7 great Tactical RPGs that every developer should study

We reached out to several developers who were influenced by great tactical RPGs, and asked them to select some instructive exemplars.

It’s easy to fall in a trap of thinking of tactical RPGs as just being regular RPGs with combat set to a grid, or as being straight tactics and strategy games with character levelling, but in truth the genre is much richer.

But tactical RPGs also touch on ideas that transcend their genre.