Quartet

Platform	Windows
Genre	Role Playing Game
Release Year	2025
Rating	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Added	2025-Oct-12

Quartet harkens itself to Live A Live or Octopath Traveller while being neither. It's a story with a game built around it rather than an RPG with a story, and that story dances with some heavy, emotional stuff.

Quartet takes you through a fantasy retelling of the holocaust: genocide, antisemitism, ethnostate nationalism and all. It's well told, it criticizes what it needs to critisize; it respects what it needs to respect. It stomps Nazis. It takes breaks for gaiden stories and levity frequently.

You start able to see the four protagonists's stories in any order. It takes about two thirds of the game before you're unified into the titular quartet. Until that final third, you're on rails from dungeon to dungeon with no real world to explore.

Quartet's spotlight mechanic: in-combat party member shuffling, takes just as long to show up. Once it does you have a well-designed team where everyone is important, and the ability to bring their powers to bear or move them to safety at will. It's quite like Breath of Fire IV.

The graphics and music are top notch, the writing is good, the encounters feel well-placed and well-designed. Everything is stacked with QoL and polish. If you want an open world, this ain't it. If you want a hard hitting, well-told story with some short dungeons and boss fights of decent variety, this is one of the best RPGs of 2025 for that.