{"id":6780,"date":"2022-09-13T18:17:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/13\/triangle-strategy-comes-to-pc-next-month-as-our-strategy-rpg-cup-overfloweth\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T18:17:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:17:44","slug":"triangle-strategy-comes-to-pc-next-month-as-our-strategy-rpg-cup-overfloweth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/13\/triangle-strategy-comes-to-pc-next-month-as-our-strategy-rpg-cup-overfloweth\/","title":{"rendered":"Triangle Strategy comes to PC next month as our strategy RPG cup overfloweth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-video\">\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Triangle Strategy, Square Enix&#8217;s first brand new stab at the strategy RPG in years, is about to land on PC where it belongs. Square announced on Tuesday that the turn-based tactics game <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1850510\/TRIANGLE_STRATEGY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hits Steam<\/a> on October 13, sandwiching it right in the middle of two other fairly similar games from Square. At the end of this month it&#8217;s launching real time tactics game <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1399080\/The_DioField_Chronicle\/\">The DioField Chronicle<\/a>, and then in November we&#8217;re getting the remastered <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1451090\/Tactics_Ogre_Reborn\/\">Tactics Ogre: Reborn<\/a>. If you&#8217;re a glutton for number-crunching, grid-based Japanese RPGs, you are eating <em>good<\/em> this fall.<\/p>\n<p>As we just wrote about recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/holy-heck-there-are-a-lot-of-strategy-rpgs-on-pc-now\/\">we&#8217;re living in a resurgent golden age of tactics RPGs<\/a> right now. Triangle Strategy is one of the big ones: it uses Square&#8217;s popular &#8220;HD-2D&#8221; pixel art aesthetic and harkens back to that sweeping political flavor of fantasy that Final Fantasy Tactics did so well.<\/p>\n<p>Triangle Strategy was a hit on the Nintendo Switch earlier this year, though not everyone loved that it leans a bit heavier on the talky RPG side of things than it does the tactics side. In its review, our sister site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/triangle-strategy-review\/\">GamesRadar<\/a> wrote, &#8220;While Triangle Strategy soars in its actual strategic battles, it stumbles a little elsewhere. Leading characters are easy to root for in the opening hours, but it\u2019s a shame Square Enix takes so damn long to develop actual personalities outside of politicking for the majority of them.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually more excited for Tactics Ogre&#8217;s comeback, personally, but Triangle Strategy is destined to be an excellent Steam Deck companion. It already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8ay86ZC1p7E\">ran well enough on the Switch<\/a>, but we can hopefully look forward to a better-than-30-fps framerate without any dynamic resolution dips.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully Square turned this one around pretty quickly, with just a seven month gap between the Switch and PC releases. Once it arrives, we expect quite a few patient PC players will continue using their Steam Decks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/everyone-is-using-their-steam-deck-like-a-better-nintendo-switch\/\">like a better Nintendo Switch<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">(Image credit: Square Enix)<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Triangle Strategy comes to PC next month as our strategy RPG cup overfloweth<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\">\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Triangle Strategy, Square Enix&#8217;s first brand new stab at the strategy RPG in years, is about to land on PC where it belongs. Square announced on Tuesday that the turn-based tactics game <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1850510\/TRIANGLE_STRATEGY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hits Steam<\/a> on October 13, sandwiching it right in the middle of two other fairly similar games from Square. At the end of this month it&#8217;s launching real time tactics game <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1399080\/The_DioField_Chronicle\/\">The DioField Chronicle<\/a>, and then in November we&#8217;re getting the remastered <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1451090\/Tactics_Ogre_Reborn\/\">Tactics Ogre: Reborn<\/a>. If you&#8217;re a glutton for number-crunching, grid-based Japanese RPGs, you are eating <em>good<\/em> this fall.<\/p>\n<p>As we just wrote about recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/holy-heck-there-are-a-lot-of-strategy-rpgs-on-pc-now\/\">we&#8217;re living in a resurgent golden age of tactics RPGs<\/a> right now. Triangle Strategy is one of the big ones: it uses Square&#8217;s popular &#8220;HD-2D&#8221; pixel art aesthetic and harkens back to that sweeping political flavor of fantasy that Final Fantasy Tactics did so well.<\/p>\n<p>Triangle Strategy was a hit on the Nintendo Switch earlier this year, though not everyone loved that it leans a bit heavier on the talky RPG side of things than it does the tactics side. In its review, our sister site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/triangle-strategy-review\/\">GamesRadar<\/a> wrote, &#8220;While Triangle Strategy soars in its actual strategic battles, it stumbles a little elsewhere. Leading characters are easy to root for in the opening hours, but it\u2019s a shame Square Enix takes so damn long to develop actual personalities outside of politicking for the majority of them.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually more excited for Tactics Ogre&#8217;s comeback, personally, but Triangle Strategy is destined to be an excellent Steam Deck companion. It already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8ay86ZC1p7E\">ran well enough on the Switch<\/a>, but we can hopefully look forward to a better-than-30-fps framerate without any dynamic resolution dips.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully Square turned this one around pretty quickly, with just a seven month gap between the Switch and PC releases. Once it arrives, we expect quite a few patient PC players will continue using their Steam Decks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/everyone-is-using-their-steam-deck-like-a-better-nintendo-switch\/\">like a better Nintendo Switch<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">(Image credit: Square Enix)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}