There are some role-playing game insider tips hidden on Steam – for example Sir Brante.
From today’s perspective, it’s hard to say what humanity invented first – the wheel or the Steam sale – but the fact is: We’ve already recommended a whole bunch of role-playing games that were heavily discounted at some point on Steam, GOG or elsewhere. So today we’re taking on a challenge like the TikTok crowd! We’re recommending games that we’ve never highlighted prominently in an article before.
There are so many role-playing game insider tips on Steam that you hardly hear about in the mainstream. It’s time for that to change.
1. The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante: Trailer for the role-playing game insider tip
- Subgenre: Text role play
- Release: 4 March 2021
- Price & Discount: 8 dollars (60 percent discount)
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante revives a subgenre that is almost 50 years old: the text adventure or text role-playing game. You follow the fate of the eponymous Sir Brante from childhood to the end of his life; and of course you decide for yourself which path the sprightly squire should take.
The role-playing game takes place in an early modern setting, tinkers with all sorts of role-playing values in the background, but ultimately it’s primarily about making the right or wrong decisions. This not only increases the replay value of Sir Brante enormously, but also makes the experience incredibly vivid in your mind. You just need to bring a little imagination with you, because of course most of the action takes place in text form.
Click here to see Sir Brante’s Steam offer
2. Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga
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Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga – Trailer for the PC alternative to Fire Emblem
- Subgenre: Strategy role-playing game
- Release: June 10, 2022
- Price & Discount: 10 dollars (50 percent)
Because of the generic title, Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga sounds like the RPG Maker project of a 14-year-old, but behind it lies a really cool strategy role-playing game in the wake of Fire Emblem. In a fantasy scenario, you raise your own army, but unlike in Fire Emblem, you control entire squads that you populate with individual characters who in turn level up and, and, and.
So, turn by turn, you lead your troops against enemy challengers and counter soldiers with archers, archers with cavalry, tear down fortresses, and so on. If you like Fire Emblem, Symphony of War is a fun PC equivalent for a low price.
Click here to see Symphony of War’s Steam offer
3. Live a Live
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Live A Live – Trailer announces remake of the RPG classic for PS4, PS5 and PC – Trailer announces remake of the RPG classic for PS4, PS5 and PC
- Subgenre: JRPG
- Release: 27. April 2023
- Price & Discount: 25 dollars (50 percent)
Sometimes it takes a while to get to the happy ending – in the case of Live a Live, it took a whole 30 years! For over three decades, this role-playing gem existed exclusively for the Japanese Super Famicom (the Japanese Super Nintendo, so to speak). It was not until 2023 that it was translated for the western market; but in the form of a remake in the 2.5 graphic style of Octopath Traveller and Triangle Strategy.
And even today, Live a Live is still completely unique. You don’t just play one character, but seven – and unlike Octopath Traveller, you even play across different eras. Sometimes in the Stone Age, sometimes in the Wild West, sometimes in Edo-era Japan – and at the very end, perhaps all paths converge somehow.
Click here to see Live a Live’s Steam offer
4. Geneforge 1 – Mutagen
- Subgenre: Oldschool RPG
- Release: 24 February 2021
- Price & Discount: 7 dollars (60 percent discount)
Geneforge originally came from a time when classic PC role-playing games were rarer than a promise kept by Peter Molyneux. While the rest of the gaming world preferred sleeker genres in the early 2000s, indie developer Spiderweb stayed true to the legacy of Baldur’s Gate. And still does to this day.
Geneforge 1 – Mutagen is the 2021 remake of the first Geneforge, although Remake
in this case, it primarily means: It runs on modern systems. In pretty much every other respect, Geneforge remains as old school as possible. You control your group of heroes from an isometric view of a mysterious island, read through excitingly written dialogues and fight your way through turn-based battles.
The special thing about Geneforge: You play a so-called shaper, a Pokémon trainer, who summons his own creatures and sends them into battle. Your troop of heroes does not consist of magicians, warriors and bards, but of summoned dinosaurs and other creatures that will smash heads for you. Geneforge is worth playing precisely because of the excellent story and variety of decisions. There are dozens of possible endings, and you can also play through the entire adventure without a single battle.
Click here to see the Steam offer for Geneforge 1 – Mutagen
5. Front Mission 1st Remake
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Turn-based tactics with mechs: Front Mission 1st: Remake in the explosive trailer
- Subgenre: Strategy role-playing game
- Release: June 30, 2023
- Price & Discount: 17 dollars (50 percent)
Two-legged robots have many names. Mechs, Mechas, Walkers – but the absolutely worst name comes from Front Mission 1st Remake, where the fighting machines are simply called Wanzers. The Japanese mishmash loan word from Walking Panzer
may only sound like a kitchen plague to Europe ears, but you shouldn’t let that stop you from giving this strategy role-playing game a chance.
Because Front Mission 1st is basically Fire Emblem with mechs. You get involved in a war between two factions, recruit new pilots, equip your fighting machines with all kinds of weapons down to the last detail and then blast your way through more than a dozen tough missions.
The remake improves the graphics of the SNES original massively, but overall Front Mission plays rather old-fashioned, especially in the menu navigation. Still worth recommending for little money.
Click here to see the Steam offer for Front Mission 1st – Remake
So much for our recommendations. If you know of any other unknown role-playing games or other Steam recommendations, please post them in the comments so that everyone can benefit from them. The Steam Sale runs until July 11, 2024, so you still have a while to think carefully about your purchases.
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