Games Like The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd (2026)

Shared: Turn-Based Combat, JRPG, Story-Rich

Fifty-plus hours of found-family melodrama and turn-based brawling in Yokohama, wrapped around one of the most earnest protagonists JRPGs have produced in years. If you can stomach occasional grind walls, this one sticks with you.

Shared: Turn-Based Combat, JRPG

Ninety-plus hours of turn-based brawling, monster collecting, island resort management, and one of the most emotionally gutting dual-protagonist stories in recent JRPG memory. If your backlog is already overwhelming, look away now.

Shared: Turn-Based Combat, Party Management

Owlcat's grimdark CRPG drops you into the 41st Millennium as a Rogue Trader with a warrant of trade, a voidship, and companions who will absolutely judge your every choice.

Shared: JRPG, Character-Driven

Tales of Arise is Bandai Namco's most ambitious action-RPG in the series, blending flashy real-time combat with a story about slavery, resistance, and what freedom actually costs.

Shared: story-rich

Proof that dying can be the best part of a story: Hades turns every failed escape attempt into a character beat, and the combat is sharp enough that you will want to fail a few more times just to try the shield next run.