Tactical RPG

Game genre concept

A sub-genre of RPGs focusing on tactical or stategic combat while having practically no personal achievements, adventuring, or such as you would in more traditional RPGs.

447

games

platforms

Name variations: Strategy RPG, T-RPG, S-RPG, Tactics RPG, Tactical role-playing game, Simulation RPG, シミュレーションロールプレイングゲーム

Super Robot Taisen: Scramble Commander the

PS2 2007-11-01

Shining Force II

GEN 1993-10-01

Shining Force Chronicle I

MOB 2005

Agarest: Generations of War

WIN 2013-10-03

Fire Emblem: Awakening

3DS 2012-04-19

Fire Emblem

GBA 2003-04-25

Langrisser I: The Art of the Swords War

WIN 1998

Nage Libre: Seijaku no Suishin

SNES 1995

3DO 1995-09-14

WIN 1996

PS1 2004-05-13

WSC 2002

The first video game about Tactical RPG was released on December 9, 1988.

Banpresto, Sega and Nintendo has published most of these games

Implied:
* Tactics
* Mission-based

There's some differences in western and eastern tactical RPGs, western ones usually have much more strategic/tactical choices outside of combat and choice of where to battle, while eastern tactical RPGs are more story oriented and have less choice of what battles to fight as the story is more streamlined.

Parent groups

Role-playing game, Strategy

Platforms

PS		53
PS2		45
Windows		39
Saturn		36
PSP		32
SNES		29
Nintendo DS		24
GBA		19
PS3		18
3DS		16
PS Vita		13
Mobile		11
PS4		8
Dreamcast		8
X360		7
iOS		7
Mega Drive		7
Linux		7
WonderSwan Color		6
NES		6
Wii		6
GB		5
WonderSwan		5
Android		5
MS-DOS		4
Game Gear		4
Mac OS X		4
GameCube		3
3DO		3
N64		2

Groups

Tactical RPG

Game genre concept

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