Travel to different worlds, recruit a bunch of interesting characters for your team, and develop your skills the way you see fit. The original game is a role-playing classic, and the Android port is great. This game really piles on the extras, too, so there’s still plenty to do even after you’ve beaten the main story. Some might find the shift in tone from the previous games a little jarring, but Chaos Rings III certainly didn’t lose anything in terms of quality. Plus, thanks to the game using a vertical alignment rather than a horizontal one, you can easily sneak in some game time on the sly. Between the deep, morally-complex plot, the challenging scenario design, and the flexible job system, Final Fantasy Tactics offers dozens of hours of strategic pleasure. That’s not even mentioning the cool secrets, which include the ability to recruit a certain famous spiky-haired protagonist from another famous Final Fantasy game. The Banner Saga is the first part of a trilogy following the Norse legends of Ragnarok, but on its own, there’s still plenty of enjoyment here. The tactical battles are challenging and fun to figure out, and you even get to make some choices about the direction the plot moves in. With hundreds of dungeons, multiple characters each with their unique skills, tons of treasure, and hordes of bad guys to kill, Heroes of Steel will keep you busy for a long time. Better still, the Trese Brothers are still frequently adding more content to it.
