Zed Duke of Banville
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Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children and The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk are better games than any proper CRPG released in 2020.
Troubleshooter is a turn-based party-based tactics game that combines well-designed combat mechanics with an intricate character customization system, although the characters themselves are pre-defined. There is no exploration, with each mission taking place on a battlefield that constitutes a separate zone, but it adds extensive character customization/progression RPG elements to equipment and inventory. Dungeon of Naheulbeuk is similar, in being a turn-based party-based tactics game with well-designed combat mechanics and a skill/perk tree for each character (also pre-defined). Unlike Troubleshooter, it presents a pretense of exploration, with the dungeon existing as a large environment in which the player actually moves the party in real-time in between fights, but there is little to do outside combat and no real logistics or puzzles. Both games are fundamentally tactics games with the addition of character progression/customization, and therefore fall into the hybrid genre often referred to (erroneously) as SRPGs.