Turn-based strategy (TBS)

Run=Dim as Black Soul

Single player

Dreamcast

Bird view / Isometric

A Turn-Based Strategy RPG based on the anime series Run=Dim, set in a dystopian future where 1/10th of Japan has sunk due to global warming and an evil military organization named "JESAS" has set it's sight on controlling the future of Japan with mechas. Being the second game in the series (the first being "The Mech Smith Run=Dim" for the PlayStation 2) developed by Idea Factory.

Simple 1500 Series Vol. 70: The War Simulation - Nin no Tsukurishisha-tachi

The War Simulation - Nin no Tsukurishisha-tachi

PlayStation

Simple 1500 Series vol. 70: The War Simulation - Nin no Tsukurishisha-tachi is a Tactical RPG in which the player takes control of Ken (and his mecha robot) that is a member of a Rebellion Army that is trying to defeat the dictator government that is pressing the people.

Action

Game Boy Wars 3

Multiplayer

Strategy

Tactical

modern warfare

turn-based

strategic

tactical turn-based combat

modern military

Game Boy Color

Side view

Game Boy Wars 3 is a Turn Based Strategy game for the Game Boy Color. It is a Japan-only part of the Nintendo Wars series.

Warfare

Arcanum begins with a cut scene of the IFS Zephyr, a luxury zeppelin, on her maiden voyage from Caladon to Tarant. Two monoplanes, piloted by Half-Ogre bandits, close in on the craft and commence attack runs, succeeding in shooting it down. An old gnome who is a passenger aboard the Zephyr is now in his death throes under charred debris and tells the player to bring a silver ring to "the boy," and promptly dies. Being the only survivor of the crash, the main character is proclaimed as "The Living One," a holy reincarnate, by the only witness to the crash, Virgil. The story follows the player's path as he searches for the origin of the ring.

Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

Arcanum

Co-operative

Role-playing (RPG)

magic

summoning support

crafting

elves

steampunk

multiple endings

artificial intelligence

open-world

dialogue trees

inventory

camera

easter egg

teleportation

dwarves

day/night cycle

gods

user generated content

boss fight

platform exclusive

leveling up

bink video

human

bow and arrow

loot gathering

gog.com

character creation

moral decisions

recruitable characters

using dialogue to avoid combat

potion

melee

difficulty level

fetch quests

regenerating health

random encounter

gnome

lock picking

crash landing

nonlinear development

dead multiplayer

e3 2001

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Imagine a place of wonder,where magic and technology hold equal sway, and an adventurer might just as easily wield a flintlock pistol as a flaming sword. A place where great industrial cities house castle keeps and factories, home to Dwarves, Humans, Orcs and Elves alike. A place of ancient runes and steamworks, of magic and machines, of sorcery and science.

Arcanum is the first game to come from the development house Troika Games, LLC, started by former Fallout team members Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky, and Jason Anderson. This team takes the depth of gameplay and world-building in role-playing games to entirely new levels of realism and excitement.

Arcanum creates a compelling new world where magic and technology coexist in an uneasy balance. As Arcanum opens, the mechanical age has only recently arrived in this ancient land where Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs and other races have learned to survive in the new sprawling industrialized cities. But this radical shift from magic to technology has created a potentially explosive situation. As the townspeople and other thinkers begin mass production of light bulbs, batteries, eyeglasses and guns, the Mages grow leery. This tightly wound setting is the starting point from which the character must set out on his quest.

Fantasy

Science fiction

Shogun: Total War - Mongol Invasion

Real Time Strategy (RTS)

medieval

ninja

samurai

invasion

horse

diplomacy

micromanagement

real-time strategy

expansion

feudal japan

alternate historical

rivaling factions

games based on literature

original soundtrack release

morale

barbarians

supply and demand

macromanagement

Set in the Mongol invasion of Japan, this expansion pack features additional content, missions and the new playable faction of the Mongols. Historically the Kublai Khan, leader of the Mongols met catastrophic weather on the journey to Japan and so the invasion plan was abandoned before it ever truly began. In this expansion however, the Creative Assembly have re-written this detail in the name of strategy-based gaming. In the Mongol Invasion the invaders successfully land on the shores of Chikuzen. As either the Mongols or the ruling Hojo clan of Japan it is up to you to take Japan in the name of the Khan or repel the invading force and secure your homeland’s freedom.

Historical

WWE With Authority!

WWF With Authority!

With Authority!

card game

digital distribution

card based combat

real photos on cover art

card collection

discontinued mmo

WWE with Authority! is a discontinued online card game featuring the WWE license.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 5 Expert 1

Game Boy Advance

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 5 Expert 1 is a video game for the Game Boy Advance, and the first game to follow the real OCG/TCG rules. The game is very similar to its English version (Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul) in the story, but different in the graphics and the Booster Packs (The Eternal Duelist Soul uses the same graphic as Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel). Gameplay is similar to standard dueling rules, except that the Side Deck can have less than 15 cards, and is more for convenience of getting to cards for your Deck than switching between duels, as CPU duels are single duels rather than matches (though you will have a match duel against a character every two weeks on a Saturday).

Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII

Sangokushi VIII

PlayStation 2

PlayStation Portable

KOEI beckons PS2 strategy gamers to return to second-century China with this eighth full release in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series. Following the style of the series, this edition is set amongst the confusion and chaos at the end of the Han dynasty. As in earlier games, the ultimate goal is to reunite the sundered nation, and players can take the roles of diverse characters as they work to do so.

Strategy gamers can take control of up to eight different characters in a single game. Over 700 characters are available, 100 of which are customizable originals. Other new features include the chance for more than four forces to meet on the same battlefield and the ability to set the game's starting point to any time during the 50-year period between the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184 A.D. and the death of Zhuge Liang in 234 A.D.

Work your way through 54 scenarios and one fictional story featuring every officer in the game

Use commands such as "Marriage" and "Sworn Brother" to alter the relationships of your empire

Create an army by selecting rulers, warlords, viceroys, free officers, and bands

In Revolt of the Beastmasters, the Ancestors send Tarnum to free the Mudlanders from Erathian control. Even after hundreds of years of slavery, the Mudlanders are determined to overthrow their masters. Tarnum appoints the Gnoll, Brellick, as a captain and the Witch, Adamina, as his advisor. He also trains Droglo, a human boy who was raised by Mudlanders. The Mudlanders defeat opposition from Lord Onsten and Baron Paglon before Mad King Gryphonheart of Erathia takes the rebellion seriously.

Mad King Gryphonheart sends his son Niven to put down the rebellion in Earl Rambert's territory, though he secretly thinks his son will fail. Tarnum captures Prince Niven and shows him what slavery has done to the Mudlanders. Niven eventually sides with Tarnum, and he is released from his prison. The Mudlanders force Rambert to retreat to another castle and leave many of his prisoners behind. When Rambert threatens to kill the remaining prisoners, including Adamina, if Tarnum does not return Niven, Tarnum sends Brellick, Droglo, and Niven to make the exchange after harming Niven so that he looks like a true prisoner. However, Rambert ambushes their army and kills Brellick. Droglo then kills Rambert, and the Mudlanders soon win the battle. To prepare for the final battles against Mad King Gryphonheart, Tarnum sends Droglo to request the aid of the Barbarians of Krewlod (the Wastelands).

Adamina and the other wisewomen name the new Mudlander nation "Tatalia," a word which means "community" in the forgotten Mudlander language now only known to witches. In Erathia, the nobles displeased with Mad King Gryphonheart name Niven as their new king. King Niven mounts an army to join the army of Tatalia in the fight against the old king's remaining supporters. Droglo finally discovers Tarnum's identity as the Immortal Hero, but accepts that he has changed. Tarnum and Mad King Gryphonheart meet in battle and deal each other seemingly mortal blows. However, Tarnum is immortal, and he slips away before his body can be buried. Droglo becomes the new leader of Tatalia.

Heroes Chronicles: Revolt of the Beastmasters

Heroes Chronicles 7: Revolt of the Beastmasters

turn-based combat

Heroes Chronicles: Revolt of the Beastmasters is the seventh game in the Heroes Chronicles series. As all the Heroes Chronicles games, Revolt is based on the Heroes of Might and Magic III engine, and consists of a campaign and a tutorial. Unlike Heroes III, in Revolt importing extra scenarios or playing in multiplayer is impossible.
Tarnum travels to the Mudlands of Tatalia, becoming a Beastmaster to free the Mudlanders from the oppression he brought upon them centuries ago. This campaign was one of two included in the single-disc installment, Heroes Chronicles: The Final Chapters.

In The Sword of Frost, a direct sequel to Clash of the Dragons, Gelu, wielder of Armageddon's Blade, sets out to destroy the Sword of Frost. Tarnum, having heard of an ancient prophecy that the meeting of the two swords will bring about the end of the world, struggles to stop Gelu. With the recent chaos after the death of Queen Mutare of Nighon, Tarnum is able to take control over the Dungeon creatures of Nighon who are the only ones who wish to fight Gelu, becoming an Overlord. However, ruling these brutal creatures brings out the darkness in Tarnum.

The Sword of Frost is located in the northern lands of the Vori elves. Gelu is half-Vori, so the elves fight against Tarnum. In addition, Tarnum's own troops are prone to internal conflicts. After being shot with a poisoned arrow by a medusa, Tarnum appoints his saviours,the beholders, Neez, Zarm, and Kilkik as his bodyguards and advisors. They take revenge against the medusas, but Zarm dies in the process.

Kija, the third wife of King Kilgor, also chases Gelu for the Sword of Frost. She plans to steal it from him and give it to her husband so that her son will be named heir to Krewlod. Tarnum cannot convince Kija or Gelu to give up their search, so he decides to gain an edge by adding the Azure Dragons to his army.

