"Fuga Melodies of Steel" is a 20 houer long turn based JRPG about a groupe of animal children that go on a quest to save there families.

It has the most fun turn based combat I ever experienced. Its not that hard but I need to keep my head in the game at all times or things will go south fast. Very few fights feel (gameplay wise) like mindless filler.

Now there are a few things that might be a turn of to others. Fuga is super linear with almost no exploration. There are no sidequests at all and you can not grind in this game.

Now I think those aspects actully helped the developers to balance the game. Its in my opinion very well balanced. I only lament the lack of an optional super boss.

Fuga is on most modern consoles, its on Game Pass and it has a free demo which is just straight up the first 3 chapters of the game so you can try it out and see if its your cup of tea.