Three tales forged in bloodshed, laced with magic, and united by revenge. Enter the breathtakingly beautiful world of Arco, a unique tactical action game where your decisions shape the story. Journey through lush forests, sweeping plains, and scorching deserts as you guide four unlikely heroes in their vendetta against the Red Company gang. Battle warriors of different nations, fend off greedy colonizers, and slay monstrous creatures as you voyage across this enchanted land. Change your fate, one move at a time.
About the story
Enter the breathtakingly beautiful world of Arco, a unique tactical action game where your decisions shape the story. Journey through lush forests, sweeping plains, and scorching deserts as you guide four unlikely heroes in their vendetta against the Red Company gang. Battle warriors of different nations, fend off greedy colonizers, and slay monstrous creatures as you voyage across this enchanted land. Change your fate, one move at a time.
Platforms
Linux Mac Switch PCGenres
Adventure Indie Role-playing (RPG) Strategy Tactical Turn-based strategy (TBS)Themes
Action Fantasy
Languages: English and 5 more
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Critic Reviews
RPG Fan
By Tim RattrayIf you’re a fan of SRPGs and Arco flew under your radar, you owe it to yourself to correct that. It’s one of the better games I’ve played in that category in recent years, with a combat system that successfully tries something new, a setting that hasn’t been explored in any RPG I’m aware of, and a journey that leaves an impact in no small part thanks to the developers’ handling of its subject matter.
SteamDeckHQ
By Michael Baker2024 has seen many fantastic indie titles, and Arco is among them. If you like tactical games with deep world-building, or if you want a challenge, it will sate those taste buds. I like both, and although Arco pushed me to hell and back on the difficulty front, it deserves its Overwhelmingly Positive score on Steam with every juicy mouthful of berries, and it is a great Steam Deck performer.
IGN Italy
By Diego CinelliArco tells a compelling story with minimal dialogue. Leveraging a few well-chosen mechanics, the game immerses players in a world where every interaction and item matters, and each battle decision carries weight. The turn-based tactical combat is challenging yet fair, encouraging strategic thinking without causing frustration. It's a gem worth experiencing.
TheSixthAxis
By Miguel MoranArco is an artistic achievement, blending the struggles of gameplay and narrative into each other seamlessly as it draws you into the depressing but important stories of Mesoamerican natives struggling to carve out a space for themselves, in a world that grows more and more hostile by the day.
The Games Machine
By Emanuele FeronatoArco is the type of video game that fits the definition "hidden gem" perfectly. The story is interesting and expertly told, with numerous references to Native Mesoamerican culture. The tiny graphics are full of points of interest to discover along a rather large map that presents threats in every corner. The fights, the true fulcrum of the game, are managed with a hybrid turn-based mode that forces you to reason to overturn the situation initially always against us, and the presence of the ghosts of the past - real enemies to kill - require speed in making decisions. Those who love turn-based RPGs will have a lot of fun.
