Disgaea PC Tactics comedy with levels up to 9999

Laharl, prince of the Netherworld, sleeps through his own father's funeral and wakes up two years later to find the whole realm in turmoil. His plan is simple: beat up everyone in the way and take the throne. Helping (and hindering) him are Etna, a vassal with her own agenda, and Flonne, an angel trainee who really believes in love. The joke of the setting is that good and evil are flipped: bad behavior gets celebrated, and being a decent person is the weird choice. The story is character-driven comedy first, with the three leads bickering their way through a world where demons only follow whoever hits hardest.

Battles are turn-based on square maps, with up to ten units deployed from a base panel you can retreat to. The fun comes from the tricks. Geo Panels turn parts of the map into a color-matching puzzle: chain the right squares together and the whole board changes in your favor. Lift & Throw lets your units pick each other up and toss them onto ledges an enemy thought were safe, or grab an enemy and rearrange the battlefield entirely. Adjacent units land team attacks, and over 40 character types, from fighters to monsters, give you plenty of ways to build a squad. Some mechanics show their age, like throwing only in straight lines, but the toolbox is deep.