Author: mikyael0001
I write about games for a living (lucky me, right?) and as much of a dream as that is, it has some downsides. If you can believe it. One of them is that I often don’t find games very stimulating or motivating. When you need to play something that’s not exactly to your taste as often as once a week to ensure you’re covering it correctly, you often find yourself engaging ‘work’ brain, rather than ‘fun’ brain. Pumping 50 hours into CoD in a week can be rough when you also need to spend a lot of the 9-to-5 editing,…
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is out now, and it’s a corker of an RPG—hence the 90% score. It’s also extremely dense, and it’ll give you a lot to juggle once you’ve left the mostly linear introduction. To make your jaunt through Bohemia a bit easier, we’ve put together a list of eight tips that’ll help you put your best (heavily armoured) foot forward.We’ve also created plenty of guides to help you through some of the more involved quests and treasure hunts. So if you get stuck on anything, we’ve got your back.Start searching for your faithful hound ASAP(Image credit: Deep…
Third party DnD publisher Kobold Press has announced a new RPG called Riverbank. This launch is the first real departure from Dungeons and Dragons 5e for the company, which specializes in publishing material for Wizards of the Coast’s popular roleplaying game, and also recently started up its own system, Tales of the Valiant, built on the back of 5e. Launching on BackerKit in April 2025, Riverbank is about as different from Dungeons and Dragons as you could imagine. Rather than delving into dungeons, fighting monsters, and hauling back treasure, players will be asked to “navigate the intricacies – and often…
2024 was a magnificent year for memorable indie games, with the all-conquering Balatro even securing a nomination for The Game Awards’ top honor. But its creator ‘LocalThunk’ is a big champion of his fellow indies, highlighting other greats including Animal Well, Dungeons and Degenerate Gamblers, and the fantastic Arco. The stunning Mesoamerican RPG is a real sleeper hit, with 97% of players recommending it, and its clever tactical combat and beautiful pixel-art design completely won my heart, but it didn’t get the attention it deserved. If you missed it, however, you’ve now got the chance to catch up for cheap…
I am an absolute freak for BioWare’s 2002 D&D RPG Neverwinter Nights, and somehow this unkillable game just keeps chugging along: Beamdog just put out a new, official update for its 2018 enhanced edition re-release that was assembled by members of Neverwinter Nights’ still-active mod scene—if that sounds familiar to you, this isn’t the first community update that’s been officially christened by Beamdog.”This release was developed for personal enjoyment and out of goodwill for our fellow players and creators by unpaid software engineers from the NWN community,” the update reads, with the “unpaid software engineers” in question going by the…
Summary Some RPGs prioritize co-op play for a great multiplayer experience. Co-op RPGs like Divinity: Original Sin 2 require proper teamwork to succeed. Teamwork is crucial in RPGs like Monster Hunter: World to defeat tough enemies. Most role-playing games position themselves as single-player experiences first. This is what most players expect from the genre, but there’s nothing wrong with some RPGs prioritizing co-op play to let friends have a great time in certain video games. Related 8 Best Guile Heroes In RPGs, Ranked Being the noble hero is fun, but sometimes, it’s fun to play as a character with a…
Persona and Shin Megami Tensei composer Shoji Meguro is making a turn-based sci-fi RPG about private military companies gunning through the ashes of a nuclear war. He’s working with Ilya Kuvshinov, the illustrator who created character designs for Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045, and Lotus Juice, a rapper who has contributed sick beats to any number of Personae. So if nothing else Guns Undarkness is probably going to look and sound quite fancy. But how does it play? Meguro has made his name as a musician: I have no idea how well that expertise translates to designing combat systems.…
Until recently, the only “game over” screens I’ve seen in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 were due to my own shoddy swordsmanship. It’s rarely anything exciting – maybe I tried to pull off a flashy Master Strike and instead got a mace to the face, or picked a fight with bandits who in hindsight looked like two-legged tanks.That changed during For Whom The Bell Tolls, a fairly early quest in the main story with ludicrously high stakes. The resulting stress – and a grand total of three game overs – has taken years off my life, but I wouldn’t have it…
It probably won’t be long before you can run around in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s meticulously crafted medieval world with a Glock, as developer Warhorse Studios has announced that official mod support is on the way to PC.The good news comes just over a week after Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 launched on PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC. It’s not at all unusual for big RPGs to get official mod support from developers, but it’s not necessarily the norm for it to happen so soon after launch. By comparison, it took Baldur’s Gate 3 over a year to add official…
The thrill of any good RPG is the bittersweet taste of hard-won success. Allies may have been felled, and blood may been spilled by the gallon, but standing tall and proud as the victor once the dust settles offers a thrill unlike any other. Unlike traditional turn-based RPGs, tactics RPGs offer entirely new ways to test players’ strategic mettle. So much more than assigning orders to characters and grinding for levels, strategic RPGs offer exactly what their name implies: tactical combat of the grandest scale. Choosing which units to send into battle, how to take advantage of different terrain, gaining…