Games with a similar combat system?

[EarACorn]

Hello! I am an avid DND fan and I absolutely adore the turn based combat system of BG3. Does anyone have recommendations for story based RPGs with a similar turn based system? I'm not really into Sci-fi so would prefer fantasy games, but am open to other genres except sci-fi (Especially horror)
Thanks! :3

[Detective Costeau]

There's a game called Solasta: Crown of the Magister that uses the same D&D 5e rules and turn-based combat.
Just be aware it's much more oriented towards the combat side of the game than story, if that matters to you.

[EarACorn]

Originally posted by Detective Costeau:

There's a game called Solasta: Crown of the Magister that uses the same D&D 5e rules and turn-based combat.
Just be aware it's much more oriented towards the combat side of the game than story, if that matters to you.

Awesome, I'll take a look! Honestly, I'd be down for a more combat oriented game, Sometimes I wanted to play BG3 just for the combat sections lol

[everybe2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZEJkUdHICc

[Rich_T]

Jagged Aliance 3 (and 1+2) are turn based and great fun with a very in depth combat system

[yaerav]

Probably not writing anything new and profound here, buuut, the predecesors of BG3 are Neverwinter Nights, Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment, and of couse BG1 and 2. More recent turn-based D&D-like (ok,. skip the "like" ;-) ) games are Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. I have never played that last one though, since I was a bit disappointed about Kingmaker (the campaign is nice, the companions are nice too, but 2/3rds into the game it starts to feel increasingly grindy. Until that point I did have a lot of fun with it though)

[Hobocop]

Larian's last two games, Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2, are also worth a look. One could argue that their combat systems are more robust than BG3's as they're much more focused on environmental interactions and spell combos during combat along with having an AP system as opposed to set action types. Character building is also classless; you simply assign points into skill categories and attributes as desired, and it can be a lot of fun to find synergies both within a single character and the party as a whole.

Also really interesting to see how far Larian has come since going fully independent.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Second the "Solasta: Crown of the Magister" recommendation. It's very tightly based on the same rule set (it's actually at closer to the tabletop rules than BG3 is).

Two caveats:

* They only had license to use the SRD5.1 content, not e.g. full PHB content, so they couldn't use most of the official subclasses and monsters etc. and instead made their own.

* It's much lower budget and they didn't spend a lot on visuals, so it's quite the ugly game. :D

Unlike BG3, it did include support for user-created adventures and there's quite a few in the Steam Workshop. There is also the "Unfinished Business" megamod ( https://github.com/SolastaMods/SolastaUnfinishedBusiness ) which adds quite a lot of options and features, and which is highly configurable.


If you want more tactical, maybe look at Iron Tower's games ("Age of Decadence", "Colony Ship"; note that the former is notoriously punishing if you do things like... oh, assume that you'll win fights because you're the protagonist hero), or perhaps Owlcat's PF1-based games.

[Awaken]

Disgaea games, Wasteland 2 and 3, Shadowrun games.

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Originally posted by yaerav:

Probably not writing anything new and profound here, buuut, the predecesors of BG3 are Neverwinter Nights, Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment, and of couse BG1 and 2. More recent turn-based D&D-like (ok,. skip the "like" ;-) ) games are Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. I have never played that last one though, since I was a bit disappointed about Kingmaker (the campaign is nice, the companions are nice too, but 2/3rds into the game it starts to feel increasingly grindy. Until that point I did have a lot of fun with it though)

Only the 2 of gmes of these are TB, the rest are RTwP. Some like it, I personally think it's a frankstein mix of ARPG and TB, mixing the worst aspects of both to give you the worst gameplay experience possible.
The 2 Pathfinder Games also depend on RTwP Encounter design, which makes their TB combat experience rather weaksauce.
If you want the TB combat you might enjoy some of the XCom games. I personally prefer the classic ones especially the original 1994 XCom but also the direct sequel, but there are the newer remakes by firaxis, which many enjoy.
There's also Xenonauts and Xenonauts 2, which are more or less trying to recreate the original XCom, and are much more faithful to the original then the Firaxis remakes.

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Originally posted by Sentient_Toaster:

There is also the "Unfinished Business" megamod ( https://github.com/SolastaMods/SolastaUnfinishedBusiness ) which adds quite a lot of options and features, and which is highly configurable.

Iirc the devs of Solasta even endorsed unfinished business, in case you think one shouldn't use mods for the original experience.

[DeMasked]

Divinity Original Sin 2 is rather quite good.

I wouldn't touch Solasta unless you got the Unfinished Business and even then that game is barely a recommend for me. I like the fully voiced campaigns with the party interacting with each other and when talking to npcs they all are present.

