
If Fire Emblem Heroes’ tightly constrained battle and map sizes have you down, Battle for Wesnoth is likely the pick-me-up you need. Its huge maps feel alive thanks to little touches like towns and farmland and wide varieties of terrain in single battles, and are so gigantic that units can actually be sent to a distant point and will automatically travel to that path over subsequent turns to save players the trouble of moving them repeatedly. One of the most enduring and content-packed SRPG options on mobile, Battle for Wesnoth deserves a mention if only for its massive set of campaigns and maps available through its open source add-on program, as well as its cross-platform multiplayer.

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Kingturn’s story of civil war over the next succession to the throne and optional permadeath should make Fire Emblem fans feel right at home, and its three separate entries in the series ensure you’ll have always have plenty of wars to wage. Battles are not always even-you may need to think your way out of an 8 vs 16 matchup-but the wide variety of classes, ranging from mages to wolf riders, allows for a solution to almost any challenge. Kingturn’s simple graphics belie its strategic complexity: battles take place on fairly large, scrollable fields with up to ten or more units at your disposal, each with their own unique strengths and skills. Whether you just discovered the genre through Fire Emblem Heroes and are looking to see what else it out there or have been an SRPG fan for years and already played most of the titles on this list, hopefully we’ve found at least one new game that you can turn to when you need a short (or long) vacation from saving the Kingdom of Askr. While SRPGs have not quite flourished on mobile like some other genres, there are still some really satisfying, time-slugging options available for download.

And since you can never have too much of a good thing, we decided to fill our time waiting for the Fire Emblem Heroes launch mining the mobile markets for strategy RPG gold. With the much-anticipated release of Fire Emblem Heroes on iOS and Android now here, we’ve had strategy games on the brain.
