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Games like Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon

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This DS remake revisits the origins of the Fire Emblem series with chess-like turn-based battles controlled by touch. You lead a band of warriors, mages and archers who grow stronger over the campaign, and where a fallen unit may stay lost for good.

Turn-based combat
Companions and relationships
A party of several characters
Tactical depth

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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Dark Deity II

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A classic grid-based tactical RPG in the vein of Fire Emblem: you lead a squad of heroes through a war and plan each battle carefully. Unit growth and relationships between characters play a big role.

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Dark Deity

Turn-based combat

A Fire Emblem-style turn-based tactics RPG where you lead a large roster of heroes across grid battlefields, build bonds between characters, and power them up with potent artifacts.

Blackguards

Tactical depth

A turn-based tactical RPG on hex grids set in The Dark Eye universe, where you lead a band of misfits and criminals. Battles are demanding and the deep character system allows lots of freedom in building your party.

Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen

Companions and relationships

You play a memoryless man raised by a kindhearted beastfolk tribe who becomes their defender against invaders. Visual novel storytelling alternates with turn-based tactical battles in the remastered 3D battle sections.

Triangle Strategy

Turn-based combat

A tactical RPG with a political plot in which votes decide how the story unfolds.

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles

Tactical depth

The remaster of the strategy classic tells a grim tale of intrigue, betrayal and honor amid the wars of Ivalice. You fight grid-based battles and shape your squad through a deep job system, now with full voice acting, improved visuals and new difficulty options.

Wildermyth

Turn-based combat

A tactical RPG where procedurally generated stories turn simple farmers into legends over the years. Heroes age, transform, and form bonds, while turn-based battles play out in a charming paper-cutout look.

Arc the Lad

Turn-based combat

An early tactical RPG for the PlayStation in which young Arc gathers a growing party and fights grid-based, turn-based battles against a looming threat. A genre classic with a straightforward, linear story.

Massive Chalice

Turn-based combat

As an immortal ruler you guide a dynasty of heroes across centuries, arranging marriages, training heirs and sending them into turn-based tactical battles against demonic invaders. The appeal lies in generational management where fallen heroes are permanently lost.

Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits

Turn-based combat

A tactical turn-based JRPG in which two heroes, one human and one Deimos, try to unite their estranged races amid a war over the Spirit Stones. Grid-based battles with a varied party drive the gameplay.