Tactical role-playing game

The Banner Saga video game. The characters take turns to move on the gridboard and attack.

Tactical role-playing game, also known as TRPG (acronym in English for tactical role-playing game) or SRPG (abbreviation in English of strategy role playing game ), is a genre of video games with elements of role-playing video games and strategy video games.

In these video games the player controls a group of characters (they can vary throughout the game) who must overcome battles that consist of moving the fighters around a stage divided into squares (not always visible) and attacking the contestants of the opposite side with weapons, abilities, spells, etc.

• The fighters get experience and rise to level, becoming stronger.
• They can be equipped with all kinds of objects.
• The battles follow a predetermined history but can follow different paths according to the actions carried out.

Examples

NES

• Fire Emblem
• Fire Emblem Gaiden

SNES

• Fire Emblem: Monshō no Nazo
• Fire Emblem: Sixen no Keifu
• Fire Emblem: Thracia 776
• Front Mission
• Ogre Tactics

Sega Mega Drive

• Shining Force
• Shining Force II
• Langrisser
• Langrisser II

Game Boy Color

• Kakurenbo Battle Monster Tactics

Game Boy Advance

• Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
• Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi
• Fire Emblem Blazing Sword
• Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
• Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis
• Onimusha Tactics
• Yu Yu Hakusho - Ghost Files: Tournament Tactics

PlayStation

• Final Fantasy Tactics
• Hoshigami
• Front Mission 3
• Summon Night
• TearRing Saga: Utona Heroes Saga
• Vandal Hearts
• Vandal Hearts II
• Vanguard Bandits

Sega Saturn

• Shining Force III

Nintendo GameCube

• Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

PlayStation 2

• Berwick Saga: Lazberia Chronicle Chapter 174
• Breath of fire
• Shoot
• Makai Kingdom
• Phantom Brave
• Suikoden Tactics
• Eternal Poison
• Stella Deus
• The Pucelle

PlayStation 3

• Agarest Generations of War
• Agarest Generations of War Zero
• Agarest Generations of War 2
• Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
• Shoot 4: Promise Unforgotten
• Valkyria Chronicles

PSP

• Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
• Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling together
• Jeanne d'Arc

Nintendo DS

• Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon
• DS
• Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift
• Luminous Arc 2
• Rondo of Swords
• Devil Survivor
• Pokémon Conquest

Wii

• Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

PC

• Heroes of Might and Magic

Nintendo 3DS

• Fire Emblem: Awakening
• Fire Emblem Warriors
• Project X Zone
• Stella Glow
• Fire Emblem Fates
• Project X Zone 2

Nintendo Switch

• Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
• Fire Emblem: Three Houses
• Triangle Strategy