trailers and news. It's kind of hard to sift through all the Steam garbage games with a million tags to find out the stuff that might intrrest me.

This thread is actually valuable to me, wishlisted a bunch of stuff already. Thanks and keep em coming
 
Seeing Menace pop up across my YouTube recommendations. Mainly for the intro by the Astartes guy.

It's Xcom but each unit is a squad. I don't mind some of the ideas. I don't know why so many have a hard time grasping that no one cares about their named OCs, and part of the fun of Xcom is making a bunch of "your dudes".
 
Judge Dredd said:
Seeing Menace pop up across my YouTube recommendations. Mainly for the intro by the Astartes guy.

It's Xcom but each unit is a squad. I don't mind some of the ideas. I don't know why so many have a hard time grasping that no one cares about their named OCs, and part of the fun of Xcom is making a bunch of "your dudes".
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Should be mentioned, Menace is 'coming out' as in an early access release not the full thing. So it's not actually coming out.
As for named characters I've actually done my best to not view anything about the game(want to go in as blind as possible) but I assumed it was more spess Jagged Alliance than spess Xcom?
 
BiggestKai said:
Should be mentioned, Menace is 'coming out' as in an early access release not the full thing. So it's not actually coming out.
As for named characters I've actually done my best to not view anything about the game(want to go in as blind as possible) but I assumed it was more spess Jagged Alliance than spess Xcom?
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*sigh*
For some people every turn based tactical game is a XCOM.
 
BiggestKai said:
As for named characters I've actually done my best to not view anything about the game(want to go in as blind as possible) but I assumed it was more spess Jagged Alliance than spess Xcom?
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Possibly.

Not a Jagged Alliance guy. Never played them. At the start of menace, there's a pool of 8 characters and you choose 4. Each has their own skills, level up requirements, etc. They are squad leaders. You can name the generic squad guys, but that makes about as much sense as naming the HP pips in Xcom.

Corette said:
*sigh*
For some people every turn based tactical game is a XCOM.
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Guilty.

I loved Xcom EU, EW, 2, and WotC. I've wanted more ever since. Fuck, I even had some fun with the shooters, which everyone hated.

I've struggled to get into anything else. I loved Mechanicus (100%'d it), Front Mission 3, and Valkyria Chronicles. I've bounced off pretty much every single other ones of these games. Phoenix Point was fun but too punishing and turns into a tedious grind. OG Xcom? Tedious grind and a broken economy. X-Piratez? Too easy to softlock unless you know the research tree and RNG heavy. Phantom Doctirine? Going all combat loses the meta game and going all stealth means you're one wrong move from being fucked. Battletech? RNG. I can keep going but most either devolve into a tedious grind or are so brutally punishing that you're expected to save scum or look up a guide.
 
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BiggestKai said:
As for named characters I've actually done my best to not view anything about the game(want to go in as blind as possible) but I assumed it was more spess Jagged Alliance than spess Xcom?
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I discarded it because everybody kept calling it a X-Com copy, is it not? If so I should check it out.
 
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