If you like Ninja Saga and want something similar, look at turn-based role-playing games played in the browser or on Facebook: AdventureQuest and Marvel: Avengers Alliance are two well-known examples. This guide goes through them without ranking, giving only genre, studio and year, and adds the other FB Games editions, which are different genres and not ninja games. It also explains what this edition of Ninja Saga offers and what sets it apart.
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Create your ninja, pick your element, take on missions, win turn-based battles and upgrade your gear in this classic Facebook ninja RPG.
In beta: some parts of the original game are not complete yet and you may run into bugs.
Ninja Saga mixes five ingredients: a single character you create and grow, five elements with a first skill each, missions you accept from a room, turn-based battles and gear you buy and equip. Depending on which one you liked most, the similar game changes.
To compare, ask yourself three questions. Is combat turn-based? Do you improve one character or manage a base? Is there a shop with gear? For games from other studios we give only genre, studio and year, and we do not say whether they work today, so always check their official page.
AdventureQuest, by Artix Entertainment, dates from 2002: a role-playing game for the browser with turn-based combat, for a single player, with the data saved on a server.
Marvel: Avengers Alliance, by Offbeat Creations and published by Playdom, came out on Facebook in 2012 and is a turn-based role-playing game; it reached mobile in 2013.
Both share the role-playing and the turn-based combat with Ninja Saga; the setting and the rules differ in each.
FB Games has more browser editions, all in beta except Social Empires, which is already live. None is about ninjas or a role-playing game like Ninja Saga, but they may suit you if another ingredient is what you enjoy.
Wild Ones Rebirth, by Playdom, has you pick a pet and fire turn by turn on destructible maps. The Last Stand: Dead Zone, by Con Artist Games, is about building your shelter, recruiting survivors and looting an invaded city, in English and Spanish.
That is a different genre: instead of one character, you manage a base and an army. Social Empires, by Social Point, is about building your village, training troops and defending it from trolls, with PvP. Social Wars, also by Social Point, is war strategy: base, troops and tanks, and attacks on rivals.
Empires & Allies, by Zynga, is empire strategy with a base, resources, troops and vehicles. Backyard Monsters, by Kixeye, has you build your yard with buildings and towers, raise monsters and send them against the tribes on the map.
If you want turn-based combat and a character who improves, go for role-playing: Ninja Saga, AdventureQuest or Marvel: Avengers Alliance. If turn-based shooting appeals, look at Wild Ones Rebirth. If you would rather build a base, train troops and attack rivals, there is the strategy of Social Empires, Social Wars, Empires & Allies or Backyard Monsters. And if survival is your thing, The Last Stand: Dead Zone.
If character progress matters most, Ninja Saga has skills by element in the Academy and a shop with weapons, clothing, accessories and consumables, and the weapon you equip changes your basic attack damage.
It is free, opens in the browser with no Flash, is in English only and requires an account of your own. You do not need Facebook, and progress from the Facebook game is not imported.
It has a level cap of 20 and one character per account, and it is a beta: the basics work, but player-versus-player battles, clans, pets and events, among other features, are not available yet or have not been tested thoroughly.
Three steps and you're in.
From this home page. Each game opens at its own address, with its own start screen.
A quick sign-up inside the game. Your progress is saved on the server, not in your browser.
You play in your browser, with no Flash and no downloads, on a computer and, depending on the game, on your phone too.
Turn-based role-playing games played in the browser or on Facebook, such as AdventureQuest (Artix Entertainment, 2002) and Marvel: Avengers Alliance (Offbeat Creations and Playdom, 2012). Each has its own rules; check their official pages to see whether you can play them today.
At ninjasaga.fbgamesweb.com, in the browser, with no Flash and nothing to install, using a free FB Games account. It is an independent edition of Ninja Saga, it is in beta and the game is in English.
None is about ninjas or a role-playing game just like it. Wild Ones Rebirth is turn-based pet shooting and The Last Stand: Dead Zone is shelter and survival. Social Empires, Social Wars, Empires & Allies and Backyard Monsters are troop strategy.
They share role-playing and turn-based combat. AdventureQuest, by Artix Entertainment, dates from 2002; it is a browser role-playing game for a single player, with data saved on a server. We do not say whether it is still available: check its official page.
It is also a turn-based role-playing game that came out on Facebook in 2012, made by Offbeat Creations and published by Playdom, and it reached mobile in 2013. It shares turn-based combat with Ninja Saga; the world and rules differ. We do not say whether it can be played today.
Social Empires and Social Wars, by Social Point; Empires & Allies, by Zynga; and Backyard Monsters, by Kixeye. They are about building a base, training troops and attacking rivals, unlike Ninja Saga's single character. All are in beta except Social Empires.
By what you want: turn-based role-playing with a character who improves, like Ninja Saga; turn-based shooting, like Wild Ones Rebirth; base and troop strategy, like Social Empires; or survival, like The Last Stand: Dead Zone. Try the one closest to what you enjoyed.
It is free, opens in the browser with no Flash, is in English only, requires an account of your own and does not import progress from the Facebook game. It has a level cap of 20, one character per account and, as a beta, features that are not available yet.
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