Action prompts in turn-based RPGs add real-time elements, keeping players engaged and on their toes. Games like Lost Odyssey and Sea of Stars blend timing-based action commands to enhance combat ...

The decade so far has catered to RPG fans of all kinds incredibly well. Games of different subgenres under the wider RPG umbrella have been released by developers with different stylistic approaches.

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Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

So, we can well and truly state that turn-based RPGs are back in fashion, right? Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are some of the industry's most successful entries in the genre—the ...

Final Fantasy "We received a lot of 'JRPGs are back' comments," says Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director, but the success of a turn-based game like Clair Obscur: Expeditition 33 isn't going to warp ...

For a lot of Final Fantasy fans, the move away from turn-based combat was a bit of a disappointment. Recent rumblings suggest that old-school combat might be returning to the franchise. But until then ...

A thing about me is I live according to bushidō, tempering the iron of my will against any enemy the world sends my way. At all times I am sharpening myself on the whetstone of my foes, fashioning my ...

Final Fantasy "We received a lot of 'JRPGs are back' comments," says Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director, but the success of a turn-based game like Clair Obscur: Expeditition 33 isn't going to warp ...

On the Nintendo Switch, there are so many great new turn-based strategy games out there right now! Enough to inspire me to write a whole list of them. I’ve put together the top five turn-based ...