Realm of Ashwood

Realm of Ashwood puts a proper RPG in your pocket. You gather a party, learn skills and fight through a story that actually bothers to have characters worth caring about. The turn-based combat is quick enough for the phone but still asks you to think about positioning and cooldowns.

Building your team is the heart of it. Every hero has a role, and figuring out who covers whose weakness kept us experimenting for hours. The writing is a cut above what we expected from a mobile release.

Our only gripe is the early grind before your party fills out, but push past that and it opens up nicely.

What we liked

• Genuinely written story
• Flexible party building
• Snappy turn-based fights