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Mado Monogatari: Fia and the Wondrous Academy

Posted by Patrick Gann on September 9, 2025

If you’ve seen anything about the new Idea Factory title, Mado Monogatari: Fia and the Wondrous Academy, and you’re wondering whether that name sounds familiar, then you are my kind of gamer. Because, frankly, that was my immediate thought as well. It required a brief history lesson, and I have to s… Read More »

Random Encounter 330 – Random Book Club – 50 Indie Games that Changed the World

Posted by Jonathan Logan on September 8, 2025

On this episode of Random Encounter, we’re doing a Random Book Club for the brand-new tome from Bitmap Books: 50 Indie Games that Changed the World. Over the last 20 years, the indie game scene has become just as important as the AAA industry, with games like Hollow Knight: Silksong showing sales nu… Read More »

RPGs Coming This Week, 9/7/25

Posted by Gio Castillo on September 7, 2025

This edition of the column should really be RPG Coming This Week, as it’s one of those rare times where we only have one item on our agenda. Whether this one game is even an RPG is… debatable, but we as a site land on it being more role-playing than not. I personally dislike arguing about these th… Read More »

Stellar Blade Original Soundtrack PLUS

Posted by Rob White on September 6, 2025

SHIFT UP’s Stellar Blade soundtrack turned out to be one of my favourites of 2024, taking me by surprise with its blend of contemporary popular music genres, electronics, and experimentation. I love how it moves from mellow atmospheric pieces to mid-tempo ambient pop to full-blown electro-bangers. Y… Read More »

Shin Megami Tensei 30th Anniversary -Special Sound Compilation-

Posted by Patrick Gann on September 6, 2025

The Shin Megami Tensei 30th Anniversary -Special Sound Compilation- is a massive collection of music split between a 5-CD set and the baffling addition of a USB stick for what would have been another 14 CDs’ worth of music. In some ways, this set offers a massive, inclusive look at the music of Atlu… Read More »

RPGFan Music of the Year 2024

Posted by Mike Salbato on September 5, 2025

Well, it’s that time of the year again! Time to celebrate the best of RPG and adventure game music throughout all of… what do you mean it’s September 2025 now? What do you mean that we got most of this written at the beginning of the year but it took until now for the last pieces to come together… Read More »

RPGFan Chapters Review: Boss Fight Books ‘EverQuest’ by Matthew S. Smith

Posted by Paul Skevington on September 4, 2025

I shouldn’t know anything about EverQuest. I’ve not been a PC gamer for decades, as I’ve lost the desire to be at the cutting edge of technology when it comes to indulging my gaming passion. I’ve never played World of Warcraft or, despite the evangelism of my RPGFan colleagues, booted up that time-c… Read More »

Bustafellows Season 2

Posted by Audra Bowling on September 3, 2025

It’s time for a return trip to New Sieg to hang out with aspiring journalist Teuta Bridges and her colorful found family in new high-stakes situations with otome visual novel Bustafellows Season 2! But does the second season reach the storied heights of the first? Stay tuned for the next episode! Bu… Read More »

We Played Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles – Hands-On Preview

Posted by Scott Clay on September 2, 2025

I can’t stress enough how much I enjoy Final Fantasy Tactics, and I can’t begin to count how many times I have actually played the game. It’s one of those games that sticks with you and is enjoyable multiple times in many different ways. I still consider it the best Final Fantasy game, and I am very… Read More »

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles Director Kazutoyo Maehiro Interview

Posted by Scott Clay on September 2, 2025

Thanks to the lovely people at Square Enix, I had the opportunity to play a small portion of the upcoming Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles and, more importantly, sit down and do an interview with the game’s director, Kazutoyo Maehiro. As a huge fan of the series, I want to thank Ma… Read More »

Rhythm Encounter 165 – It’s Wild Arms, Pardner!

Posted by Mike Salbato on September 1, 2025

We last celebrated the beloved Wild Arms series in 2022’s episode 93, where we paired its Western stylings with Shadow Hearts, in honor of the then-new Armed Fantasia/Penny Blood Kickstarter. Now, almost exactly three years later, we are talking exclusively about Wild Arms. This series of RPGs from… Read More »

RPGs Coming This Week, 8/31/25

Posted by Adem Yilmaz on August 31, 2025

If you like your games with a heavy serving of plot, narrative, story, whatever you want to call it, this might be the week for you. This edition of RPGs Coming This Week features a few adventure games that I fear may go under the radar, considering the big bug in the room, so here’s us giving some… Read More »

Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian Interview with Junzo Hosoi and Yasunori Sakuda

