Recruitable Characters

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Many games allow you to add characters to your playable group upon fulfilling certain conditions. This is a central mechanic of many RPG franchises, including Fire Emblem and Suikoden. These can be NPCs or even enemy characters that the player persuades to join their cause, through sidequests or dialogue options.

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Many games allow you to add characters to your playable group upon fulfilling certain conditions. This is a central mechanic of many RPG franchises, including Fire Emblem and Suikoden. These can be NPCs or even enemy characters that the player persuades to join their cause, through sidequests or dialogue options.

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• .hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Rebirth (Game)
• .hack//G.U. Vol. 2: Reminisce (Game)
• .hack//G.U. Vol. 3: Redemption (Game)
• .hack//INFECTION - Part 1 (Game)
• .hack//MUTATION - Part 2 (Game)
• .hack//OUTBREAK - Part 3 (Game)
• .hack//QUARANTINE - Part 4 (Game)
• Albion (Game)
• Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura (Game)
• Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Game)
• Aztec Adventure: The Golden Road to Paradise (Game)
• Baldur's Gate (Game)
• Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (Game)
• Beyond the Beyond (Game)
• Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War (Game)
• Bokosuka Wars (Game)
• Breath of Fire II (Game)
• Citizens of Earth (Game)
• Colony Ship (Game)
• Conquest of Elysium 3 (Game)
• Copper Dreams (Game)
• Cosmic Soldier (Game)
• Cosmic Soldier 2: Psychic War (Game)
• Dead State (Game)
• Death Road to Canada (Game)
• Deltarune Chapter 1&2 (Game)
• Deltarune Chapter 3&4 (Game)
• Demons Age (Game)
• Digimon World (Game)
• Digimon World: Next Order (Game)
• Digital Devil Monogatari: Megami Tensei (Game)
• Dillon's Rolling Western: The Last Ranger (Game)
• Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (Game)
• Distant Worlds (Game)
• Divinity: Original Sin (Game)
• Doom 3 (Game)
• Dragon Age II (Game)
• Dragon Age: Origins (Game)
• Dragon Force (Game)
• Drakensang: The Dark Eye (Game)
• Dungeon Rats (Game)
• ELEX (Game)
• ELEX II (Game)
• Expeditions: Conquistador (Game)
• Expeditions: Viking (Game)
• Fallout (Game)
• Fallout 2 (Game)
• Fallout 3 (Game)
• Fallout 4 (Game)
• Fallout 76 (Game)
• Fallout Shelter (Game)
• Fallout: New Vegas (Game)
• Final Fantasy VI (Game)
• Fire Emblem (Game)
• Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (Game)
• Fire Emblem Fates (Game)
• Fire Emblem: Awakening (Game)
• Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi (Game)
• Fire Emblem: Monshou no Nazo (Game)
• Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (Game)
• Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Game)
• Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu (Game)
• Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (Game)
• Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light (Game)
• Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (Game)
• Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 (Game)
• Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Game)
• Freedom Fighters (Game)
• Gangland (Game)
• Genso Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no Toki (Game)
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Game)
• Graywalkers: Purgatory (Game)
• Ground Zero: Genesis of a New World (Game)
• Growlanser II: The Sense of Justice (Game)
• Growlanser III: The Dual Darkness (Game)
• Growlanser: Wayfarer of Time (Game)
• Half-Life 2 (Game)
• Hard West (Game)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Game)
• Heracles no Eikou 3: Kamigami no Chinmoku (Game)
• How to Win (Game)
• Inazuma Eleven 2: FireStorm/Blizzard (Game)
• Knights in the Nightmare (Game)
• La Pucelle: Tactics (Game)
• Lair of the Leviathan (Game)
• Laplace no Ma (Game)
• Legends of Eisenwald (Game)
• Live A Live (Game)
• Live a Live (Game)
• Mass Effect 2 (Game)
• Meriwether: An American Epic (Game)
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Game)
• Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (Game)
• Minecraft Legends (Game)
• Mount & Blade Warband: Viking Conquest (Game)
• Neverwinter Nights (Game)
• Neverwinter Nights 2 (Game)
• Ongeki (Game)
• Paladin's Quest (Game)
• Pillars of Eternity (Game)

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Recruitable Characters

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Hirable Character,Hirelings,Optional Character,Recruitable NPCs

Games

• .hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Rebirth (Game)
• .hack//G.U. Vol. 2: Reminisce (Game)
• .hack//G.U. Vol. 3: Redemption (Game)
• .hack//INFECTION - Part 1 (Game)
• .hack//MUTATION - Part 2 (Game)
• .hack//OUTBREAK - Part 3 (Game)
• .hack//QUARANTINE - Part 4 (Game)
• Albion (Game)
• Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura (Game)
• Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Game)
• Aztec Adventure: The Golden Road to Paradise (Game)
• Baldur's Gate (Game)
• Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (Game)
• Beyond the Beyond (Game)
• Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War (Game)
• Bokosuka Wars (Game)
• Breath of Fire II (Game)
• Citizens of Earth (Game)
• Colony Ship (Game)
• Conquest of Elysium 3 (Game)
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Franchises

• Has franchises: Grand Theft Auto (Franchise), Megami Tensei (Franchise), Metal Gear (Franchise), Metal Gear Solid (Franchise), SEGA AGES 2500 (Franchise), Mystery Dungeon (Franchise), Pokémon (Franchise), Pokémon Mystery Dungeon (Franchise), Final Fantasy (Franchise), Shin Megami Tensei (Franchise), Compilation of Final Fantasy VII (Franchise), Fallout (Franchise), Fire Emblem (Franchise), Chrono (Franchise), Final Fantasy X (Franchise), Disgaea (Franchise), Suikoden (Franchise), Mass Effect (Franchise), Devil Summoner (Franchise), Digital Devil Monogatari (Franchise), Breath of Fire (Franchise), Viva Piñata (Franchise), Dragon Force (Franchise), Wild Arms (Franchise), .hack (Franchise), Dept. Heaven (Franchise), Wasteland (Franchise), Glory of Heracles (Franchise)

Characters

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