Emberfall Saga

Emberfall Saga is the kind of RPG that eats your evenings. You build a party of four, work through a branching story, and fight turn-based battles where positioning actually matters. The writing is better than it has any right to be on a phone, with side characters who stick around long enough to grow on you. Combat starts gentle and then gets genuinely tricky around the mid-game, when enemies start punishing lazy turns. We appreciated that the difficulty curve respected us instead of forcing endless grinding. Touch controls for selecting targets and skills are clean and never got in the way during fast fights. It does ask for a lot of your time, and the first hour is slow. Push through it and you get one of the more satisfying mobile RPGs we've played this year.

What we liked

• Turn-based combat with real tactical depth
• A story worth following to the end
• Clear, responsive touch controls in battle