More strategy RPGs for the Steam Deck every year, please.
rediscover the tactical RPG, and delivered a bounty of riches to PC players that I sure didn't see coming at the start of this year. For the first time in ages that I can remember, Square focused less on blockbusters and more on small RPGs. Its timing couldn't have been better.
These are both cases where the Steam Deck's flexibility benefited Square Enix's games, but Square's also been giving back. In the last few months of the year it's gone on a tear, releasing game after game that fit the Deck like a glove. , which blew nobody's socks off, but was an unusual attempt to blend the tactical RPG with real-time combat.
and even called it"an ideal Switch or Steam Deck game: something to chip away at little by little in your free moments.", which made the jump from Switch to PC in October. When it first released on Switch, Digital Foundry did athat was mostly positive, but highlighted a couple obvious limitations: some blurry sprites and a 30 fps target. The Steam Deck, meanwhile, can run it at 60 fps, max settings .
Triangle Strategy's too talky and not quite focused enough on its combat to be the new crown prince of strategy RPGs, especially with a script that can't measure up to the likes of Final Fantasy Tactics. But that's OK, because Square followed it up a mere month later with, a remake of one of the best strategy games ever. And an extensive remake at that: there aregoing over all the changes Square made here to classes, leveling, balance, AI, combat mechanics, and graphics.
Square has spent so many years slapping its old games into modern wrappers to port them to new platforms that it's wonderful to see a team take a real crack at making a definitive version of one. A few months ago I would've called Tactics Ogre one of the best games to emulate on the Steam Deck if you have a copy of the PSP version; today it's one of the best Steam deck games you can buy.
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