[[TG] zac]

Pathfinder wrath of the righteous & Pathfinder kingmaker.
Both use the pathfinder 1e rule set so there will be a lot more choices and character customization (sadly we don't have a pathfinder 2e based game yet because that system is a lot better balanced)

Wrath has you leading an army of crusaders against a demon invasion from the abyss.
Kingmaker has you removing the bandits from a stretch of wildlands (heavily celtic inspired), setting up a kingdom etc...

Neverwinter nights 1 & 2 is based on the older 3.0-.5 rule set and is 3d instead of isometric like the 2 above.
It also still has modules being made to this day by players despite being 20 years old since it got a full mod kit.

The shadowrun games are also really good (the setting is a modern day one but with all the fantasy races & magic)

Other good games I would suggest
Planescape torment
Baldur's gate 1 & 2.
(note they are older and isometric and based off of older D&D rule sets so they are not for everyone).

[harken23]

Wildermyth is kind of fun, and the stories are literally cut and paste, but the combat is enjoyable and it has a ton of replay value.
I really wasn't impressed with Solasta, and found the Pathfinder games pretty opaque with the systems, and no tutorial to speak of (and I've been playing RPGs since AD&D, and cRPGs since Wizardry on my Apple II+).
The Pillars of Eternity games are excellent, tho only Deadfire has TB combat as an option (I prefer RTwP, actually, and others like it, Planescape Torment, BG1&2, Icewind Dale).

[Tobi89]

Personal take, a lot of these games have already been mentioned here.

Fantasy cRPG games that are turn based like BG 3
Solasta - Pretty similar to this one however it's so much focused on the story or looking good instead it's mostly about the combat however it does the combat very well.

Divinity Original Sin 1 + 2 - Fairly similar to this and made by the same studio, again more focused around the combat in these two games.

Fell Seal - Decent game

Banner lord saga - Has a very nice and epic story but it's not much of an RPG when it comes to creating your own character or controlling the story but outside of that it's great.

Temple of Elemental Evil - Pretty good though it is fairly short focused more on the combat then the story, would recommend looking for a mod with cut content makes it a longer game.

Pathfinder Kingmaker + Wrath of the Righteous - Both are great games set in the pathfinder universe and based of adventures from there, however the two games has an insane amount of classes to pick from and little to no guidance unless you know about the pathfinder setting so it can be really rough for beginners, recommended to watch some videos on the system + classes unless you wanna play on story difficulty or learn on your own. The games also allows you to choose if you wanna play turn based or real time.

Pillars of eternity 1 + 2 - Pretty good story especially in the first game it's set in a more dark fantasy so there is a lot of doom and gloom in the story. You can also transfer characters between the games here however this won't affect your character in anyway instead you carry over your choices in PoE 1 that affects PoE 2 to a small degree. Allows to pick between real time and turn based.

Other cRPG that are turn based
Wasteland 2 + 3 - Set in an apocalyptic future so they have a bit of focus on survival as well as combat.

Shadowrun - Basically future fantasy setting.

Underrail - This is also another apocalypse future setting game and it's hard like really really hard the game puts a lot of focus on building a well thought out character to play with and then using it correctly, not for the faint hearted, it's basically what the souls serie is for 3rd person aRPG is but for turned based RPG's turned up to 11.

Other cRPG's that are not turn based.

Baldurs gate 1 + 2 - Works on an earlier DnD ruleset and aren't turn based both games are some of my favorite games and got me into cRPG's in the first place. The story in especially BG 2 is great, the games also allows you to carry over your character fom BG 1 to BG 2 doesn't really make much difference if you do outside of the fact that your character can be quite a bit more powerful if you do that. You can for instance find items that give you a permanent boost to stats in BG 1 and lvl up to a higher lvl then you would normally start in BG 2.

Tyranny - Great game that let's you play as the bad guys, basically set after the demon king has won the day and is now mopping up the last resistance and dividing the lands. Sadly the game feels a bit incomplete and my understanding is that the devs had to rush the game out.

Arcanum of steamworks and magick obscura - This is a pretty good game but the game just drops you in the wilderness pretty much and there is next to no handholding or such which some people like while others don't.

Planescape torment - This is a game that is very story heavy and combat is pretty much a side thing, you can from my memory pretty much get past most of the game simply by talking though there are some forced combat, the game is kinda tilted towards mages both becaues of combat but also story reasons, you are however free to change between rogue, warrior and mage so play what you like. Possibly has the best story I've ever played in a cRPG.

[Cass]

Check out Expeditions: Rome if you're at all interested in the setting. It's a lower-budget title (at least compared to BG3), but unlike a lot of its peers it's fully voiced. Also the soundtrack absolutely slaps.