The Best Squad RPG Games

Update : GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE added at rank #11.
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Heavenstrike Rivals (2016)

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PC Windows

Embark on an epic adventure in Heavenstrike Rivals, a strategy role-playing game with collectible card game elements. Battle fierce monsters, take on challenging quests and explore a vast open world filled with secrets and treasures. With a variety of weapons, armor, and skills at your disposal, you'll need to use strategy to defeat powerful bosses. The game combines CCG and strategy elements brilliantly, with lavish presentation and deep, highly compulsive gameplay.

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What we like:
  • Unique mix between board game, card game, and tactical RPG
  • Great character development
  • Impressive plot
  • Decent strategy elements
  • Fast forward option to speed up battles
What could be improved:
  • Plagued by pay walls
  • Not deep strategy
  • Designed to milk players of money
  • Energy system limits gameplay time
  • Confusing metagame

  • war-torn
  • player-vs-player
  • card
  • tactical
  • rpg
  • squad
  • strategy
  • easy-to-learn
  • battle
  • tacticians
  • fighter
  • turn-based
  • well-polished

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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III (2017)

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Rean Schwarzer uncovers a dark plot that threatens his homeland. To face their enemies, he must prepare a new generation of heroes as an instructor at a new branch campus and guide them towards victory.


  • rpg
  • japanese
  • jrpg
  • turn-based
  • politics
  • anime
  • monster
  • squad
  • innovative
  • interactive
  • must-play

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Chroma Squad (2015)

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IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

In Chroma Squad, you become the leader of a group of five stunt actors who create their own Power Rangers-inspired TV show. Customize your studio, craft weapons, upgrade equipment, and fight in turn-based battles. Enjoy a branching storyline, skill trees, and a chiptune soundtrack.


What we like:
  • Simple mechanics
  • Charming pixel art style
  • Great soundtrack, Management sim elements
  • Entertaining story
What could be improved:
  • Random crafting system
  • Repetitive boss fights
  • Luck-based mecha battles
  • Lack of tutorial, Underwhelming difficulty for experienced strategy game players

  • tactical
  • turn-based
  • rpg
  • battle
  • squad
  • mech
  • strategy
  • crafting
  • combat
  • boss
  • superhero
  • isometric
  • management
  • fight
  • pixel

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Mass Effect 2 (2010)

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Xbox 360 Xbox One Playstation 3 PC Windows

From the makers of Star Wars®: Knights of the Old Republic™, Dragon Age: Origins™, and Mass Effect™ comes the dark second installment in the thrilling Mass Effect Trilogy! Two years after Commander Shepard repelled invading Reapers bent on the destruction of organic life, a mysterious new enemy has emerged.


  • rpg
  • tps
  • sci-fi
  • cover
  • squad
  • shooter
  • combat
  • story
  • action
  • narrative
  • vehicle
  • aliens
  • tactical
  • inventory
  • customization

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Kenshi (2018)

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PC Windows

Experience the ultimate freedom in Kenshi, a unique open-world RPG that lets you forge your own path. Play as anyone, from a trader to a warlord, and shape your destiny in a harsh desert environment. Craft new equipment, build fortified havens, and research technologies to survive. With no limitations and a dynamic world, this is not just a game - it's a simulated life waiting to be conquered.


What we like:
  • Open world sandbox gameplay
  • Unique and interesting characters
  • High replayability
  • Immersive atmosphere
What could be improved:
  • Graphics could be better
  • Lack of a deep story

  • squad
  • sandbox
  • survival
  • rpg
  • open-world
  • post-apocalyptic
  • free-roaming
  • farming
  • management
  • open-ended
  • real-time
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • empire
  • travelling

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Mass Effect 2007 (2010)

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PC Windows Xbox 360 Playstation 3

As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.

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  • rpg
  • cover
  • tps
  • squad
  • sci-fi
  • shooter
  • customization
  • combat
  • interactive
  • inventory
  • story
  • action
  • tactical
  • character-driven
  • narrative

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Mass Effect (2007)

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Xbox One PC Windows Xbox 360

As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy. Discover the imminent danger from an ancient threat and battle the traitorous Saren and his deadly army to save civilization. The fate of all life depends on your actions!


  • sci-fi
  • rpg
  • squad
  • combat
  • tps
  • vehicle
  • shooter
  • cover
  • story
  • third-person
  • aliens
  • kinect
  • romantic
  • narrative
  • romance

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VenusBlood FRONTIER International (2020)

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PC Windows

VenusBlood Frontier International is a strategy RPG, visual novel and adult content game in which you play as Loki, the grandson of Dark Lord Surt. Your goal is to conquer the floating island of Yggdrasil and bring back a powerful item that has been hidden there. You have various choices to make throughout the game, from corruting goddesses or letting them remain pure, to playing the game on normal or hard mode.

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What we like:
  • Extensive amount of choice
  • Clear story
  • Intuitive management system
  • High quality CGs
  • Variety of battle options
What could be improved:
  • Poor tutorials
  • Unintuitive path to unlock the story arc you want

  • visual-novel
  • strategy
  • rpg
  • turn-based
  • battle
  • tactical
  • simulation
  • demons
  • multiple-endings
  • squad

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Angel Legion (2019)

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Android IOS iPhone PC Windows

Idle or play whenever and wherever you want. Customize the looking of your favorite Angels. Automatically accumulate resources all the time.


  • idler
  • mature
  • rpg
  • strategy
  • character
  • squad
  • anime
  • adventure
  • customization
  • mmo
  • multiplayer

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Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption (2018)

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Playstation 5 j Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption is a humorous fantasy role-playing adventure game by Lori and Corey Cole, creators of the acclaimed Quest for Glory series. As the Rogue Shawn O'Conner, players will make friends, explore a haunted castle, and use their Rogue skills for fun and profit.


  • point-and-click
  • dungeon
  • dungeon
  • rpg
  • rpg
  • adventure
  • turn-based
  • adventure
  • turn-based
  • isometric
  • isometric
  • combat
  • combat
  • steampunk
  • steampunk
  • pirates
  • pirates
  • retro
  • stealth
  • retro
  • choices
  • tactical
  • old-school
  • time-management
  • stealth
  • choices
  • tactical
  • old-school
  • story

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