I come bearing good news and bad news. The good? RPG The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon will be launching for Switch 2 alongside its previously announced PC and console versions. The bad? The game’s release window was originally set for this (Northern) fall, but that has now been pushed back a little to January 2026.…
Onion Games has announced that the English localization of RPG Stray Children will be released for PC as well as Nintendo Switch sometime this year. This is the first time it is coming to Steam, as it has only launched in Japan for Nintendo Switch last December. And if you…
It’s easy to understand why Elden Ring Nightreign exists. The multiplayer side…
The Pokémon Company has announced the launch details for Pokémon Legends: Z-A,…
We’ve seen China grow rapidly as an international game development hub, and one of the most exciting things about that nations’ game development scene is that they seem to be every bit as enamoured with the RPG format as their neighbours in Japan. Codename: Wandering Sword is basically “what if…
Read MoreNacon and Spiders have announced a sequel to GreedFall, GreedFall 2 – The Dying World. It’s set in the same world as the original, and features much of the same intent, because GreedFall was a most excellent game and one of the smarter RPGs that has been released in recent…
Read MoreBig Bad Wolf, the developer behind 2018’s The Council, was the right developer to tackle Vampire: The Masquerade. The execution of Swansong isn’t perfect, but the effort to recreate the pen-and-paper experience is spot-on, and so, the team at Big Bad Wolf have achieved something that’s increasingly rare in video…
Read MoreOn the ongoing recommendation of one of the regulars on the DDNet stream, I am going to play a bit of ANNO tonight. All I know is that it is a yuri-themed action-adventure game with RPG elements and a cyberpunk vibe. Honestly, I’m surprised it has taken me this long…
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Sword and Fairy might not have the same prestige attached to it worldwide as Final Fantasy, but it’s no exaggeration to say that it is the Final Fantasy of China. The series has been around since 1995, and has been so popular in its homeland that it has spawned everything…
Read MoreAsmodee Digital is best known for its board game adaptations (including the rather good Gloomhaven, and classics like Ticket to Ride, Terraforming Mars, and Carcassonne). The publisher is looking to push into related-but-different spaces, however, which makes the RPG a natural stepping stone for it. Enter Dark Envoy, a guns…
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Once upon a time, before BioWare announced itself to the world with Baldur’s Gate, and long before Atari got the rights to Dungeons & Dragons and then all but buried the iconic property (in terms of video games, at least), there was a company called SSI. SSI was perhaps better…
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The Ascent looks gorgeous in the kind of grim and nihilistic way that the best in the cyberpunk genre can look gorgeous. That gets it off to a most excellent start. From wading through the gank of refuse waste and… much less wholesome byproducts from humanity’s essentially wasteful existence, right…
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