It’s the Golden Week Sale on Steam! Being a Japanese holiday, lots of Japanese games are discounted in celebration, so naturally, that includes some top-tier tactical RPGs.
That’s not all, though, as we’ve also found some excellent deals on TRPG outside the sale as well. If you love a good flank attack, optimizing your soldiers’ Job Skills, and pondering the ideal square to stand on, you won’t want to miss these games while their prices are low.
Persona 5 Tactica
- Developer: ATLUS
- Release Date: 16 November, 2023
- Platform: Windows, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
- Steam Page
Persona stands near the top of the list when it comes to traditional JRPGs, and Persona 5 is a contender for the franchise’s best, but it turns out that Atlus makes a pretty fine tactical RPG with the series as well.
Persona 5 Tactica is a spinoff featuring the cast of the main game in an all-new adventure, where the Phantom Thieves lead a revolution in an unfamiliar world.
Steam has Persona 5 Tactica listed at 70% off until 7 May, taking this pricey $59.99 title down to $17.99. The Digital Deluxe edition, which includes extra challenges, weapons, and more, is an even better deal; at 75% off, it’s down to $19.99, just a hair more than the standard edition!
FINAL FANTASY TACTICS – The Ivalice Chronicles
- Developer: Square Enix
- Release Date: 30 September, 2025
- Platform: Windows, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
- Steam Page
Final Fantasy Tactics truly needs no introduction. Its thrilling isometric battles, intrigue-laden story, and deep Job System have made it a foundational classic among tactical RPGs.
The Ivalice Chronicles, a 2025 remake featuring voiced dialogue, enhanced graphics, and tons of quality-of-life improvements, is the definitive version of this masterpiece. You can even play on Classic Mode for the original 1997 experience, too!
Both the Standard and Deluxe Editions of Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles are 30% off on Steam until 7 May, taking them from $49.99 and $59.99 to $34.99 and $41.99, respectively. This is a game that belongs in every RPG fan’s collection, so now is a great time to make sure it’s a part of yours.
Redemption Reapers
- Developer: Adglobe
- Release Date: 22 February, 2023
- Platform: Windows, PlayStation, Switch
- Steam Page
If you’re looking for an under-the-radar TRPG with some solid party-building and combos, Redemption Reapers could be the game for you.
Your squad of five elite mercenaries – each with unique talents and build options – is all you have to face against the seemingly unstoppable Mort. It’s a dark-fantasy war story with a small cast, letting you get to know each of the five team members as they struggle against the unrelenting foe.
Redemption Reapers usually goes for $24.99, but until 10 May, you can get it on Steam for just $9.99, saving 60%.
Prime of Flames
- Developer: RAYKA STUDIO
- Release Date: 14 December, 2022
- Platform: Windows, Mac
- Steam Page
Prime of Flames combines the satisfaction of grid-based tactical battles with the replayability of a roguelite, offering endless chances to take command of its numerous factions and uncover the hidden history of the world. With over a hundred characters, each a playable unit, and multiple game modes, this is an indie project with lots to offer.
Prime of Flames is already pretty affordable at just $9.99 on Steam, but until 4 May you can save 55% on the platform and get it for just $4.49. It’s also offered as a bundle with Rayka’s other game, Yaoling, letting you save a bit on the pair.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown
- Developer: Strange Scaffold
- Release Date: 22 May, 2025
- Platform: Windows
- Steam Page
There have been a bunch of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video games over the decades, including some real classics, but most fall into the platformer or beat-em-up genres.
Tactical Takedown is the first turn-based adventure for the Heroes On The Half-Shell, and it works just as well as any arcade brawler. All four turtles get their time in the limelight throughout the campaign, and you’ll have plenty of opportunity to take down the Foot Clan in classic fashion… on a grid!
TMNT: Tactical Takedown is 35% off on Steam until 2 May, taking its price from $19.99 to $12.99. The game is also offered with several bundles, mostly themed around other Turtles like action roguelike Splintered Fate.
Nemesis: Lockdown
- Developer: InterStudio
- Release Date: 31 May, 2022
- Platform: Windows
- Steam Page
Tabletop fans might be familiar with Nemesis: Lockdown as the award-winning sci-fi horror boardgame that’s seen you and your friends get eaten by aliens time and time again.
The digital version is a faithful adaptation, bringing loads of atmosphere that really drops you into a claustrophobic, dangerous space facility. Whether you’re playing solo or multiplayer, every choice matters if you want to make it out alive.
Getting the digital version is certainly a cheaper alternative than the physical boardgame at $24.99, and you can get Nemesis: Lockdown even cheaper still on Steam until 2 May. It’s 70% off, knocking the price down to a very enticing $7.49. You can also get it bundled with Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace for more boardgame fun, with Nemesis: Distress, an Early-Access survival horror FPS in the same universe!
