Need Mah Fix

So anyone who follows the same sort of games as I do will know about XCOM2: War of the Chosen, Sonic Mania, and ELEX.

The problem being all of these games are at least 2 months off, and I'm kinda needing something new to fill the void for now.

Anybody know a good Turn-Based Strategy, Grid-based RPG, that isn't XCOM, Battle Brothers, or Swarm Tactics, that could last me a couple of months?

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[Lord Of Dorkness]

[The Wolf]

Well, now, that's some awesomely creepy addiction symbolism. Thanks for sharing.

Still, think I may have a few samples... *Spreads open creepy duster.'

Shadowrun: Returns, Dragonfall and Hong Kong.

Not as deep tactically as X-Com, but magic , drones, spirit summoning and cybernetics add a lot of interesting options you simply don't see in X-Com.

The Banner Saga

Haven't played this myself, but I've heard a ton of praise for it. Norse myth meets X-Com with some sort of world-map you have to cross, according to what I've heard.

2D, dark fantasy X-Com. With the slowly eroding sanity of your team as a game mechanic, I might add.

Quite the time-hog, though, even by the standards of the game type. Just fair warning.

Xenonauts.

Fair warning, I couldn't stand this one myself. I tried it for fifteen minutes or so, and the rage quit in frustration after spending five minutes of that trying to open a single door because the tutorial's too smug about how old-school the game is to actually tell you basic game controls.

Still, I've heard some people swear this is the best thing since the original X-Com started to get too soft on the newbs, so might be worth a look if you're itching for a challenge.

UFO: After-X trilogy. Afterlight in particular.

Love this series personally, but it fell into obscurity after X-Com basically did what it tried to do better. AKA, modernize the original.

And, well, there's a reason for that. The whole series is one of those 'unpolished but with a lot of heart' type deals.

Still, there's something really cool about taking a hand-full of survivors, and by grit and determination terraform Mars while fighting a lopsided war for the red planet. How harsh the environment and how much your armored space-suits can actually take being an actual game-mechanic, and Something I still haven't seen even one other game even try.

Oh, and the whole trilogy regularly go for about one € each at the Steam sales. So, bonus.

Disgaea 1 & 2, PC version.

(Pardon the crap and dated trailer, but the PC version trailer ruins some of the best jokes in the whole game.)

This series is crazy, just don't plain believe in level or power limits, and is very, very nearly painfully Japanese. Also frequently hilarious and clever in how it satires both fantasy and games.

By the time my save on the PS2 version got corrupted due to a power-outage () I had poured about 200-250 hours into the game, and had stll barely scratched the surface of the end-game stuff despite being on NG+++ or something like that. Definitely one of the best 'money / play-time' purchases I've done, and I've heard that the PC version is quite good as a bonus.

Hope that helped.