Alvora Tactics

Play Time: 41 hours
Achievements: 15 of 15. 100%
Date/Version: September 9th 2026
Rating: 7 out of 10
“Alvora Tactics is an indie Tactics RPG that combines strategic combat with immersive exploration. Explore and conquer Great Serpent Alvora with your own customizable band of warriors!”
I'm not sure how to review this so let's get it started.
I spent roughly 9 hours if not more trying to get 1 achievement.
I enjoyed myself it's been a while since I played any tactics game of this sort.
The music was good, the story wasn't amazing but it was a story. Apparently it's set in a world that the designers created in the past. I could be wrong about that but in any case this game was interesting. Little puzzles, here and there, you can interact with the environment and manipulate the battlefield. Some classes help you with the puzzles, getting additional items, etc. Money in the beginning was super super tight. But within time you kind of find some goods, and looping is helpful. Each boss had it's on play style which was fun, and (spoilers) the game may have more at the end.
Overall this was an enjoyable game.
For the price and if it's on sale it was completely worth it.
“Combine 10 races, 23 classes, 150+ upgrade-able abilities, and 50+ passives to create your ideal party
Unique fantasy setting; no elves, orcs, or dwarves”

Random small indie dev no one's ever heard of punches way above their weight unexpectedly makes a great game. This has the kind of intuitiveness that something like Fire Emblem has and which few tactical rpgs manage to do so well, while also having decent depth and variety of character building options. If there's one minor criticism it's that the room layouts and setups become very similar and recognizable after just a few runs, sort of undermining the proc gen aspect to the game. Not a big deal since the small variations allow for enough to make the occasional grind less repetitive. Also why is the music so good?

If you're like me and every other TRPG cannot stand up to Final Fantasy Tactic's combat and class systems, Rad Codex's tactics games are for you. They all have a hybrid class system just like FFT, with some changes that I like and there aren't any useless meta classes like the mediator or thief (instead you just get loot off of enemies when combat is over). Each game has a different type of campaign, but they all share the same class and combat. Also, you gain XP at end of combat instead of per action so you are not incentivized to drag out fights to maximize XP gain.
Particular to Alvora, there is almost no story and endless combat. If you ever wanted to grind in FFT in fights that were fun and not meaningless like the random battles in FFT, but don't care if it has a great story, this is a fun game for you. You go on dungeon runs and fight enemies and solve a handful of puzzles, then you can exit when it gets too hard. Its not a roguelike/lite. If you wipe then its game over and you go to a load screen. also if your characters faint then their max HP is lowered which incentivizes you to have more than the maximum team amount, and also you can permanently unlock a class for all present and future team members which makes it easier for new hires to catch up. I had a ton of fun grinding the ♥♥♥♥ out of this game and I recommend it to any TRP fans who are looking for something heavy in combat and light in story.

More combat-focused than Voidspire Tactics, also very good.

Great tactical srpg with much customization. Works well enough on Steamdeck.

Little too short, but still fun.

Short, but deep. Good game.