(CriticalIndieGamer) Heroes of Steel is a turn-based RPG developed by Trese Brothers, a small developer who also make mobile games. It is their first attempt at bridging their work to the desktop via Desura. The game is set in the post-apocalyptic world of Steel and the player controls 4 unique characters, each with special skills and individual talents.
From dungeon crawlers to Souls-likes to state-of-the-art MMOs and story-driven classics, there is something for every fan of Android RPGs.
It's only as gross as you let it be. Slap a controller on a phone/tablet and get great games like Dead Cells or the like, and you're having a perfectly good time. It would never be my primary way to play games, but it is certainly able to be a solid supplementary platform.
Thanks for reminding me Square makes terrible mobile ports most the time and then copy pastes them to Steam.
Most of this list can and should be played in its original format on console or PC.
For many, the premise behind a list of the best Android RPGs amounts to a contradiction in terms. Most of us who work and play in the mobile gaming sphere do in fact understand that our platform of choice is the red-haired stepchild of the gaming industry. Believe it or not, if you dig down a level deeper into the sub-cellar of small one, two-man indie dev teams, you have a subgenre that is the village idiot of the gaming industry. Thing is, as with the best social misfits, some genuinely compelling stuff has reared its wholly head out of the depths of gaming’s social underbelly.
SteamFirst: It was with great trepidation that I approached Trese Brothers’ Heroes of Steel. I hate to judge a book by its cover (or name in this case), but the name was so achingly generic that even after my time with the game, I still have to double check that I am correct in identification.
