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Rule, Rewind, Repeat: Why Sovereign Tower, [a kingdom management x RPG hybrid] Might Be One of 2026’s Most Original RPGs

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Mass Effect 5 is going to release "a long time" after Dragon Age: The Veilguard because BioWare has become a "one project studio," veteran suggests

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Bethesda's former Elder Scrolls loremaster on why he left, Starfield's 'communication breakdowns', and how he wanted The Elder Scrolls 6 'to be The Empire Strikes Back'

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Hopetown studio Longdue confirm original narrative lead on Disco Elysium-esque RPG's exit, but say its opening is now playable

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Skyrim scholar uses geometry to determine how walkable the RPG's best cities are, and the results are terrible: "Worse than some car-centric suburbs in Texas"

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As if making the System Shock remake wasn't tough enough, someone apparently called the FBI on Nightdive during development

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“Lore should not be a strict set of rules," says Hytale developer in a tribute to player "archaeology"

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Larian says Divinity's character customisation will be 'even better' than Baldur's Gate 3's: 'More colors, more options, more control'

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Isometric Tactics RPG Shadow of the Road, [set in Steampunk Japan], Confirms 2026 Release With a new Trailer

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Most Promising cRPG Starfinder Afterlight shows new gameplay and lines up a public demo for 2026

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The Witcher 3's former lead quest designer says 'of course' there is romance in upcoming vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker: 'You can expect to build relationships with characters'

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Larian hope to have future companions spend less time jumping straight into your bed, and more time with each other

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No Law sounds like Cyberpunk 2077 meets Atomfall, and its "opt in" narrative already has my attention: "If 100 players play the game, there should be 100 different user stories"

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Larian reddit AMA discussion about Divinity, AI, etc.

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Quite frankly, the AI discussion isn’t very interesting to me, but I know it is to others, so we’ll start with that. Note that I may liberally cherry-pick the Q+A here, so feel free to view the link for full quotes and context.

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Rakshasa, an upcoming Bloodlines-inspired, narrative-driven, first-person RPG set in a dark fantasy modern India, releases a reveal trailer

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Rebel Wolves isn't afraid of creating its own vampyric folklore for The Blood of Dawnwalker: "We want to tell a story with vampires, not a story about vampires only"

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Dev Of Cancelled ‘90s Witcher Game Explains Why It Got Cut

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Fallout: New Vegas lead writer 'loved writing' Yes Man, but thinks his questline may have been a mistake: 'It lets you get through the game without getting your hands dirty'

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 nearly had a San-Andreas-like Fat Henry system that would have let you create Bohemia's chunkiest boy, and forced you to wear clothes that fit to boot

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The Witcher 3 reporting winds continue to howl of mysterious extra DLC allegedly arriving this year, and there's one thing I'd love to see it do

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Fallout designer Tim Cain reckons his subsequent 3 projects were buggy games 'or, as people called them, flawed masterpieces' because 'we had a lot of feature ideas, we did not edit ourselves at all, and we were a small team'

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Fallout: London's next DLC, Last Orders, will be served up early this year if current pint-pulling plans hold

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Fallout 3's VATS system helped compensate for Bethesda's lack of shooting chops: "We were never going to create gun combat that was on par with Call of Duty or Battlefield"

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Bethesda's Todd Howard says "we are doing other things with Fallout that we haven’t announced, and there’ll come a time for that"

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Iron Tower Studios, creators of Age of Decadence and Colony Ship, annouce a new project titled Heralds of the Third Apocalypse with early alpha screenshots

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I'm not waiting 5 years for everyone to realize The Outer Worlds 2 is another Obsidian classic—I'm giving it its flowers now

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'A good idea, infinite drive, and lots of Diet Pepsi': How YouTube essayist Majuular's life changed course telling the story of Ultima across 2 years and more than 20 hours of documentaries

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Cyberpunk 2077 transformed into a stunning VHS visual experience using new ReShade preset — so 1980s real you start watching for mullets, another enthusiast benchmarks preset's visuals using an actual VHS recording

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Is it a good thing to exploit the systems?

