What's your favorite RPG to date on IOS and why? Can be any sub-type of RPG obviously, like strategy based, action based or roguelike. Whatever.
It'd be hard to pick just one but here are some standouts... Kingturn Underworld - expansive content with challenging chess like turn based strategy matches in a grand political plot. Fall of Angels - adventure game puzzles in a JRPG exploration/combat world, I consider it to be the best JRPG exclusive to iOS. WazHack - a 2D sidescrolled roguelike with metroidvania elements that is challenging but so much fun to explore. The Quest Gold - insane first person turn based dungeon crawling with mind numbing amounts of content and exploration.
Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions. The original PSX version jumpstarted my liking for RPGs and tactical games and it's pretty legendary itself. Fantastic depth to the system, a dark story with stand out characters, charmingly beautiful art, memorable music, and tons of secrets to find, this complexity stands to be my all-time #1. Pretty excited for Yasumi Matsuno's kickstarter project Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians
King of Dragonpass. After that, several memorable ones: The Spiderweb games: Avadon and the Avernums. Kingturn Underworld, if we count tactics games with story. Then Ravenmark qualifies as well, and its fantastic worldbuilding gives it a close second place to KoDP. The Quest series gets a honorable mention for sheer amount of worldbuilding and content; even though I could not warm up to the later ones. Sidenote: We need an RPG lounge thread. Nothing like undeadcow's awesome list, just a place to come by and say "hey, found this gem, take a look." I can of course offer the Antwar Saloon for that. Or we start a new one. Does anyone know a name of a famous inn of the "upon entering a dark-hooded stranger approaches you: 'You look like adventurers, and I have just the job for you' " kind?
Yes, I agree with Nullzone. I am just starting to get into RPG's and can't decide on which one I should start with. Plus the price on some through me off but if its good enough then I will get it.
Welcome to a great genre then You won't regret it. Do you know what you like? E.g. more action-oriented, story and world, great graphics? Recommendations will vary a lot, depending on your preferences And many good RPGs have a higher pricepoint (well, for iOS at least, I still think 10 are a joke). Look at e.g. Baldur's Gate, widely recognised as one of the best ever. With every additional content, it clocks in at ~20.
As soon as I read favourite rpg I was about to dash into the threads and scream 'Morrowind!' But then I see it's iOS. Hmm okay! I would have said 9th Dawn as I loved that game but since the last update the screen no longer autorotate and now I can't play the damn game anymore and the dev is not responding to PM's or emails. So.. Now my vote will pass to:- a tie between Questlord and Ultima IV.
I have two that I'm currently enjoying the hell out of. BGII (lots of content and I used to love D&D). FF6 (lots of characters and great story).
That's a tough one. Lately, I also have been enjoying Shadow Sun, which I think is underrated, as well as 9th Dawn and Doom & Destiny. I know some people put down the Kemco games, but I still count Fantasy Chronicle amongst my favorite turn-based iOS RPGs. And Stone of Life is a favorite KRPG. Then there's The World Ends With You, Final Fantasy Dimensions and the Chaos Rings games. KOTOR for Star Wars buffs. And PeteOzzy reminded me of one of my big favorites -- Bastion. Oceanhorn too if you include more Zelda-esque RPG/adventure games.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds this to be a very tough decision. 9th Dawn, Avernum, Baldur's Gate, Bastion, Dungelot, Dungeon Plunder, Isle of Bxnes, King of Dragon Pass and countless others really deserve mentions but if I were to choose just one? The World Ends With You. But yeah, there are so many deserving to take its' place. I'm spoilt for RPGs on iOS! Edit: I maybe forgot KOTOR, I think that may replace TWEWY...
Skill-based combat with a strong RPG progression elements and a full on story backed up by 2 books, Infinity Blade series would have to be my favorite on iOS. My other favorite RPGs on iOS are the ff: Chaos Rings series Doom & Destiny TWEWY KOTOR Symphony of the Origin Slayin (even though it has only minor RPG elements) Heroes of Loot (as with Slayin) Heroes & Castles (as with Slayin)
