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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 »

Caves of Qud

Posted by Aleks Franiczek on August 19, 2025

After 15 years in the making, Freehold Games’ Caves of Qud finally left Early Access in December 2024. After half a year of playing, I finally finished the campaign and feel qualified to review it. Many reviews I’ve seen of Caves of Qud begin similarly: the writer tells a fun anecdote particular to… Read More »

Crowdfunding Chronicles: The Twelve Slot Saloon

Posted by Tina Olah on August 18, 2025

Today’s installment of Catfunding…er…Crowdfunding Chronicles takes you to a Wild West wonderland populated by a colorful array of cute animals with guns, hats, and world-changing wishes.

Rhythm Encounter 164 – Sean Schafianski: The Sequel

Posted by Mike Salbato on August 18, 2025

It’s been almost exactly 11 years to the day since we last welcomed video game arranger, producer, and saxophonist Sean Schafianski onto Rhythm Encounter, so it’s long past time we had him on again! With a string of excellent new arrangement albums throughout last year and this year, there’s so much… Read More »

RPGs Coming This Week, 8/17/25

Posted by Adem Yilmaz on August 17, 2025

This week, there isn’t a lot to cover, but we do have an interesting contrast: two smaller titles that I’d rather no one sleep on (no pun intended) coming out alongside a port of a blockbuster game that absolutely no one slept on. RPGs Coming This Week casts a spotlight on all worthy releases in the… Read More »

Dice Gambit

Posted by Mark Roddison on August 15, 2025

Sometimes, a name hides far more than it suggests. Dice Gambit sounds like a modest, digital board game built around simple bets. So imagine my surprise when close inspection uncovered a cleverly designed tactical RPG packed with interlocking dice-based mechanics, sharp class-based combat, and nuanc… Read More »

Retro Encounter 466 – RPG Confessional IV

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on August 14, 2025

What about podcasts? You guys got any podcasts? In this week’s episode of Retro Encounter, the host re-opens the RPG confessional, a place where we admit to series that we’ve never played before, much to our shame. Don’t worry, though, we’re just here to encourage our friends to play good stuff! Who… Read More »

OFF (Remaster)

Posted by Aleks Franiczek on August 14, 2025

OFF is one of the preeminent forbears of today’s wide variety of narratively off-kilter, classic JRPG-inspired indies. The original game, made in RPG Maker 2003 and released in 2008, ignited a creative spark whose radical flame burns in many hits to follow: from Space Funeral to LISA: The Painful to… Read More »

Persona 5: The Phantom X

Posted by Audra Bowling on August 13, 2025

Persona 5 certainly has an impressive list of titles under its umbrella, with both the original “vanilla” version of the traditional RPG and its upgraded Royal counterpart co-existing alongside numerous genre spin-offs, including Strikers, Tactica, and Dancing in Starlight. By this point, it only ma… Read More »

Sword and Fairy: Together Forever

Posted by Audra Bowling on August 13, 2025

When western audiences think of grand, epic fantasy journeys, there’s no doubt that an RPG powerhouse series such as Final Fantasy comes to mind, or, when thinking of action RPGs, their thoughts might drift to Ys. With that in mind, the wuxia action RPG Sword and Fairy: Together Forever is a phenome… Read More »

Random Encounter 328 – The Phantom X Menace

Posted by Jonathan Logan on August 11, 2025

On this week’s Random Encounter, we’re discussing a mobile-based gacha spinoff of a beloved JRPG and a Wii U classic that has finally made its way to a modern console! Persona 5 has more than its share of spinoffs, including Persona 5 Royal, Persona 5 Strikers, Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, and P… Read More »

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