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Commander Shepard actors will return for the new Mass Effect game 'with bells on' if BioWare asks them: 'Email the powers-that-be who make these games and say, Give us more Shepard'

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System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Edition is the absolute gold standard of remasters

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Old-School Battle Brothers-Inspired RPG – Dungeons & Warbands Overview

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Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy Alpha Released

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Bethesda lead says in the "time between Fallout 4 and Starfield," the "one thing" the studio has learned is that "there is no one definition of an RPG"

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Roadtrip RPG Keep Driving teaches you that a hitchhiker is just a friend you haven't met, and that friend might have weed

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Did Obsidian Master the Art of the Efficient Epic?

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Bethesda lead says the biggest difference between a fantasy RPG like Skyrim and a sci-fi RPG like Fallout is how you piece together the story

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Avowed didn't rewrite the RPG rulebook in 2025, but it still gave me some of my biggest gaming 'wow' moments of the year

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20 [Turn-based] RPGs and Strategy Games to Grab in the 2025 Steam Winter Sale

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Fallout: New Vegas lead writer worries Caesar's argument for authoritarianism 'was done a little too well,' but still believes 'you can't just make your tyrants cardboard villains'

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Indie Tactics RPG Valor of Man Gets an Extended Demo on Steam Until January 7, 2026

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“We started with the solid foundation that we inherited from Fallout 3”: How Fallout: New Vegas delivered a bigger, better post-apocalypse by sticking to the script – mostly

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs wanted negative feedback during playtests after deciding players should initially "feel extremely weak": "Then the validation of gaining strength feels earned"

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Swen Vincke says the price of RAM and SSDs means Larian will be doing lots of optimisation in Divinity's early access 'that we didn't necessarily want to do at that point in time'

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Larian talk Divinity, their next RPG after Baldur's Gate 3: "it's almost as though it's the first in the series"

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Hardcore Old-School RPG Knights of Frontier Valley Opens Playtest Sign-Ups, Unlocking in January

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Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy, a party-based RPG with dinosaurs, inspired by Infinity Engine titles, from the developers of Atom RPG, released on Steam

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Bethesda director Todd Howard says Elder Scrolls 6 is "progressing really well" and "the majority of the studio" is working on the Skyrim successor: "We have long pre-productions on things so that we feel good about them"

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Almost 30 years later, Fallout 1's depth of choice, chance, and consequence is still an RPG gold standard

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developers made my favorite RPG of 2025 by trusting their original vision: "We had the strength to say, 'Yes, that's what we want'"

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D&D unveils new open-world adventure game Warlock, but it's definitely not a turn-based RPG like Baldur's Gate 3

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I'm sad to report that you cannot romance the space octopus in Exodus, the Matthew McConaughey-starring space opera RPG from former BioWare devs

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The Temple of Elemental Evil, Troika's classic party‑based action focused D&D RPG, first released in 2003, is now available with updates on GOG and Steam

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Larian reveal a new Divinity RPG that boasts "greater breadth & depth than ever before"

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Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic announced as a KOTOR spiritual successor

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The Deus Ex remaster that everyone thinks looks awful is delayed, there's no new release date, and preorders are being refunded

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A Star Wars: KOTOR 2 Remake was "technically on the roadmap" as of March 2025, court docs reportedly reveal

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Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil, [an extensive Skyrim mod], introduces you to Anvil via a quest about child labour, a shirtless chase, and quick maths

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PC gaming's best inventory system is hidden in this obscure post-apocalyptic roguelike from the dawn of the survival [craze; NEO Scavenger]

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Neath, the Rogue Legacy devs' RPG set in an "irradiated, inverted tower" warped by godly whims, arrives 2026

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Titans of the Past, a deep party-based RPG, with town development in vein of HoMM, released on Steam

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Open World Tactics RPG Wartales Unveils New Expansion And Class – Screens and Trailer

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Avowed's new game plus, fresh kind of weapon and photo mode are now coming in a beefy anniversary update

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Skyblivion is 'in the best state it's ever been' but, you guessed it, it's also been delayed into 2026, and the dev team is once again asking for help to get it finished

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How the Investigation System Works In Upcoming CRPG Dark Heresy

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“Players are selfish”: Fallout 2’s Chris Avellone describes his game design philosophy

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After trying Unreal Engine, new fantasy RPG, [The Wayward Realms], led by ex-Elder Scrolls leads goes back to its Bethesda roots with a unique proprietary engine that's "already more than doubled our development speed"

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That Zelda-ish, Diablo-ish RPG Monkey Island designer Ron Gilbert was working on has, unfortunately, been canned

