It has been a number of weeks now since Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave was launched for Nintendo Switch 2, and followers all over the world are nonetheless exploring this large recreation. Whilst you might simply sink a whole bunch of hours into taking part in via each Flame Lord’s story, you might be questioning what to play after your adventures in Dagda are via. Fear not: we have compiled an inventory of our video games like Fortune’s Weave to maintain your strategic expertise sharp when you watch for Clever Programs to disclose their DLC plans.
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Last Fantasy Ways
In case you get pleasure from negotiating tough terrain and periodically swapping your character courses in Fortune’s Weave, the 2025 remake of Final Fantasy Tactics might be proper up your alley. Whereas it is not fairly as tough because the 1998 PlayStation authentic, FF Ways calls for that you just have interaction deeply with its job system and work out which crew compositions are obligatory for a selected battle. You might be very a lot anticipated to grind through “elective” skirmishes, even on regular issue, and that problem results in a satisfying sense of mastery. A surprisingly grim but shifting story concerning the exploitation of frequent individuals by the the Aristocracy makes this one value revisiting time and again.
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Fireplace Emblem Interact
2023’s Engage did not handle to encourage a thousand ships like Three Homes, principally as a result of the story is fairly flat and forgettable. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless properly value taking part in, as a result of the fight and maps are extraordinarily enjoyable. The central gimmick, Emblem Rings, help you equip anybody in your squad with the talents of a previous Fireplace Emblem hero, permitting for some actually bonkers synergies and limitless prospects for personalization. Construct a powerful sufficient bond between a personality and an Emblem, and so they’ll be capable to inherit a few of that Emblem’s expertise completely. Interact has loads of social-sim components and overworld exploration, however for some motive I really feel far much less remorse about ignoring them right here than I do in Fortune’s Weave.
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Wargroove
Are you the kind of Fireplace Emblem participant for whom permadeath is the one choice? You then’ll vibe with the powerful battles on this 2019 technique recreation from indie developer Chucklefish. Wargroove options 12+ distinctive Commanders, every with a particular final capacity referred to as a “Groove” that prices throughout fight, like therapeutic powers or constructing partitions. My favourite commander is Caesar, a golden retriever in stately silver armor that is festooned with a plume of crimson feathers. In a single mission, he and his troops enter an deserted stronghold, solely to seek out that it’s been overrun by rogues. These ruffians quickly be taught a harsh lesson: underestimate the canine common at your individual peril. He is a ravishing boy and I’ll homicide anybody who lays a finger on him.
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Shining Pressure 2
Sega’s entry into the technique RPG style hasn’t loved the decades-long success of the Fireplace Emblem franchise, however this Nineties rival nonetheless has loads of memorable maps to get pleasure from, together with an enormous chessboard and a sequence of floating rafts. The story is bare-minimum hokum, even by ’90s RPG requirements: assume “the magical seal has damaged on historic evil.” However an assortment of actually distinctive characters — together with a werewolf, a phoenix, and checks notes a flying jellyfish with ice magic make Shining Force 2 properly value testing for retro recreation followers. If all of the social sim components and calendar administration in Fortune’s Weave stress you out, you will discover none of that right here: simply candy, candy grids punctuated by the occasional city. In case you have Nintendo Change On-line + Growth Pack, you could find it within the Sega Genesis library.
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Unicorn Overlord
In case you loved steadily unlocking the world map in Fortune’s Weave, Vanillaware’s 2024 tactical RPG takes an analogous strategy to exploration as you liberate cities and collect sources. The primary story is fairly normal — you are tasked with assembling a military to overthrow the evil empire — however the elective adventures and character-driven missions have extra meat on the bone. Like Fortune’s Weave, Unicorn Overlord options greater than 60 characters to recruit throughout a wide range of courses. In a enjoyable riff on the everyday techniques system, you will mix these characters in squads of as much as 5 for turn-based fight. You may even customise the order by which your expertise and passive talents set off to maximise their damage-dealing potential. Vanillaware’s painterly environments and character designs assist make the expertise simple on the eyes, too.