Posted by Des Miller on August 29, 2025

Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian is just around the corner, and it already appears to be both a return to form and an impressively expanded follow-up to the mobile and PC gacha game Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy and the Polar Night Liberator. While details on ju… Read More »

Confessions of an Easy RPG Gamer

Posted by Jimmy Turner on August 28, 2025

Greetings, RPGFan readers! My name is Jimmy Turner, and I am writing this because I have a secret. It is embarrassing, dare I say shameful, but the time has come when I must get this weight off my chest and bare my dark secret to the world. So here goes…I play games on easy. There, I said it.… Read More »

Retro Encounter 467 – Drakengard Part I

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on August 28, 2025

Wise men choose Retro Encounter before war. In this week’s episode of Retro Encounter, we are in pain. Wait, I mean we’re playing Yoko Taro’s first directorial effort: Drakengard. We discuss the first ending, the (purposely?) frustrating gameplay, all while trying to avoid going insane. Can a game t… Read More »

We Played The Outer Worlds 2: Hands-On Preview

Posted by Scott Clay on August 27, 2025

No two playthroughs will be the same; this is a philosophy many great RPGs and games follow. And one of the best publishers to push this philosophy forward has always been Obsidian Entertainment. Their long-awaited sequel, The Outer Worlds 2, looks to be no exception to this kind of gameplay, featur… Read More »

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers

Posted by Jerry Williams on August 26, 2025

Do we judge a game irrespective of its peers, or view it within the context of what games currently offer? Naturally, this is entirely up to you, though it’s a question I’ve grappled with while playing Wuchang: Fallen Feathers. A paint-by-numbers soulslike, Wuchang makes no apologies for its similar… Read More »

Quartet

Posted by Neal Chandran on August 25, 2025

Quartet is the latest RPG from Something Classic Games, the studio behind Shadows of Adam. A former colleague penned a lovely editorial about how Shadows of Adam is more than its classic-inspired veneer would suggest. Quartet is an even more ambitious title that shoots for the moon and makes it. Qua… Read More »

Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar

Posted by Niki Fakhoori on August 25, 2025

Zephyr Town’s bazaar was once a grand gathering of merchants that enticed tourists from far and wide, and it can return to that magnificent state with some hard work. Your day-to-day life in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar, a remake of the Nintendo DS title Harvest Moon DS: Grand Bazaar, runs a rhyth… Read More »

RPGs Coming This Week, 8/24/25

Posted by Adem Yilmaz on August 24, 2025

In this jam-packed edition of RPGs Coming This Week, the latest entries in long-running series mix with straight-up new titles. From boundary-pushing action combat to tried-and-true turn-based battles, we run the gamut of everything role-playing as we close out August and head into the ‘Ber months.… Read More »

Final Fantasy Piano Collections, Ranked

Posted by Patrick Gann on August 23, 2025

If you polled casual and die-hard RPG fans alike for which series’ music they’re most familiar with, I would assume Final Fantasy comes up a lot. Nobuo Uematsu’s name is known and celebrated, and rightfully so! If someone charged me with the task of ranking all of the Final Fantasy original soundtra… Read More »

Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail Patch 7.3 – The Promise of Tomorrow

Posted by Caitlin Argyros on August 21, 2025

I’ve mentioned in past Final Fantasy XIV reviews that the third major patch after an expansion is usually where the storyline of that expansion wraps up. Endwalker was an exception, as it concluded the entire MMO’s story arc in the main 6.0 patch, but Dawntrail returns to the standard format. These… Read More »

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Complete Edition

Posted by Tom Naylor on August 21, 2025

Ten years ago, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt graced our gaming platforms. It was an overnight smash hit, becoming the best-selling game of 2015 in the UK alone by its first week. CD Projekt RED, its developers, went from a rising star to a household name in a flash. It introduced millions of people (many… Read More »

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter Prologue Hands-On: A Cozy, Nostalgic, High-Velocity Adventure

Posted by Sean Cabot on August 20, 2025

Fighting against an ever-expanding game backlog is the closest comparison I have to experiencing a truly Sisyphean task, especially with how many RPGs I still need to play. The Trails series is the clearest example of this. With so many entries and such an interconnected story, it feels like even tr… Read More »

System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster

Posted by Tom Naylor on August 20, 2025

For many years, System Shock 2 was one of gaming’s white whales, at least where digital distribution was concerned. A combination of rights issues and a hunt for the source code spearheaded by dedicated fans meant that the game would not see an official release, digital or otherwise, until 2013. At… Read More »

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