BANCHOU TACTICS
- Developer: SECRET CHARACTER, ITSARAAMATA
- Release Date: 10 August, 2023
- Platform: Windows, Switch
- Steam Page
Banchou Tactics is a grid-based love letter to the iconic banchou genre of anime and manga. Blending crime, high school drama, and martial arts, these tales of teenage gangs have tons of macho charm, and the game lives up to their legacy.
You’ll use your special attacks, powerful combos, and clever knockbacks to prove your strength and make the gangs of Minato High School fall in line!
Banchou Tactics is 42% off on Steam until 1 May, letting you get this $19.99 game for just $11.59. You can also get it in a bundle with Secret Character’s cooking sim, Yakiniku Simulator.
The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-
- Developer: Too Kyo Games, Media Vision Inc.
- Release Date: 24 April, 2025
- Platform: Windows, Switch
- Steam Page
If you like Persona or Danganronpa and haven’t yet tried The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, this is one tactical game you need to check out.
Fifteen students, total strangers, are tasked with defending a school campus on their own from interdimensional invaders for one hundred days. Your choices will decide who lives, who dies, and what happens in the bloody aftermath.
The Hundred Line has a demo available on Steam, and until 30 April you can get the full game for 40% off. That takes the price form $59.99 down to $35.99; there’s no discount on the Deluxe Edition at this time, though.
Metal Slug Tactics
- Developer: Leikir Studio
- Release Date: 5 November, 2024
- Platform: Windows, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
- Steam Page
It’s actually shocking how well Leikir Studio adapted the frantic, run-and-gun gameplay of Metal Slug to a turn-based TRPG roguelite.
Not only does Metal Slug Tactics capture the look, sound, and feel of the arcade classics, but the gameplay – which demands that your units keep moving even as they seek cover, combo off of one another, and contend with massive bosses – also feels right at home as a spinoff.
Even if you never played the arcade games, Metal Slug Tactics is good fun, and Steam has it listed at $14.99 until 1 May. That’s 40% off its standard price of $24.99, and you can also get it bundled with some of the arcade originals for some old-school mayhem.
Absolute Tactics: Daughters of Mercy
- Developer: Curious Fate
- Release Date: 15 September, 2022
- Platform: Windows, PlayStation, Switch
- Steam Page
Absolute Tactics is a game by and for fans of classics like Final Fantasy Tactics. It’s got 21 classes to build your team around, including the ability to dual-class, and its hand-drawn style is a departure from the standard anime fare.
It also offers a good amount of replayability, with multiple difficulty levels and a Hardcore Mode for those seeking a major challenge.
Absolute Tactics: Daughters of Mercy is 40% off on Steam, but only until 29 April – act fast if you want to get it at the discount. The sale applies to both the standard version ($14.99 from $24.99) and the Deluxe Edition (18.33 from $30.57), or you can get it bundled with another solid tactical RPG, Tyrant’s Blessing.
Tactics Ogre: Reborn
- Developer: Square Enix
- Release Date: 11 November, 2022
- Platform: Windows, PlayStation, Switch
- Steam Page
Practically everyone who loves TRPGs has heard of Final Fantasy Tactics, but for a while you had to be a serious fan to know about Tactics Ogre. With just as much depth of gameplay and story, it’s easy to see why this classic is held in just as high regard as its contemporary among those who remember it. Thankfully, Tactics Ogre: Reborn is a chance for players to give it a try now – better late than never!
Both the Standard and Digital Premium Editions of Tactics Ogre: Reborn are discounted 70% on Steam until 7 May. That means you can get the Standard Edition for $14.99 down fromm $49.99, or the Digital Premium Edition, which includes the soundtrack, for $17.99 down from $59.99.
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
- Developer: Obsidian Entertainment
- Release Date: 8 May, 2018
- Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox
- Steam Page
Larian might be the king of CRPGs these days, but there are tons of other studios producing fantastic in-depth adventures to get lost in as well. Obsidian tops the list with their excellent Pillars of Eternity series, and swashbuckling, high-seas adventure Deadfire is everything you want a fantasy RPG to be.
Deadfire is listed at just $9.99 on Steam until 30 April, letting you save 75% off its standard price of $39.99. Better yet, the Obsidian Edition, which includes all of the game’s DLC, is also 75% off at just $14.99!
Gears Tactics
- Developer: Splash Damage, The Coalition
- Release Date: 28 April, 2020
- Platform: Windows, Xbox
- Steam Page
Gears of War is a perfect pick for adapting an existing series into a tactical RPG, and Gears Tactics has all the over-the-top action of the shooters in turn-based form. It’s loaded with references and Easter eggs for longtime fans, but if you just want to shoot aliens with your chainsaw gun, that’s perfectly fine too.
Gears Tactics usually costs $29.99, but Steam has it at 50% off until 30 April, taking its price down to $14.99. If you want some classic Gears action to go with it, you can also get Tactics bundles with Gears 5 and see if your old shotgun skills still have an edge.
