My turn-based itch demands to be scratched.

[Atmos Duality]

Shadowrun returns and invisible inc. are the games I currently have my eye on for exactly the same reason. Mind you, I haven't played either myself yet. So by all means watch some reviews and/or trailers and judge for yourself if they have what you're hoping for.

Shadowrun, at least the most recent one, is an OK game, but is utterly rubbish as a deep tactical experience. The tactical game play is...cursory, at best.

JA2 remains the king of turn-based tactical games.

Shadowrun Returns, Dragonfall: Director's Cut (overly long titles!) actually revamped a good deal of the tactical mechanics of the game. Flanking is a LOT more important now, since it directly influences not only hit% but crit% (certain attacks now induce flanking status; there's also flushing from cover).

I'm playing through it now, after playing the original Dragonfall earlier this year; it's quite an improvement so far.

If they adopted that improved system to a broader series, or provided challenge maps (akin to Advance Wars, maybe), it could actually turn into a very solid tactics series. Sadly, I doubt that will actually happen.
(to anyone reading: no, I don't want anything to do with the Shadowrun MMO. Sorry, I hate MMOs. I hate grind. I refuse to play them now.)

 

[Objectable]

Fire EMblem Awakening is an amazing game and is one of the most beautiful games on the 3ds

 

[Dansen]

What about the Banner Saga? I've never played it personally, but I've seen some gameplay footage, and it appeared to be XCOM-like in it's combat scenarios.

Rich Evans of Redlettermedia didn't like it and he is a massive xcom fanboy, so I would say thats a no go.

 

[cleric of the order]

All of the age of wonder games, man those games are massive.
Any pen and paper
any war game
I head the new 40k games was good but had few orginale ideas.
Stock up on advanced wars if you want.
If i could I through you the older Japanese only FE games
Disagae the series
etc etc.
Conquest of Elysium 3, classic retro style, brilliant.
I think the age of wonders games is what you are looking for the most, however.
nice large theater of war, pretty fun tactical fights, that will admittedly get old when your conflict is a provincial affair and you can hurl spells.
It's as close to the black company as i could find in a video game besides myth, with all those insane spell flingers.

 

[jklinders]

A little old school, but how about Shining Force or one of it's sequels?

Decent story, a huge variety of character and class types and the different maps add a fair bit of challenge in figuring out how to win. There are RPG style progression and gearing elements without bogging you down too much on the eploration.


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