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says canon is 'whatever the owner of the IP says it is' but that's okay because 'the best part of interpretation is you can't be wrong'

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[Mamoru Oshii, director of Ghost in the Shell] and Death Stranding 2's pizza guy has "deep respect" for Hideo Kojima games, but hasn't been able to pull himself off Fallout 4 for 8 years

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Meet Cogg, the Ogryn Companion in Upcoming Isometric RPG Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy

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22 years since launch, a classic D&D adventure, [Temple of Elemental Evil] from the developer of Bloodlines, [Troika] is finally coming to Steam

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Clair Obscur creative director says he knew the game was going to be 'cool,' but he really didn't expect it to be so 'big'

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[Shores of Vaelithar, a] fantasy RPG that started as a viral AI-made video is 'free of AI-generated content,' pledges its maker

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The Outer Worlds 2 director doesn't want games to be "preachy," but the RPG's capitalist satire strikes a nerve "because this thing happens all the damn time, and we're just seeing it over and over on a loop"

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The Outer Worlds 2 lead says his RPG isn't a critique of capitalism, but Baldur's Gate 3's publishing lead isn't so sure: "Expression in video games is cooked"

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Baldur's Gate 3 is 'an inspiration' for CD Projekt, but it's all-in on big open worlds: 'We are definitely not going to make a game like Larian did'

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'Child labor is unbeatable': Baldur's Gate 3 players discover how to build an army of unkillable kids through the power of polymorph and German media laws

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Of Ash and Steel, a third person fantasy RPG with an in-depth combat system, expansive world-building, a professions system and dynamic NPCs, released on Steam.

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The Blood of Dawnwalker has no main quest, apparently, and now I'm a lot more interested in playing it

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Dosa Divas is a flavourful RPG village roadtrip and a more assured follow-up to Thirsty Suitors

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"We inherited a true hardcore engineering and design challenge": Hytale co-director "genuinely" means it when he says the sandbox RPG is "not good enough" right now

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Isometric CRPG Glasshouse Launches New Trailer and Limited-Time Steam Playtest

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The Chinese Room's cofounder told Paradox 'we can't make Bloodlines 2' but then they did make Bloodlines 2 and it was like 'untangling an anaconda fuckball of competing priorities'

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Back to the Future, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Stranger Things Blend Together in the ’80s-Inspired RPG New Chapter in Echo Generation Series

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After bagging a Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 quest designer for The Witcher 4, CD Projekt snaps up BioShock 4's former narrative lead to work on Cyberpunk 2

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D&D tabletop-style RPG Battlemarked is out on PC today with a singleplayer mode for Baldur's Gate 3 nutters

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says today's games suffer from trying 'to be everything for everyone' when they should be learning from '80s games: 'These games were really focused, because they had to be'

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The Blood of Dawnwalker's latest gameplay trailer starts out looking like a Witcher spinoff, then the main character starts walking on walls

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Astral Outcast, an indie survival RPG where a space captain gets lost in space during a routine voyage, released in early access on Steam.

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Players flood back to co-op survival RPG Enshrouded as the new 'Wake of the Water' update gets everyone wet

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The Witcher 3 didn't originally make you choose between romancing Yennefer or Triss: 'This decision was made pretty late'

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Fallout 3 remaster reportedly in production as Bethesda boss Todd Howard confirms the developer is working on Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout 76, "and some other things"

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Baldur's Gate 2 added romance to the RPG series after its writing director played Final Fantasy 7, and was "scared shitless" by the JRPG: "This is how a game should be"

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Rue Valley, a narrative RPG about a man trapped in a time loop, with incredible hand-drawn style art with comic book stylization, released on Steam.

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CD Projekt's co-CEO says The Witcher 2's momentous midgame choice was an 'experiment' and now regards it as a 'waste of resources'

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As Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's latest DLC launches, Warhorse reveals its grand plan for the future: 'We want to establish ourselves as the new kings of RPGs'

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The Elder Scrolls 6 is "still a long way off", but that's not stopping Todd Howard teasing an Oblivion Remastered-style shadow drop

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's loss is The Witcher 4's gain as CD Projekt Red picks up the lead gameplay designer behind one of the best parts of the action RPG

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Todd Howard says that Fallout 4's cinematic dialogue system 'really did not resonate' with players, even though Bethesda 'spent forever' working on it

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