Triangle Strategy
- Developer: Square Enix, ARTDINK
- Release Date: 13 October, 2022
- Platform: Windows, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
- Steam Page
Square Enix has been doing lots of remakes lately, but they’ve snuck in some strong originals over the last few years as well.
Chief among these, where TRPGs are concerned, is Triangle Strategy, an homage to and evolution of the genre they helped build back in the ’90s. Not only will you have gorgeous isometric battles to fight, but your actions will impact how your warband sees you… and how they vote at crucial points in the story.
Triangle Strategy is 60% off on Steam until 7 May, letting you get it for $23.99 rather than the usual $59.99. The Deluxe Edition is similarly discounted, letting you add a digital mini-artbook to your collection for just two dollars more during the sale period.
Wantless : Solace at World’s End
- Developer: Drop Rate Studio
- Release Date: 16 May, 2024
- Platform: Windows
- Steam Page
Wantless is a very cool concept for a roguelite, and a welcome detour from the usual timeloop or multiverse formula.
As a spiritual healer capable of entering a patient’s mind to battle their inner demons, each run is a single procedure. You get a generous allotment of action points, but each action you take gives an AP to every foe on the board – get too greedy, and you’ll be overwhelmed.
Wantless has a free demo available on Steam, and until 4 May you can get the full version at a fantastic 78% off. That means you can pay just $3.95 rather than the standard $17.99. Wantless is also offered in a few bundles, including one with Shardpunk and another with Gloomhaven.
Makai Kingdom: Reclaimed and Rebound
- Developer: Nippon Ichi Software, Codeglue
- Release Date: 10 May, 2022
- Platform: Windows
- Steam Page
Makai Kingdom: Reclaimed and Rebound is the Windows remaster of the 2005 classic Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome.
If you’re a fan of Disgaea, Phantom Brave, or any of NIS’s other bizarre TRPGs, be sure to check this one out. As a devil whose Netherworld was destroyed, you’ll set out to conquer another using powerful magic and troops armed with mighty gear.
Both the Standard and Digital Deluxe Editions of Makai Kingdom are 40% off on Steam until 6 May, letting you get them for $11.99 (down from $19.99) and $16.17 (down from $26.97) respectively. The game is also available bundled with several NIS classics, great for longtime fans looking for nostalgia or newcomers looking to see what all the fuss is about.
Langrisser I & II
- Developer: Chara-ani Corporation
- Release Date: 10 March, 2020
- Platform: Windows, PlayStation, Switch
- Steam Page
Langrisser was an early competitor to the Fire Emblem series, and even made it out of Japan first, releasing in English on the Sega Genesis as Warsong in 1991. As you might expect from such a niche classic, it’s got its fair share of devoted fans, and the 2020 remake of the first two games gives you a chance to join their ranks!
Langrisser I & II are offered as a single title, which has a free demo on Steam. Better yet, it’s 70% off until 6 May, letting you get it for $14.99 rather than $49.99. The Digital Limited Edition, which includes the soundtrack and artbook, is also discounted, as are each of the individual parts of it if you just want to pick and choose.
Great Ambition of the SLIMES
- Developer: altairworks
- Release Date: 26 July, 2023
- Platform: Windows
- Steam Page
Great Ambition of the Slimes gives you an army of the titular monsters with which to conquer the world. The trouble is, if you’ve played your Dragon Quest, you know that slimes are weak. The solution is to absorb and possess enemy troops, turning your pathetic slimes temporarily into mighty warriors! What could go wrong?
If you’re looking for a fun, silly TRPG, Great Ambition of the Slimes is just $7.19 on Steam until 1 May. That’s 40% off its standard price of $11.99.
Chaos Galaxy
- Developer: Han Zhiyu
- Release Date: 16 June, 2020
- Platform: Windows, Switch
- Steam Page
Chaos Galaxy is a very cool grand strategy game; think Romance of the Three Kingdoms meets Gundam and you’ve got a pretty good idea of what to expect.
After the collapse of a galactic empire, you’ll take control of one of the fourteen factions vying for supremacy, each with unique heroes, warships, and mechs to command.
Chaos Galaxy is just $5.24 on Steam until 5 May, a 65% savings from its normal price of $14.99. Given how much game there is here if you don’t mind a steep learning curve, that’s a lot of value. The sequel is also discounted, cutting its normal price of $19.99 in half to $9.99 during the same period.
Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery
- Developer: Shanghai Sunborn Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Release Date: 21 March, 2024
- Platform: Windows, Switch
- Steam Page
Reverse Collapse offers some surprisingly solid tactical gameplay, especially considering it’s spun off from a gacha franchise. Diving deep into a war-torn world on the brink of collapse, it shows that Sunborn can do some serious worldbuilding and character development too.
Unlike its cousins, Code Name Bakery isn’t free-to-play; the good news is, it’s 40% off on Steam until 7 May, taking it from $24.99 down to $14.99. The Deluxe Edition, which includes some swanky outfits for the main cast, is discounted as well, going from $39.99 down to $23.99
