VGChartz’s Miles Gregory: “2023 was a unbelievable 12 months for video video games generally, nevertheless it was significantly notable for individuals who love RPGs, particularly these of a Western fashion. We noticed the discharge of the extremely anticipated Starfield from Bethesda, the identical studio that arguably helped evolve the Western RPG style into what it’s right this moment. Baldur’s Gate III took the world by storm, offering an expertise that modernizes the outdated Western RPG components whereas concurrently paying shut respect to the Dungeons & Dragons supply materials from which it is based mostly off of. The discharge of Remaining Fantasy XVI pushed the sequence into a brand new path, with fight that feels quick, fluid, satisfying, and distinctly Western in fashion opposite to what the sequence, and even the developer, is famend for.
However should you’re on the lookout for one thing that feels a bit extra just like the Sq. Enix of outdated, look no additional than Sea of Stars, which as soon as once more proved that you simply don’t should be a big studio to make a memorable and critically acclaimed RPG. With so many unbelievable video games to select from, who will the winner be?”