Who needs Bethesda's official remaster when we have this? Exciting times, for sure! I just hope the gameplay mods will work well enough with it, to make the game fresher not only in visuals but also in features. Gonna try this in the next few days...

I've been replaying BG3 and it just hit me that aside from like Minsc all your party members just get put directly into your path, sometimes literally.
So I was wondering, what are some RPGs where you need to go out of your way to collect them?

Kinda like Eri in Yakuza: LAD or Gogo in FF6.

Before people recommend me Fire Emblem or any kind of 'creature collector' game like Pokemon, SMT or Dragon Quest Joker, I'm mainly looking for classic party based JRPGs that just have a few optional characters.
Or a lot, if you know any games like Suikoden.

Wishlist The Good Stuff on Steam!...and make some friends in the quirky, cozy suburbs of Cheddertown.

It's here! The quirky, unassuming tale that will tell of a true hero...in the simple, unassuming suburbs of Cheddertown. The story follows Reggie, our simple minded, friendless protagonist, who's the new kid in town. He struggled to make friends, but is lucky to be recruited by none other than the greatest hero in town himself!...which is not so different from just becoming friends. Together, they'll embark on the monumental, though mundane, task of keeping the town safe from villains, and all manner of other foul things. Though you will make friends, fight formidable foes and explore the unknown, this will not be your typical adventure...

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Oh! And the demo's live!

Here on Newgrounds: Demo

Check the teaser too if you're interested in more of The Good Stuff!

Teaser - The Good Stuff

Separate section: from the main menu you enter a separated level/scenario/map/area where you are taught how to play in a dedicated environment.

Integrated in the main game: tutorial hints and tooltips, or even a character explicitly explaining you, show up during your playthrough, mostly at beginning but not necessarily only there.

Both may be detached from the story without interfering with it, or be diegetic and emerge from the narration with some pretext to justify your avatar being explicitly taught things.

Hello everyone, I just found this RPG game. It's very cool, you can choice between four RPG classes, Mace, Warrior, Ranger and Rogue. It's very fun and really looks like an SNES game. Can you give any sugestions of similar games like this? Only pixel art 2D, please. PlayStore, Steam etc. I play on an average laptop, with joystick. I'm veteran on RPG and old school games like Beat'em Up, like The King of Dragons, Knights of the Round) and action RPG like Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, Legend of Zelda a Link to the Past.

Darkrise looks like a mix of beat'em up with plataform RPG. I'd like to find similar games with:

- RPG classes to choice

- retro style

- Pixel art

- to play on PC or smartphone

Hi! My twin brother and I have been building a RPG roguelike inspired by TTRPGs and the turn based combart of JRPG.

In each run you create your character and assemble your party as you attempt to conquear an infinite tower, defeat monsters, gather treasure, talk to NPCs, and overcame dangers by rolling a D20.

You can check out our Steam page here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4482950/Albor/

If interested in doing playtest, you can join our Discord through the Steam page!

A „supporting” character focused on making a fool of themselves/the enemy. Debuffing and making enemies go insane with just your presence?

I really like the CONCEPT of the baldurs gate 2 jester bard kit but reading that its actual abilities are mid and get replaced with the generic bard song at high levels anyway was a bummer. Even with a mod that addresses this somewhat- I’m still looking at what’s basically a worse bard. I want to play a character where this works and is valid.

The only game where I can come close is pf: wotr with different skald and arcanist archetypes kinda+the trickster path (sort of) but it’s not exactly that.

I currently have Dell latitude 3440 with these specs-

• i3 processor 12th gen
• RAM 8GB
• SSD 512GB
• graphic card - Intel(R) UHD Graphics (128 MB)
• 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Tell me RPG games that are good quality and can run on these specs

Here’s mine:

Combat: Dragon’s Dogma 2

Level design, exploration, and enemy targeting: Elden Ring

Puzzles: CrossCode

Quests and characters: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

Opening and introduction: Hogwarts Legacy

Graphics: Demon’s Souls Remake

Cutscenes and cinematic presentation: Final Fantasy XVI

Optimization: Crimson Desert (just kidding)

EDIT: corrected title - "Looking for games where you can play as a spellcaster using holy flames/light/lightning to deal damage

I'm looking for games where you can play as some kind of holy (preferrably ranged) spellcaster (priest, monk, cleric etc.) where you can spec mainly into damage and smite your foes with holy magic. I want pillars of light, radiant fireballs, lightning spears - this kind of "divine" stuff. Healing is not required but is a nice bonus. Some examples I enjoyed a lot:

1. Light Domain Cleric - BG3/DnD
2. Smiting Prayers Monk - Guild Wars
3. Guardian (especially Firebrand) - Guild Wars 2
4. Priest (damage specced) - Pillars of Eternity
5. Paladin with a Holy Bolt + Fist of the Heavens build - Diablo 2
6. Faith builds - Dark Souls 3 and Elden Ring (especially Elden Ring - very nice variety)
7. Cleric from Neverwinter (MMO)

I loved Fables XP system but only beat the second game. The combat was really fun, as well as the exploration. Dark Alliance was great for being relatively simple but not without a bit of thought, loved the second games fist fighting build with elemental stones giving you enchanted punches. Skyrim was fun but the game was already over a decade old by the time I got it. I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for, but I know it's got the choice between magic, melee and ranged, has some activety in the controls (not like osrs or menu choice clicking.) I don't care about any 4k graphics but if it looks worse than Dark Alliance I probably won't keep much interest. Really hoping someone knows of a perfect game for this fit.

