Platforms: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC Genre: JRPG, Action, Open-World Star Ocean is one of the more niche JRPG franchises, even compared to the likes of Tales or other mid-tier series. However, like most franchises, it has only lasted this long (since 1996's Star Ocean) because of its loyal fanbase and

Publisher All in! Games and developer Ironbird Creations just announced a stylish-looking action RPG title called Phantom Hellcat. There's no release date, but it's coming out for PC, Xbox Series, Xbox One, PS4, and PS5. You play Jolene who has to rescue her mother from demons who kidnapped her. You fight said demon

Platform: Nintendo Switch Genre: JRPG with multiple protagonists that eventually converge The Japanese role-playing game genre has always prided itself with getting a ragtag bunch of heroes from different walks of life banding with each other to combat a common foe or escalating situation that threatens them and th

Chinese developer Xiameng has announced a new game called Codename: Wandering Sword which is a pixel-based RPG set in ancient China. The game's story is about a young man who ends up becoming a wuxia under the Sect Leader of Wudang thanks to politics and backstabbing. Check out the trailer below and see if it loo

Platform: Nintendo Switch Genre: Turn-based strategy game throwback to Tactics Ogre Since the release of Octopath Traveler in 2018, Square Enix has expressed a newfound interest in its era of retro games, as well as the visual aesthetic known as HD-2D. Easily spotted by a depiction of pixelated 2D sprites in a lavi

Platform(s): PC (version played), Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One Genre: JRPG made by a Western company November is a heckuva time to be a League of Legends fan. With the Netflix Arcane series out and Riot Games' surprise spin-off launches, it looks like the company is going above and beyond content-wise. And that's

The E3 2021 rumours and leaks are starting to spring up now, with this first salvo looking pretty convincing. According to a recent Reddit thread, 2K Games may be announcing the following games during E3 2021 week (11th June): A Borderlands spin-off title code-named Wonderlands: Codename Daffodil, which starts

Platform: PC Genre: Auto-RPG Simulation It's hard to pin down Devolver Digital and Four Quarter's Loop Hero with a genre label. It's actually an amalgamation of a lot of things: a computer RPG with an 80s art style, a digital card game, a simulation, a strategy game, a roguelike. What I can tell you is that all

What do you get when you have one of the world's biggest anime streaming networks getting into mobile RPG games? A giant games publishing arm taking the best of Japanese mobile RPG gacha nonsense and churning them out for the English-speaking masses. With the latest one being Cygames' Princess Connect! Re: Dive (Pricon

Platform: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo SwitchGenre: Turn-based RPG, Retro, Pixel Art Why is it that no one's ever made a Harry Potter RPG? Sure, that Hogwarts Legacy game is coming next year, but it's taken them all these years to finally make one. Well, indie developer Happy Ray Games has beaten Warner Br

Hungarian developer NeocoreGames has announced King Arthur: Knight's Tale, an XCOM-like turn-based tactical strategy with a heavier emphasis on RPG elements. King Arthur: Knight's Tale is a modern retelling of classic Arthurian mythology filtered through the dark fantasy tropes, a twist on the traditional tales of

Zephyr, an ex-Advent and ex-Skirmisher hybrid who eschews guns for her fists, is a badass. When she first joins my XCOM: Chimera Squad team, all she has is a mean punch that takes out squishy grunts in one hit, while tougher enemies lose a nice chunk of their health and receive a negative status effect. 12 hours in, sh

Dank corridors with the virtual smell of death surrounding barbarians, sorceresses, and shapeshifting druids. Crimson rivers spiralling within randomly-generated dungeons and pitfalls. Innocents sacrificed for a greater evil that started the Diablo mythos. Large bosses falling apart in R-rated violent chunks. That's t

If you're one of those fans who miss strategy RPG in your Final Fantasy brands, the upcoming Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius spin-off, titled War of The Visions, may sate your thirst. Assuming you don't mind playing on mobile and doing a bit of gachaing. And if you speak or can read Japanese, you don't have to wait that l

Ever since it was announced, a lot of western RPG fans (including myself) have been thoroughly excited for Greedfall, an upcoming open world character-focused RPG. Comparisons with Bioware's Dragon Age series are unavoidable as the games possess many similar elements. Greedfall takes place in a setting that heavily re

In another timeline, a game like Fire Emblem: Three Houses would have never existed. Ask any avid fan and you’ll learn that, once upon a time, Nintendo wanted to axe Fire Emblem for good. But we all know that’s not how the story goes. As the series sunk to its lowest point ever, Intelligent Systems creat

Good news for long-time Sakura Wars fans: the upcoming Project Sakura Wars title will be out in Japan this 12th December. And fans will be able to put down 14,800 yen for a limited edition featuring a Sakura Wars CD song collection and an A4-sized 72-page art book featuring illustrations from the series. The bad news?

Sex sells, whether it's prioritizing female streamers on your livestream platform or adding boob physics to your fighting games. Nowhere is this adage more apparent in the latest Kickstarter project from FOW Interactive, called Subverse, which has now gone beyond the US$2 million threshold as this time of typing. With

In case you haven't been paying attention to all the post-BlizzCon news the past week or so, Blizzard announced an upcoming Diablo game for mobile phones which caused a lot more harm than good. Gaming fans are mad and feel like it's a betrayal, while game journalists and the media are championing the idea while also be

If you recall the Disgaea series, that crazy turn-based strategy RPG from developer Nippon Ichi, you can stack your teammates atop each other to form a devastating killing machine. Feeling like they can top that idea, the devs announced a new 2D action JRPG that makes this mechanic its sole focus. The new game is call