The last five years have seen a tremendous resurgence of role-playing games, from the turn-based masterpieces of Baldur’s Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, to the action-packed Final Fantasy 7 ...

It was almost exactly one year ago when I first played Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake. At the time, I wasn’t quite sure how players were going to react. I knew that RPG historians would be happy to see ...

Square Enix’s HD-2D style has been an undeniable success since Octopath Traveler first popularized it. The beautiful pixel-based art style has been used for some of the best RPGs of recent years, but ...

The decade so far has catered to RPG fans of all kinds incredibly well. Games of different subgenres under the wider RPG umbrella have been released by developers with different stylistic approaches.

The past few years have felt like an embarrassment of riches when it comes to RPGs, and so expectations were high going into 2025. Thankfully, the last 12 months certainly lived up to such a bar.

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Maddie Fisher is a writer, journalist and game developer. She was born and raised on the east coast, having started working in games journalism over fifteen years ago. She tends to enjoy musical ...