Fate: Grand Order

Fate/Grand Order (Japanese: フェイト・グランドオーダー, Hepburn: Feito/Gurando Ōdā) is a free-to-play Japanese mobile game, developed by Lasengle (formerly Delightworks) using Unity, and published by Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. The game is a part of Type-Moon's Nasuverse (albeit heavily based based on Fate/stay night), and was released in Japan on 29 July 2015 for Android, and on 12 August 2015, for iOS. English-language versions followed on 25 June 2017 in the United States and Canada (which would later be open to the rest of the world), and a Korean version was released on 21 November 2017. An arcade version titled Fate/Grand Order Arcade was released by Sega on 26 July 2018, but solely in Japan. It has also had many Animated Adaptations, manga adaptations, and even three stage plays.

The game itself is centered around turn-based combat where the player, who takes on the role of a "Master", summons and commands powerful familiars known as "Servants" to battle enemies. The story narrative is presented in a visual novel format, and each Servant has their own scenario which the player can explore. Servants are obtained through the gacha mechanic.

The lore of the game is more or less like this: the Player Character (named Ritsuka Fujimaru in other FGO media) is a Japanese Ordinary High School Student who has lived his or her life more or less peacefully in the Japan of 2015 / 2016, until they sign up on a whim on a seemingly innocent Master program funded by an organization named the Chaldea Security Organization. Soon, however a crisis unleashes: as the PC is going through their (failed) first meeting with the Chaldea people, a bomb attack is unleashed in their HQ, and many staff members plus other potential Masters are killed or wounded. The MC and a girl named Mash Kyrielight are among the few survivors, and soon they're briefed on what and why Chaldea has been gathering people from all around the world...

As it turns out, Chaldea SO is a group that must preserve the exitence of humanity. Their MO is to meld tech and magecraft together to do so, creating among other things a wondrous machine named CHALDEAS whic is a simulator of our world's existence - its past, present and future. But at some point CHALDEAS itself could not see the future anymore, meaning The End of the World As We Know It is about to arrive... After the organization sees the starting point of this world-ending disaster is the Grail War of Fuyuki City in 2004, they started gathering people like the MC who had potential to use Chaldeas' Summoning System (known as FATE), which would allow them to summon many historical / fictional / myth people so they'll become their Servants and fight under their commands.

The MC and Mash, who actually is a Demi-Servant (a human fused with a Servant themself) rather than a proper Master, hurry towards Fuyuki alongside the young Chaldeas director Olga Marie Animusphere and a mysterious creature named Fou. They start fighting their way there under the watchful eye of both the Chaldeas scientist Dr. Romani Archaman (another of the few survivors among the staff) and the friendly Servant Leonardo DaVinci (who, however, is now a beautiful lady who looks like Lisa del Giocondo, the model for Leonardo's Mona Lisa). Little do they all know what awaits them, for investigating the enormous changes in Fuyuki and seeing their connection to the End of the World is just the first step. . .

Warning: There WILL be many spoilers, marked and unmarked, regarding other Nasuverse works, especially Fate/stay night.

Tropes used in Fate: Grand Order include:

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Tropes related to the Gameplay

• Character Tiers: Turned on its head. Characters are ranked by a Star system, going from One Star (the most common ones) to the Five Stars (the rest), but this does NOT automatically means a One-Star Servant is completely useless. in fact, Hans Christian Andersen is "merely" a Two-Star, but his Support Party Member-like Noble Phantasm can be VERY useful to keep the party in good health via buffind them, healing them, etc.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Each of the Command Cards have their own colors:
  • RED: Buster Cards (high direct damage, don't build the Noble Phantasm (NP) gauge)
  • BLUE: Arts Cards (mid direct damage, don't allow Critical Hits)
  • GREEN: Quick Cards (low direct damage, high chance of Critical Hits)
• Limit Break: The Noble Phantasms themselves.
• Personality Powers: Each Servant's Skills, stats, attacks, etc. are based on their real lives, their personalities as humans / fictional characters and the personalities they have now.
• Turn-Based Strategy: How the Battles themselves work.

Tropes related to the Story

• Adaptation Expansion: For Servants who either were villains or overlooked in other Nasuverse media. ie, Hassan of the Cursed Arm and Avicebron are among the MC's allies here rather than enemies and are given more sympathetic sides.
• After the End: By the time the Prologue is over, Chaldea is more or less what's left from the world...
  • Each of the Lostbelts is wiped out after the fights in there
• All Just a Dream: The Prison Tower event is more or less like this, with the Protagonist slipping in and out of consciousness in Chaldeas whereas his/her mind is in the Chateau d'If.
  • This also happens to Mash at some point. It's because Solomon is trying to sway her to his side
• Alternate Timeline: Quite a bit of this goes on. ie., the Fuyuki that became the First Singularity is hosting its first Grail War, NOT the Fifth like in Fate/Stay Night. The Servants there are not the same either; ie., the cast finds a Cu Chulainn who is NOT a Lancer, but a Caster. It's revealed MUCH later that the founder of Chaldeas, Olga Marie's dad Maisbury, is the one who won. And his Servant was a Caster. And one who was NOT Cu Chulainn.
  • This is the basis behind the Lostbelts - they're not parts of history that have been altered and thus must be set right, but are replacing such histories and must be wiped out, lest history itself will collapse.
• Reality Ensues: Sheherazade aka Caster of the Nightless City's overall Deconstruction regarding her backstory: night after night of spinning wonderful tales in order to extend one life for another can drive anyone to an extreme fear of death.