Gelu understood that the Sword of Frost could only be destroyed by Armageddon's Blade. However, he didn't know that this could only be done under very delicate circumstances. Tarnum knew that if Gelu were to try to destroy it using only brute force, the cataclysm would occur.

In order to learn more about the Sword of Frost, Tarnum captures Gelu's friend and captain, the dwarf Ufretin. While he does so, he replaces his remaining beholder bodyguard Kilkik with the minotaur Trongar and the medusa Zallisa. Tarnum convinces Ufretin to understand him before allowing the dwarf to return to Gelu. Ufretin buys Tarnum enough time to capture Kija and annihilate her army. However, Gelu soon continues his march toward the city of Volee (where the sword is held).

When Tarnum finally beats Gelu to Volee, he discovers that the Sword of Frost has already been taken by Kija, who had escaped from her dungeon prison a few weeks earlier. In the chronicle's ending scene, Tarnum prays to the Ancestors, "Please don't let my compassion destroy the world!" As Heroes IV begins, it is revealed that shortly after the events of The Sword of Frost, Gelu fights Kilgor who now wields the Sword of Frost. Kilgor was about to wage war on all of Antagarich, but he was stopped by Gelu and the Forest Guard. When the two blades meet in battle, they cause an explosion that destroys the world of Enroth. Many of the planet's residents, however, escape through thousands of mysterious portals leading to a new world, Axeoth. This event becomes known as the Reckoning, which leads into Heroes of Might and Magic IV.

Heroes Chronicles: The Sword of Frost

Heroes Chronicles 8: The Sword of Frost

Heroes Chronicles: The Sword of Frost is the eight and final game in the Heroes Chronicles series.
Tarnum must beome a Dungeon Overlord of Nighon to stop his former friend, the Elven Hero Gelu, from discovering the Sword of Frost. This campaign was one of two included in the single-disc installment, The Final Chapters.

Heroes of Might and Magic: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff

HoMM: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff

Heroes of Might and Magic: Quest for the DragonBone Staff

ghosts

orcs

wizards

vampire

dragons

fairy

time limit

undead

wolf

giants

trolls

ogres

polygonal 3d

skeletons

non-player character

archer

knight

spellcaster

reptilian humanoid

bounty hunting

barbarian protagonist

siege warfare

nomads

Heroes of Might and Magic: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff is a 2001 video game released on the PlayStation 2. Though 3DO did not advertise it as such, the game is an enhanced remake of King's Bounty.

Mega Man Battle Network

Battle Network Rockman EXE

MMBNBattle Network RockmanEXE

MMBN

Battle Network RockmanEXE

Adventure

anime

cyberpunk

collecting

mascot

real time tactics

mad scientist

villain

new game plus

games on which anime are based

fictional currencies

tomboy

monomyth

wii u virtual console

Wii U

In the future, a young net-battler named Lan, boots his 'personal exploration terminal' (PET) and prepares to hack into the network to battle net crime. Lan's PET is no ordinary network navigator. It's Mega Man.EXE, the cyber-identity, which infiltrates the crime-ridden network to battle destructive computer viruses. Defeat viruses in real time and collect Battle Chips program data, containing valuable weapons data and critical system info. Collect over 175 Battle Chips to help Land and Mega Man.EXE restore peace and order to the network.

Comedy

Star Trek: Away Team

Star Trek™: Away Team

explosion

licensed game

sprinting mechanics

sniping

squad

poisoning

united federation of planets

starfleet

A real-time tactical combat game set in the Star Trek universe, in which the player endeavours to make sure his team of Starfleet officers doesn't meet the gruesome fate of so many redshirts before them.

The protagonist commoner Selene Weisszwerg is the second-in-command of the Satellite Vigilante Corps, led by the young noble Lady of Satellite Sirus cen Etoilefixe, whom has recently succeeded her father after his sudden death. Over the course of the game their activities come to span the entirety of the Milchstrasse empire.

Shikyokusei

Pointers

turn-based tactics

inventory management

tactics

turn-based rpg

Text

Turn-based tactics game developed by Kogado Studio's Usagi Team and released for Windows PCs in March, 2001.

Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel

Fallout Tactics

Fallout Tactics: A Post Nuclear Tactical Combat Game

Fallout Tactics: BoS

FOBOS

Fallout: PoS

Fallout Tactics Classic

Fallout: BoS

helicopter

This is a Tactical Squad-Based Combat comes to the Fallout Universe. You are the wretched refuse. You may be born from dirt, but we will forge you into steel. You will learn to bend; if not you, will you break. In these dark times, the Brotherhood - your Brotherhood - is all that stands between the rekindled flame of civilization and the howling, radiated wasteland.

Your weapons will become more than your tools, they will become your friends. You will use your skills to inspire the lowly and protect the weak... whether they like it or not. Your squadmates will be more dear to you than your kin and for those that survive there will be honor, respect and the spoils of war.

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