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Any good games that are like Ogre Battle?
I'm playing some old SNES Ogre Battle right now, has anyone made anything new in a similar style?
I'm playing some old SNES Ogre Battle right now, has anyone made anything new in a similar style?
I can't think of many games that are exactly like Ogre Battle, but there's plenty of solid games in a similar vein. Tactics Ogre, the sequel to Ogre Battle, has recently been remastered and rereleased across all platforms.
There are plenty of Ogre Battle inspired games. My favorite latest one is Symphony of War: Nephilim Saga . It's on Steam and uses the same battle system as Ogre Battle but it turned based on the battlefield instead of real time.
Grand Arms: March of the Red Dragon is looking to be an Ogre Battle-like game I'm following right now.
It's a hard genre to follow... Lots of games have been teased to mimic it and then disappear.
It misses the nuance of ogre battle, since positioning your guys doesn’t really matter since the enemies can’t attack you from the side.
But overall it has the same spirit. And clearly takes inspiration from ogre battle.
Yes it does miss some nuance, but it's the closest we've got in 20 years! It takes a lot of Fire Emblem and Ogre Battle and mixes it up.
I agree. I don’t want to come across as not recommending it but it doesn’t quite scratch the itch. However, it is a fun game and I think it’s worth supporting the devs because they’re a pretty small studio and I anticipate their next couple of games will probably be getting closer to ogre battle.
Besides Ogre Battle 64, I'm not sure what comes close to the way that game plays. There's a few versions of the original, and there are some romhacks of it floating around if you wanted to try a different spin on it.
If you're sticking to that era, here are some other strategy games i enjoyed. They'll need patches for English, and folks have uploaded pre-patched versions if you know where to look.
SNES:
On Sega Genesis:
Are you aware of Ogre Battle 64?
Unfortunately there’s really not anything. I’ve looked for years. Someone tried to kickstart a game one time. If you try to google this answer you’ll get linked to tactics style games. There’s just nothing else like it (the snes and the n64 one I mean).
Oathborne: Chronicle of Ruin was looking pretty neat a while back, and then the Dev went MIA.. https://youtu.be/INZINAU8DVM - that's their only trailer. It was very close, with more RPG elements added in.
Thought I should at least mention, even though I haven’t played it to verify:
Himeko sutori on steam appears to be a similar game to ogre battle. Currently 75% off. English isn’t the original language, and I haven’t had time to verify if it’s actually ogre battle similar. But thought I would mention it here in case anyone wants to do some research.
Ah that one’s new to me. The other one I saw was from even earlier and had a similar art style to ogre battle as well.
However, not really worth looking up, because even when I saw it last it was already 4-5 years since the last update.
Pretty disappointing. With how popular auto battler games became I can’t believe the studio who made ogre battle weren’t able to get a new game in the works.
Tried Battle for Wesnoth?