Gaming @kbin.social Crul @kbin.social 1y ago

Looking for games with single character and real-time+tile-based movement.

There are games with resal time and tile-based movement (Age of Empires 1, Warcraft 1), but all those I remember are not single character (à la roguelike).

Do you know any game in which you control a single character that has real-time and tile-based movement?

EDIT: I found one example: Real Time Chess https://www.kfchess.com/

Thanks!

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There's Legend of Grimrock. It's real time, tile based first person dungeon crawler. You have a party of four though, crammed into one tile.
- Indeed, it fits the definition.
  
  Thanks!
  
  Both it and its sequel are good games
- And many genes from the 80s and 90s that it's modeled after. Main one that comes to mind is Stonekeep
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead has an optional semi-realtime mode where enemies take a turn every few seconds if you do nothing, but I believe taking your own turns advances the turn count as usual, so it is really just a sort of (very short) turn timer.
- Good one, I forgot about that mode in CDDA!
Q*Bert
- Hehe, true. And technically some / most of the old game & watch handheld games.
Never tried DnD - but is it tile-based? If so, Baldur’s Gate and related games might count.
- As with Shadow Tactics, it may be tile based, but in that case it tries to disguish itself as a more granular-movement system. The tiles are not visible.
  
  Thanks for the suggestion!
Have you heard of Tangledeep? Might be up your alley. The enemies move when you move.
- Another one with the mechanic mentioned here. I saw a talk about a game with that main mechanic, which is what inspired this post, but I cannot remember which game was :/.
  
  Thanks for the suggestion.
So something like Disgaea, maybe?
- They mentioned real-time movement. Disgaea is turn based last I checked. Though I can't imagine a game that uses real-time movement and that is also gird based as they kinda go against each other design wise.
  
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/629690/Vaporum/
  
  Maybe they mean ‘isometric’?
  
  OP, maybe check the Shadow Tactics games? They might be what you’re looking for. You control up to 3 characters on a mission but you can only ever control one of them at a time, technically.
  
  Wait, I might just be thinking of the Ultimate Unlosing Ranger. Tho I suppose it's turn-based in the sense that your actions all come from a pool, but iirc it's more similar to Crypt of the Necrodancer or the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games.
  
  I can't imagine a game that uses real-time movement and that is also gird based as they kinda go against each other design wise.
  
  I agree that they seem contradictory, but they are not technically exclusive. See Real Time Chess: https://www.kfchess.com/
Crypt of the Necrodancer and its spinoffs are great single character games if you don't mind rhythm games

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