Games Like Valkyria Chronicles
Quick Answer
The closest games to Valkyria Chronicles are Valkyria Chronicles 4, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Triangle Strategy, Front Mission 1st: Remake and Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark. Below are 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Valkyria Chronicles, and what does not.
What Made Valkyria Chronicles Work
Valkyria Chronicles is turn-based tactics where taking your turn means driving the unit yourself in real time, under fire, with a movement bar draining. That hybrid is the whole game, and the watercolour art style and the surprisingly serious war story are why it is remembered rather than filed.
9 Games Like Valkyria Chronicles
2.Fire Emblem: Three Houses
The genre's current standard, with the roster-building to match.
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Modern turn-based tactics that takes its politics seriously.
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Mechs, tactics, and a war story that does not flinch.
More about this game →5.Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
Class-change tactics built on the Final Fantasy Tactics model.
More about this game →7.XCOM 2
If the tension of a unit under fire is what you want, at greater scale.
More about this game →8.Advance Wars
The cleanest expression of turn-based warfare, and it teaches as it goes.
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How These Picks Match Valkyria Chronicles
Valkyria Chronicles is catalogued here as a tactics RPG on the PlayStation 3. All nine picks share at least one of its genre tags — nine strategy games and eight RPGs among them.
Three of the picks have their own list on this site, catalogued under the PlayStation 4, the Nintendo Switch and the Game Boy Advance. Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is from a small or self-published studio. Advance Wars is the one a child and an adult can play together.
| Game | Genre | Shares with Valkyria Chronicles | Where to play |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valkyria Chronicles 4 | Strategy, RPG | Strategy, RPG | PlayStation 4 (catalogued) |
| Fire Emblem: Three Houses | Strategy, RPG | Strategy, RPG | Nintendo Switch (catalogued) |
| Triangle Strategy | Strategy, RPG | Strategy, RPG | — |
| Front Mission 1st: Remake | Strategy, RPG | Strategy, RPG | — |
| Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark | Strategy, RPG, Indie | Strategy, RPG | — |
| Unicorn Overlord | Strategy, RPG | Strategy, RPG | — |
| XCOM 2 | Strategy, RPG | Strategy, RPG | — |
| Advance Wars | Strategy, Family | Strategy | Game Boy Advance (catalogued) |
| Expeditions: Rome | Strategy, RPG | Strategy, RPG | — |
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