Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic was indeed a masterpiece ahead of its time. Featuring a turn-based combat system that repulsed a younger me, and it took me years to understand and appreciate what a gem KOTOR truly is. KOTOR is an RPG in the truest sense, and it always boggled me how no … Read more

Action RPG is perhaps the most popular genre of video games, second only to first-person shooters, with games like Skyrim and Dark Souls becoming household names. Sadly this popularity also means that many great video games like Dragon’s Dogma were buried beneath the rubble of the success of the aforementioned prominent titles. Dragon’s Dogma is … Read more

Slime Rancher is what the gaming community calls a farm game, but it’s a life sim in terms of genre. The concept is pretty simple, set on an alien planet far away from ours, you play as Beatrix LeBeau, a rancher, and your goal is to grow crops. Pretty straightforward in its goals and objectives, … Read more

There’s a sense of calmness and relaxation to playing games that focus on exploration and story more than frantic combat, where the key to survival is solving puzzles rather than flicking onto opponents while you try to outrun a physically impossible gas bubble. Games like Night In The Woods have seen a reemergence with the … Read more

Many survival-horror fans believe that Resident Evil 4 killed the genre. Unfortunately, When Resident Evil shifted its focus from horror and introduced a little more action with fewer survival elements, every other horror franchise followed suit. Silent Hill, among many other franchises, saw the release of action focused instalments. While some games like Dead Space … Read more

I have always held Arkane Studios in high regard. They’ve come up with games like Dishonored, Prey and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Games that I consider the best in their genre and are some of my all-time favorites. Dishonored was released in 2012 and is a stealth focused action-adventure game. The story follows … Read more

It’s hard to assign Outer Wilds to a genre; it’s a non-linear exploration game that plays out in a first-person perspective. If you’ve never played the game, I can’t talk much about the game; if you have played the game, you’ll understand why. Outer Wilds is set in space, and after a brief introduction, the … Read more

I have often found myself wanting to play a game without the stress or tension of winning. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy challenging games a lot, but it’s good to sit down and play a game at your own pace every once in a while. Enter Satisfactory, a simulation game with just an open-world … Read more

Heavy Rain is a game the focuses more on its narrative and “restricts” gameplay around it. It was developed by Quantic Dream and released in 2010 for the PS3. If you’ve played the game, it won’t surprise you that the script was 2,000 pages long. The game is played in a third-person view as the … Read more

Mount and Blade is the type of game that you don’t get to see very often. Imagine Age of Empires, but it’s an RPG and you are playing in 3rd person view with the freedom to do whatever you want on an open-world map. There is truly no game that fully imitates the Mount and … Read more

It’s unlikely that Risk of Rain went under any roguelike fan’s radar. It was developed by Hopoo Games and released in 2013 to great praise. To briefly summarize, Risk of Rain was a co-op 2D platformer that featured Metroidvania like level design and roguelike gameplay. The game drops the players on an alien planet full … Read more

Life Is Strange really impressed me the first time I played it. And then I played it again, just to see how things would turn out if I made different choices. It’s really hard to describe Life Is Strange since it doesn’t play like a traditional game. The industry term for these kinds of games … Read more

Firewatch is a visually stunning game, with a brilliant soundtrack to match. What’s fascinating is that most of the gameplay involves you talking on a handheld radio with your supervisor. You don’t run around shooting people or slaying monsters. Instead, the choices you make in dialogue shape the narrative. And there are branching storylines, so … Read more

For The King is a game that may look like another cheap cash-grab at first glance. After all, it looks like a mobile game and the story feels extremely generic at first. The king of a once-great land has died, and evil forces have taken over what used to be a flourishing empire. The queen … Read more

Prison Architect is one of the happier stories to come out of crowdfunding for video games. The game’s pre-alpha build was made available in 2012 and saw its final release in 2015. In 2019, Paradox Interactive acquired the publishing rights for Prison Architect. Prison Architect plays in a 2-D top-down view, giving the player the … Read more

With releases such as Fallout: New Vegas and KOTOR II, there’s little doubt that Obsidian Entertainment has a strong understanding of RPG as a genre. In 2012 the company launched a Kickstarter for the spiritual successor to the Icewind Dale series; they called it Pillars of Eternity. The Kickstarter managed to raise over 4 million … Read more

Everyone’s heard of Nancy Drew, a fictional character created by Edward Stratemeyer in 1930. He initially published the detective’s stories as a counterpart to his popular among the boys’ novel “Hardy Boys”, which took off from there. Both Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew are now ghostwritten, becoming favourites of teenagers for generations to come. Related … Read more

Wizard101, released in 2008, is your standard MMORPG affair in a fantasy setting. It’s, for the most part, a pretty bare-bones experience. But it has to be noted that the game has seen regular updates and balance changes for over 12 years. There are newer questlines introduced and graphical updates, so the game doesn’t look … Read more

For the longest time, I always believed that System Shock was a game like Bioshock. But, of course, I was far from right, Bioshock didn’t feature any need for stealth, and the RPG elements were very pseudo with a linear path that the players must take to finish the game. There are choices along the … Read more