It's been several weeks now since Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave was released for Nintendo Switch 2, and fans around the world are still exploring this massive game. While you could easily sink hundreds of hours into playing through every Flame Lord's story, you may be wondering what to play after your adventures in Dagda are through. Worry not: we've compiled a list of our games like Fortune's Weave to keep your strategic skills sharp while you wait for Intelligent Systems to reveal their DLC plans.
If you enjoy negotiating tricky terrain and periodically swapping your character classes in Fortune's Weave, the 2025 remake of Final Fantasy Tactics will be right up your alley. While it's not quite as difficult as the 1998 PlayStation original, FF Tactics demands that you engage deeply with its job system and figure out which team compositions are necessary for a specific battle. You are very much expected to grind via "optional" skirmishes, even on normal difficulty, and that challenge leads to a satisfying sense of mastery.
A surprisingly grim yet moving story about the exploitation of common people by the nobility makes this one worth revisiting again and again. 2023's Engage didn't manage to inspire a thousand ships like Three Houses, mostly because the story is pretty flat and forgettable. But it's still well worth playing, because the combat and maps are extremely fun. The central gimmick, Emblem Rings, allow you to equip anyone in your squad with the skills of a past Fire Emblem hero, allowing for some truly bonkers synergies and limitless possibilities for customization.
Build a strong enough bond between a character and an Emblem, and they'll be able to inherit some of that Emblem's skills permanently. Engage has plenty of social-sim elements and overworld exploration, but for some reason I feel far less remorse about ignoring them here than I do in Fortune's Weave. Are you the type of Fire Emblem player for whom permadeath is the only option?
Then you'll vibe with the tough battles in this 2019 strategy game from indie developer Chucklefish. Wargroove features 12+ unique Commanders, each with a special ultimate ability called a "Groove" that charges during combat, like healing powers or building walls. My favorite commander is Caesar, a golden retriever in stately silver armor that's festooned with a plume of red feathers.
In one mission, he and his troops enter an abandoned stronghold, only to find that it’s been overrun by rogues. These ruffians soon learn a harsh lesson: underestimate the dog general at your own peril. He's a beautiful boy and I will murder anyone who lays a finger on him.
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