Time Break Chronicles

Time Break Chronicles is really good.
Here is what you need to know:
1. This game is exactly for the guy who loves old RPG combat systems and creating/flexing characters. You know that person who spends like 12 hours making a DND character? This game is for you.
2. Do not expect a story in this game. It's basically, "Bad guys are bad, so you kill them". This isn't an RPG story. This is a rogue-lite at heart.
3. First half of the game so far? Too easy. Second half? Too hard.
It's worth picking up for the price and I can't recommend it enough if it sounds appealing to you.

Time Break Chronicles is, as far as I know, one of the only rogueli(k/t)es out there that uses Final Fantasy-style turn-based JRPG combat. I enjoy it quite a lot. I have my quibbles here and there with the gameplay design, but there's just nothing else quite like it on the market right now. If you're a fan of Final Fantasies 1-6 and rogueli(k/t)es, give it a try.

This game is actually crazy good. It puts the combat front and center and outside of that there's not a ton to do, but the game doesn't need it. A TON of characters that all play very differently, combined with team synergy among those characters plus relics that you can equip to them, and you've got a game that's a tactical feast.

If you're into combat focused games with deep strategy/mechanics then this game will scratch that itch.

TLDR: Amazing Roguelite JRPG. If you like the classic Final Fantasy gameplay (Like V or VI), want a Roguelite twist on it (Satisfying meta progression, various builds), with a massive roster and straight-to-the-action mission loop where every fight feels like a mini-boss that lets your build show how they work (instead of just spamming Attack or one button like random encounters in FF), grab this game.
I pretty much only play the Chronicles mode, the main mode the game is built around (The Roguelite mode with progression), so I won't be talking about the Singularity mode (the true Roguelike mode).
Quick rundown of the game is that you're playing as Claire, a physicist who made a portal and then got involved with cultists kidnapping people from across time (ancient times, medieval times, modern, future). You go into a mission, make a party of 6* from the heroes you've unlocked, you can change their Relics (equipment), upgrade their Skills, and you just go through the Slay the Spire-like map that has nodes of encounters.
The Main Character, Claire must always be in your party at all times. This might put people off at first, since it means you're making a party of 5 heroes + Claire. To balance it out, Claire is a multi-classing beast (you unlock more classes as you clear the Acts) that gets more Skills on each of her forms as you also Recruit more Heroes. Every form she has usually has 2-3 swappable skills on top of skills that she might get from Relics, making her very versatile and you can then fit her in pretty much every team. I keep finding new ways to play Claire and she's a very solid party member who can't even truly die as long as there are other allies still alive.
On to the heroes, the roster is huge (The goal is to reach 100 heroes by full release), at the time of this review as of Act 5 there's 94 heroes and they are split between Wanderers (Recruited in Special Missions), and each Act (Act 1 heroes, 2, so on). Each and every one of them is unique and every hero can equip up to 4 relics to either augment or change their playstyle. As for Hero balance, at the time of this review I believe the game's balanced enough that every hero can shine and you'll have fun with all of them, it's just that some may be a lot easier to pop off compared to others who need more setup.
The Chronicles mode does have big meta progression where you have your Town upgrades that need Particles (basically money), Hero upgrades (upgrading their Skills by spending Skill Points from leveling up/completing quests/using Encyclopedia), and Relics (Random drop in missions, clearing Hero quests, Craft using Soul Shards by dismantling other relics). At first the grind may seem daunting but with how fun the gameplay loop is and how generous the drops you get, it really didn't take that long for me to unlock all the key upgrades and max out all the heroes.
Once you setup your party (Claire + 5 heroes and up to 4 backup heroes), you just jump into each Act (repeatable and each has a Challenge Level/Ascension that increases the difficulty and length of the Act as you go higher) and clear the Act by beating the final boss. And every run there are Distortion effects that can either help you or debuff you. Each Act has their own unique enemies and you might want to bring specific heroes to answer the unique challenges that each Act has (But don't worry about auto-losing due to not bringing specific heroes either, it's not that bad).
Overall I really love this game and JRPG enjoyers should give it a try.

Fantastic game. Imagine FF6's battle system with more characters and customisation but without the generic spells and with slayer the spire type nodes instead of dungeons.
If that sounds good to you buy it. A lot of content, especially for the price point but don't expect much of a story

Simple to play, but hard to master. Well worth the play if you're into rpgs and like having a cast of characters to mix and match to see what works and what does not.

This game is excellent for gamers with very specific tastes.

If you enjoy turn based RPG fights but can't be bothered with random battles or going through hours of intro to get to the good part of a game you've played for decades, this is for you.
There's an addictive element to rescuing characters, their abilities are a lot of fun to work out and strategize with as well, depending on your other party members.
Level ups involve choosing an individual skill, usually enhancing it by adding additional properties instead of just making the damage go up for every skill, which adds to different ways you can power level characters. There is also equipment that can grant character specific abilities to anyone, meaning some great broken builds are possible.

The main game is kind of interesting but tries a bit too hard with the story and "zany" humour, personally I played it for about half an hour and the rest of my playtime has been in the roguelike mode. If you like it then that's cool, everyone's got different tastes, I'm just saying that you don't have to interact with the story if you don't want to and it's just as fun.