They both have decent, intricate, involved storylines, but expect to spend a wide majority of time just fighting things in Pathfinder. Very long, if that's what you're looking for. The two recent Pathfinder games, Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous, were pretty good if you can get through the mechanical morass of Pathfinder. The third, Shadowrun: Hong Kong, is also very good. The second, Shadowrun: Dragonfall, is fantastic and exceptional and has a story and characters that are very dear to me. The first, Shadowrun Returns, is fine but not super interesting and ultimately I would recommend skipping it or playing it last if you really like the other two. None of them are direct sequels to each other, they can be played independently. There are three Shadowrun games that are probably exactly what you're looking for. Tyranny is another game from the same company, and has a very similar design ethic. They're the only ones of these kinds of games that I ever replay, specifically because I enjoy the mechanics. I must dissent against the above mechanical criticisms of Pillars of Eternity. Hard West is a story-oriented turn-based tactics game/RPG it's relatively light on the RPG mechanics, but the story is good, and the combat is serviceable.Ĭosmic Star Heroine is a very good indie JRPG- more heavily story-focused, heavily streamlined RPG mechanics, less focus on exploration, simplified turn-based combat with no tactical positioning stuff. Operencia: The Stolen Sun is another great dungeon crawler it has fleshed-out party members and a heavy story focus in addition to cool dungeons it draws its settings and characters from Hungarian mythology, which is unique and fun. Vaporum and its followup, Vaporum: Lockdown are also excellent they're much heavier on the story elements but in both of them, the player controls a single protagonist, so there's no party management. It's very good, although also very short for an RPG.ĭungeon crawlers, of the first-person party-blob type: The two Legend of Grimrock games are very solid- good mechanics, fun dungeons to explore with lots of tricky puzzles and secrets to find but they're also extremely sparse with the story. Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is a turn-based party-based RPG with a strong focus on its story and worldbuilding.
(The third game, Expeditions: Rome, just came out a few days ago, and I have yet to play it.) The first, Expeditions: Conquistador, is more of a tactics/resource management game the second, Expeditions: Viking, is a more straightforward RPG, with fleshed-out, scripted party members, and more focus on ground-level exploration and encounters. They have historical/alt-history settings and a focus on resource/party management.
GAMES SIMILAR TO SUPERCOW SERIES
The Expeditions series of games (or at least the two I've played) are very good. I think that it comes closest to what I want from an "old school" plot/character-heavy RPG. But Pillars of Eternity 2 mercifully adds a turn-based mode that makes the game very playable, and has excellent writing (both high-level plot stuff and low-level character/sidequest stuff) and worldbuilding (high fantasy Polynesia) overall. Pillars of Eternity 1 is a nearly-unplayable mess due to its RTWP combat and idiosyncratic, unintuitive RPG mechanics. (EG- Eschalon's bewildering design decisions, like randomizing the contents of every container or forcing the player to spend skill points to have an automap Underrail's combat systems that regularly allow for characters to get stun-locked across turns.) There are lots of games that manage to do some or most of the things I like about them, though, which I can recommend.įor very similar games- story-focused party-based RPGs with turn-based combat: I wish I had a more useful answer, but the truth is, I've never really encountered any other developers that manage to consistently do all the things I like about Spiderweb's RPGs and most consciously "old-school" RPGs tend to turn me off in some way.
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