Atlus's Kenichi Goto worried turn-based battles were beginning to feel outdated, but developing Metaphor brought him back around. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Turn-based RPGs have had an up-and-down history. Once upon a time, they were extremely popular; then technology improved, and major triple-A developers started veering toward real-time action RPGs ...

Turn-based games, once deemed outdated, make a glorious return in the modern gaming scene. Cassette Beasts, Octopath Traveler 2, and Sea of Stars are examples of the genre's resurgence via nostalgia.

Final Fantasy "We received a lot of 'JRPGs are back' comments," says Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director, but the success of a turn-based game like Clair Obscur: Expeditition 33 isn't going to warp ...

Chris Littlechild (He/Him) is an Editor and Writer Trainer from the United Kingdom. He has been gaming since receiving an original Game Boy and copies of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: Six ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Roguelike We're living in the new golden age of 2D beat-'em-ups—but the best one released this year had one foot in a different genre entirely RPG Persona 5: The Phantom X had a hard time doing away ...

Whatever form Final Fantasy XVII's combat takes, it doesn't seem likely that it will be turn-based. Square has noted that ...

Clash in a battle of wits and chess-like strategy, and create your unique team from a myriad of famous generals from Koei Tecmo’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms intellectual property. Attain Victory ...

As a foundational shakeup of a nearly 30-year-old game series, Pokémon Legends: Z-A makes a strong case for itself as the next big thing for Pokémon. It’s a fast-paced approach to the turn-based RPG ...

Japanese role-playing games have a bunch of silly clichés. Hell, the Final Fantasy series makes up about 60% of them (the other 39% going to Dragon Quest and the last 1% going to any game copying both ...