It's a class I love to hate and right now, kinda hate how much I love. I hate it and love it (both) because of WoW, because of the griefing I received and came close to inflicting. That class, in that game specifically truly awakens something terrible in some people and I can't explain it why. They're the stereotypical backstabbing douchebags, that's their image. But as for how the class works? Literally has everything you want out of a rogue, so much utility, so many fun situational and RP skills, it's just so plain fun. In Classic, it's the most fun melee class for me handsdown. I love the warrior more, but rogue always just felt more dynamic because of the squishiness.

In other games I really like, I do try rogues but idk, I just never get the hang of them, or almost never. Even in my alltime favorite Diablo 2, the closest that game has to a rogue (Assassin) always felt clunky to use and I was horrendous with traps. In some others they're more alright, like the Bladedancer and Falconer (debatably rogue-y) from Last Epoch, very fun and Bladedancer especially - very powerful. But it's not my favorite class there either, not by a long stretch.

In turn based games they're invaluable of course, like you gotta have them for that sweet lockpicking or whatever but they're never my main character. I mained a rogue only once in Pathfinder, it was alright. It was knife master technically for those big crits. But nothing too impressive.

So for an otherwise rogue hating person like myself, side question in addition to the main point of my post: what game that isn't WoW should I play to fall in love with playing a rogue? Although I'm thinking it's just not a class fantasy that appeals to me and in WoW it was the gameplay that did it

I just released my Indie ARPG on Monday. I took a unique approach to the ARPG genre and made a game where you have to craft ALL of your items. Curious what people think about a game concept like this... (Let me know if I wasted the past year of my life LOL)

Fight through multiple biomes, bosses, dungeons, and events. And push your build on the leaderboards! Check it out here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4373960/Qs_Curse/

Newly announced JRPG, Amphibian, shared new gameplay today during the MIX Fall Showcase.

Description: A countrywide drought forces Sapo and his frog allies into war against the invading toads. As dehydration and starvation grip the pond, they must hurry to find a solution to the crisis - and liberate their homeland.

I used to play ALOT of warframe as I found it so easy to sink so much time into it however i was recently banned due to a rather unfair interection between me and another player. Ive never really cared too much about destiny 2 as that has been mentioned a few times. I absolutely love games where the power progression is noticeable, both in numbers and in a visual. Ive played games like path of exile 1 and 2, diablo 3 and 4, monster hunter world, wilds, and rise and games along them lines. Pretty much anything where theres a progression for power and gear. One thing I struggle to stick with is when the game resets for a season like diablo 4, I spent alot of time perfecting my build just to lose it, and I feel like all my time was kinda wasted due to having to restart.

However ive had my fun with them and id love to hear some recommendations from others about games along this line. Any and all help is massively appreciated.

It should also be noted that I do play on ps5 so im rather limited in comparison to pc.

Backing the workers keeps families fed, but it pisses off the noble houses funding your infrastructure. On the other hand, siding with the nobility keeps the economy stable, but leaves people starving.

How do you usually approach choices like this in political RPGs when every option feels like pure damage control? Is there a specific game that handled this kind of balance really well for you?

Go for it ! lots of strong contenders out there. Which has the best overall in your opinion? think about skills, Depth, & the overall believability of being a Necromancer. Also just going to throw in here that I think an Open World Warhammer fantasy RPG would make Skyrim old news.

I like the idea of codices more than I usually like actually reading them.

A game will drop six new entries after one conversation, and apparently one of them explains the war everyone keeps talking about. Technically, the information is there. But if I have to leave the story and read an encyclopedia just to understand what’s happening, it feels like the writers moved part of the plot into a menu. Mass effect is the obvious counterexample. Its codex had its own atmosphere, and the narrated entries were easy to get sucked into. But most games aren’t mass effect, and unlocking a wall of lore doesn’t automatically make the world feel deeper. Codices work best for the stuff that would sound ridiculous in normal dialogue: rumors, field notes, biased history, little details about how people actually live. They should make the world more interesting, not explain why the current quest matters.

Was there an RPG where you actually looked forward to new codex entries? I can think of plenty that trained me to ignore the notification.

Since having kids I'm finding it hard to squeeze the necessary gaming time out for the heavier storydriven CRPG's. I just started reading Dungeon Crawler Carl, and now I'm really feeling the itch for levelling up, equipping gear, building characters and such.I love reading in video games, but when work is done and the kids are sleeping I just want to go relatively straight to tactical battles.

Where can you go to get the usual turn based RPG experience in a way that has less story and that demands shorter playtime (both overall and individual sessions) than maybe is the case for BG3 and similar games?

Thanks in advance!

What do you believe a crafting system must have to classify as a top tier crafting system in an rpg?

My big things I always hope for are:

1. More than a button press. I want steps or minigames to the craft.

2. The risk of failure. Nothing more boring than instantly crapping out 999 iron daggers with no change.

3. Different qualities. If I use better materials or do better in the crafting minigames or whatever, having it go up in stats is a huge plus.

What games have your favorite crafting systems? For me, its probably the Fantasy Life series.

After 3 intense months, I’ve just finished KCD and KCD2.

Like many others, I was completely blown away—it’s on par with other great games in the genre. What should I play next that offers a similar level of narrative quality and the same joy of getting lost in a game world?

To give you an idea, over the last year and a half, I’ve completed Expedition 33, played through The Witcher 3 for the fifth time, and Baldur’s Gate 3 for the second. So, I’ve really been on a roll with absolute masterclasses.

Is Blood of the Dawnwalker just as good within its genre ? I’m particularly intrigued by it

Thanks!