Alvora Tactics

A short dungeon crawler with a bit of procedural generation.

Doesn't have the exploration or story or Voidspire Tactics, but it's also cheaper, so I think the price is right if you just want more of the same gameplay with some nice quality of life improvements.

can't talk about alvora without talking about voidspire. of the two, it's the less grand adventure - the scope is more restrained as this game is a much smaller dungeon crawl over an actual adventure. it compensates with a bit more mechanical depth - more races, more classes, more equipment possibilities.
i think it's a decent trade-off but it fills a completely different niche than its predecessor. had to adjust how i play because the game also presents different combat challenges. overall though? a pretty decent time. had some fun with it! would recommend at least a look at it.

Surprisingly enjoyable tactical game, a lot of classes, skills, items, synergies and accessible, but deep combat

Another certified hood classic from Rad Codex. Like voidspire, played this years ago, came back this month after horizon's gate to revisit the series.
It feels like Alvora gets slept on compared to other games in the setting/series, but it does plenty well enough to be worth a playthrough. This is basically an expansion on Voidspire's tactical combat and job systems set in a semi-procedural dungeon where the map shuffles to some degree each time you enter. It's a bit lighter in story than Voidspire (which itself was already kinda light), but like with voidspire, what little is there is perfectly fine in terms of handwaving a reason for the gameplay to happen. The decent amounts of lore are largely carried over, though it feels like there are less elements to inspect and get snippets on compared to both voidspire and horizon's gate.
One interesting bit is the difficulty ramp: whereas Voidspire maintained a decent incline throughout, here I notice that the first few hours of a new game here are easily the hardest, with everything becoming significantly more manageable once you start unlocking classes and looting/buying good gear. At the start of my latest playthrough every battle against anything stronger than pillbugs felt like a struggle (admittedly leading to some damn cool moments when my captain was the last man standing and singlehandedly carried the team's survival with dual guns and rogue skills), but after getting the party cap up, finding the masks for more advanced classes, and getting everyone even basic gear so they weren't naked, well... the momentum from there kinda broke the rest of the game on veteran difficulty. Midgame onwards some encounters still forced me to think a bit more carefully about my approach, but most of them my crew just walked right up, shot first, and then proceeded to dismantle whatever poor sods were in front of us. Even late game in the final few battles I went through with no KOs.
I don't say this to brag, only to note that it is probably the easiest and most forgiving game between Voidspire, itself, and Horizon's gate. Voidspire and Horizon gate both force you to work a lot harder for a lot more finite amounts of xp and thus to unlock classes. Meanwhile Alvora allows for basically unlimited grinding and practice runs for builds right out the gate, not to mention permanently unlocking classes for all units just from exploration (and surviving an occasional boss fight).
Overall, good game, if a bit shorter feeling depending on how quickly you grasp the system and get your momentum going. 8.5 giant world eating serpents whose children have already spread to Eral and thus all the realms are potentially already doomed despite our best efforts out of 10

wonderful game, well-crafted tactical gameplay and superb game progression. i love the improvements made to it from voidspire tactics and i'm looking forward to playing horizon's gate when i get the chance!

If you've already played Voidspire Tactics and Horizon's Gate and just want more of that combat system in a different little package, this is a no-brainer.

This game rules.

I played Voidspire Tactics and had trouble with it. Didn't end up finishing because the game frustrated me with its seeming inability to realize its own mechanics.

Alvora does not have this weakness. Alvora Tactics uses procgen in a very simple and elegant way to serve up varied encounters that can actually challenge your builds and provide novel battle scenarios. I wouldn't call it endlessly replayable, but it's definitely getting a 2nd run out of me.

Sick game, in my opinion a great improvement over the 1st while building on it in just about every way.