Please, for the love of all you hold holy, if you've read this far into the thread buy this game.... It's probably the best game I've found for the money, and I bought it at full price... This is a wonderful opportunity so please don't miss it
Have the developers planned to port the game to the iPhone? Price is not really an issue, I'm ready to buy it whenever it hits the smaller iOS screens.
I dont see why you'd compare a turn-based RPG to a tactics SRPG. In XCOM, you dont control a character and roam around different parts of the map. It's just area after area of missions, with the "base" in between. In Shadowrun, you travel around the city, talk to NPCs, trigger main and sub quest, complete quests, kill bad guys. Travelling is in realtime, and when combat starts it becomes turn-based.
No regrets buying it at full price! I can't wait for Dragonfall. If you're looking for anything similar don't forget all of the ios ports from http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com - They're fantasy setting games with excellent writing and similar gameplay to the original fallout games.
I'm going by combat, not overworld navigation, which with the exception of the way they attack in XCOM, plays very similar to each other. Just played the first mission in Shadowrun Returns, and this is definitely a really great game. At $3, it actually highway robbery. This is definitely a game that people should buy for their new iPad Air 2's and iPad Mini 3's (or new iPad Mini 2's for the sensible people).
^Which is why they arent really the same in genre. The only similarity is the turn-based combat, but that doesnt make Arc the Lad titles similar to FFTactics.
To be fair, I don't play too many strategy games (I prefer action RPGs and regular turn-based RPG), so I am no authority in what makes a proper strategy game and what are the proper subgenre of SRPGs. I give them a try, every once in a while, and it looks like this is one I definitely give a chance.
