Turn-Based Rpg

I keep seeing Fear & Hunger come up in the same breath as Iron Abyss in comments and Discord threads, and the more I play, the more I get it. Different setting, different look entirely, but they’re chasing the same feeling in a way that’s hard to shake once you notice it. View this post on Instagram Descending Is the Whole Point Fear & Hunger doesn’t give you a quest log or a map that makes sense — it gives you a dungeon, a body, and the understanding that going down is the only direction that matters. Iron Abyss does the same thing structurally: you’re not clearing levels so much as descending through a sealed structure one floor at a time, and every floor is one more step you can’t take back. That framing alone does a lot of the horror’s heavy lifting before a single fight even starts. ...

“Sci-fi horror mecha dungeon crawler” doesn’t sound like it has much business being compared to a decades-old JRPG about demon negotiation. But I’ve been playing Iron Abyss, and the Shin Megami Tensei comparison kept popping into my head way more than I expected. It Makes You Actually Sweat, Same as SMT SMT’s combat has never let you coast — Press Turn punishes a bad read hard, and every fight feels like it’s genuinely trying to end you if you’re sloppy. Iron Abyss gets you to that same nervous place a different way: a DEX-based CTB turn order closer to Final Fantasy X, where heavier actions cost you tempo and every single choice reshuffles who goes next. Nothing about it feels safe to zone out through, and that’s exactly the energy I love SMT for. ...