RPG War Games for Mac
- There's a long history of games that seek to combine the role playing and war strategy genres, including Shining Force for the Sega Genesis, Final Fantasy Tactics for the Playstation, and most recently, the Disgaea series on the Playstation Two and Three. However, finding Mac compatible games can be a challenge even before one searches for cross genre hybrids like these. This list will get you started on scratching your RPG/war game itch on your Mac.
- This cross-platform open source title requires you to choose a fantasy kingdom and destroy all the other kingdoms on the map. As the battle progresses, units gain experience and level up, sometimes even transforming into more advanced classes. Also included are a number of campaigns which allow your monarch and troops to carry over into new battles, keeping any equipment and experience they gained earlier in the campaign. New maps, races, levels and even campaigns are available for download using the in-game client, as well as an editor for making your own custom levels and campaigns. This game uses a turn-based mechanic.
- This latest edition in the best-selling fantasy series of real time strategy games from Blizzard Entertainment adds some role-playing elements to the game. Besides the ordinary troops, players can now add heroes to their armies, powerful units that gain experience, and level up to become more powerful. These units are also able to equip special items they find in the course of their battles and learn new spells.
- In Freedom Force, you play Minute Man, the leader of a team of super heroes inspired in style and tone by the "Silver Age of Comics." Besides leading your team of heroes into battles against super villains like Lord Dominion and Nuclear Winter, you are given a wealth of customization options to level up and even create new heroes and their super powers as you like.
- In this complex game from Paradox Interactive, makers of Europa Universalis, and published for the Mac by Virtual Programming, you take on the role of a feudal lord or monarch starting in the year 1066. From there, besides the ordinary fare or troops movements and economic building, you must manage the personal side of your dynasty. Heirs must be educated, political marriages arranged, vassals appointed and promoted. But the unexpected is always around the corner: heirs and vassals die, go mad, or even become jealous of one another. Even more challenging than winning the latest war in the game can be successfully navigating the political intricacies of your own family and court.