Want something that feels retro and story-driven the way 8-Bit Adventures 2 does? These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.
Eight travelers cross the world of Orsterra, each with a separate story to finish. Pick a starting hero, gather the rest, and travel region to region through turn-based fights built around finding weaknesses and breaking defenses. Worth playing for the combat system, the look, and the music, with eight short tales instead of one long epic.
Retro, Story-driven, Colorful
A 16-bit style JRPG about ending a generations-old war across the continent of Valandis, where dragons share the sky with piloted mechs. Fast turn-based battles, no random encounters, an airship to call your own, and 30 to 40 hours of story worth following.
Retro, Story-driven, Colorful
Gorgeous pixel art. Intense, blazing fast battles. An epic adventure. This is the must-play retro indie JRPG built for the modern era.
Retro, Story-driven, Colorful
The full-scale, epic fantasy role-playing experience you've wanted for decades--Divided Reigns retains what made the JRPG classics so fantastic while still feeling fresh. Expect strategic battles, an epic scale, well-developed characters, and a deep and emotional story. Perfect for your Steam Deck!
Retro, Story-driven, Colorful
Beloved Rapture is an indie jRPG inspired by the classics. Explore beautiful landscapes, fight in turn-based battles, and uncover many secrets. This mid-length adventure balances both an intimate coming of age story, and larger threats looming over the troubled kingdom.
Retro, Story-driven, Colorful
Retro RPG that takes inspiration from SNES and PS1 classics. Action turn-based battle system with skill learning, slots for stat boosting, equipment crafting, monster catching, rank based Colosseum, and side quests. 30+ hour emotional story with adult-oriented themes and powerful original soundtrack.
Retro, Story-driven, Colorful
Crystal Story II is a turn-based RPG that follows the story of a young Dragon on his quest to defeat an evil witch. He must seek allies to aid him on his journey and save the world from the oncoming invasion.
Retro, Story-driven, Colorful
A SNES-style JRPG where the whole world is made of garbage, dreamed up by two actual janitors. Guide Trash Can Knight Dustin Binsley across the Five and a Half Kingdoms of the Dump, fight on a battle grid with timed hits, and swap party members to climb, rust and bubble your way through dungeons. Funny, colorful and full of puns, it recaptures the 16-bit era with real heart.
Retro, Story-driven, Colorful
A turn-based RPG built from a 90s comic, with hand-drawn art, six heroes to mix into a party of three, and dungeons that rearrange themselves every visit. Battles run on a clever overcharge system, loot and crafting feed your build, and there is fishing. It gets grindy in stretches, but the fighting is worth it.
Retro, Story-driven, Colorful
Familiar tales can take unfamiliar turns! And it's up to you to reconstruct the story!
Retro, Story-driven, Colorful
A turn-based RPG where two Children of the Solstice wield sun and moon magic against an evil alchemist. Timed hits, combo attacks and clever locks keep battles active, while a gorgeous pixel world begs to be explored by land and sea. Playable solo or with up to three friends.
Retro, Story-driven, Colorful
A turn-based RPG that jokes about being a turn-based RPG, then backs it up with real depth: catch almost any enemy, stack status effects into huge combos, and dig through dungeons full of treasure. Funny, colorful and packed with content, it works for casual afternoons and hardcore challenge runs alike.
Retro, Story-driven, Colorful
8-Bit Adventures: The Forgotten Journey Remastered Edition is a retro-styled JRPG with polish and personality, that focuses less on references and…
Gorgeous pixel art. Intense, blazing fast battles. An epic adventure. This is the must-play retro indie JRPG built for the modern era.
The full-scale, epic fantasy role-playing experience you've wanted for decades--Divided Reigns retains what made the JRPG classics so fantastic…
Beloved Rapture is an indie jRPG inspired by the classics. Explore beautiful landscapes, fight in turn-based battles, and uncover many secrets.
Retro RPG that takes inspiration from SNES and PS1 classics.
Crystal Story II is a turn-based RPG that follows the story of a young Dragon on his quest to defeat an evil witch.
A nonlinear JRPG where the whole voxel world is yours to explore, with turn-based party battles and secrets around every cliff.
Simultaneously a love letter to and a parody of classic role-playing games, Sojourner is the retro RPG that the world has been craving.
Guide Lita and her companions across an open sky realm, unraveling an ancient vampire threat in a heartfelt retro adventure.
The Greater Good is a stylized homage to classic turn-based RPGs.
Lead four heroes through a colorful, funny RPG where deep turn-based battles and cute enemies share the screen.
A 2D action RPG fourteen years in the making. Slash through monsters, melt screen-filling bosses with Possession Skills, and follow a story that…
A SNES-style JRPG where the whole world is made of garbage, dreamed up by two actual janitors.
A series of unlikely train robberies. A mysterious deck of cards. A fleet of deadly airships. An accidental mage.
Beyond Galaxyland is a thrilling adventure-RPG combining cosmic exploration, strategic turn-based combat, and epic boss battle events across a vast…
Beloved Rapture is an indie jRPG inspired by the classics. Explore beautiful landscapes, fight in turn-based battles, and uncover many secrets.
Gather companions, explore the world, ascend the throne!
A nonlinear JRPG where the whole voxel world is yours to explore, with turn-based party battles and secrets around every cliff.
On the eve of history's greatest war, eight unlikely heroes rise to challenge an empire and change the fate of a continent.
Protect a noblewoman reckoning with unholy powers as she wards off the soul of the Demon King sealed inside her.
This is a retro 8-bit pixel-style RPG. The game features turn-based combat, inviting players to explore the unknown in a fantastical world.
Eight travelers, eight reasons to cross the sea-divided land of Solistia.
A 16-bit style JRPG about ending a generations-old war across the continent of Valandis, where dragons share the sky with piloted mechs.
A turn-based RPG where two Children of the Solstice wield sun and moon magic against an evil alchemist.
This is a retro 8-bit pixel-style RPG. The game features turn-based combat, inviting players to explore the unknown in a fantastical world.
Swing seven weapon types through history with your fairy at your side, and see how hard a gentle tale can land.
A SNES-style JRPG where the whole world is made of garbage, dreamed up by two actual janitors.
A series of unlikely train robberies. A mysterious deck of cards. A fleet of deadly airships. An accidental mage.
Beloved Rapture is an indie jRPG inspired by the classics. Explore beautiful landscapes, fight in turn-based battles, and uncover many secrets.
Beyond Galaxyland is a thrilling adventure-RPG combining cosmic exploration, strategic turn-based combat, and epic boss battle events across a vast…
Discover a 3d wooden puppet style world while exploring as a platformer, and taking battles in a turn-based combat as an old school RPG where timing…
A turn-based RPG where two Children of the Solstice wield sun and moon magic against an evil alchemist.
Embark on a journey through the living world of Alteria and experience its dynamic quests, unique turn-based combat, and choice-driven storylines.
A JRPG style fantasy game reminiscent of SNES classics. Guide Madilyn, Hiro and Winter as they embark on an epic quest to save Spyria from the…
Absinthia is a turn-based RPG featuring the story of scorned Knight Freya, her young apprentice Sera, and their individual struggles with loss…
Eight travelers, eight reasons to cross the sea-divided land of Solistia.
