TROUBLESHOOTER Abandoned Children

TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children is the first season of a long-running Korean tactical RPG by Dandylion, set in the free trade nation of Valhalla — established by three world powers after a global war and prohibited from maintaining an army by the same powers. Crime fills the vacuum the absent military leaves behind, and ten years into the experiment the government grants ordinary civilians the legal right to investigate and arrest criminals. The people who take up that work are called Troubleshooters.

You play Albus, a 20-year-old who becomes an official Troubleshooter and slowly assembles a small company of colleagues across the campaign. Each new recruit brings their own motivations, history and unlockable side content — a hunter character lets you tame beasts; an engineer lets you craft drones; specialised classes branch the available toolkit into directions a single protagonist couldn't possibly cover. More than 100 unique missions and over 500 cut scenes flesh out the story, with each mission designed independently rather than reusing template scenarios.

The mastery system is the game's deepest mechanical layer. Over 1,000 masteries and more than 500 additional masteries form the build space, with each character acquiring masteries through level-up and — distinctively — by taking them from defeated enemies. Combinations of masteries unlock additional effects, so the build planning extends beyond just picking individual skills into deliberately constructed synergies. Each character has a unique class with rank-up paths to upper classes that change their battlefield role, giving you the kind of role customisation the SRPG genre traditionally only offers at recruitment.