Vast worlds, flashy combat, rich progression, and freedom of choice—here are all the biggest open-world RPGs of 2026 so far.

I went into Final Fantasy Resonance expecting a lazy asset flip. Instead, I found a deeply strategic, meticulously balanced ...

The craft of role-playing games once belonged to a very specific and well-defined genre. Building a character from scratch, assigning stat points, picking up lootable gear, and embarking on epic ...

The role-playing genre has always been about stories, choices, and worlds that immerse the player, sometimes long after the game is turned off. Some RPGs come and go, fading with time and changing ...

Dylan Turck is a PC hardware, software, and gaming reporter who loves writing how-to guides and in-depth features on the latest tech products. When he's not shocking himself by pulling electronics ...

Strategy games cover a wide variety of genres; from fantastic real-time strategy games like StarCraft 2 to the turn-based strategy of games such as XCOM 2, there's a diverse array of experiences on ...

Matthew Mendisana is a journalist and writer with a passion for storytelling and a love for games and movies. That love carried him through college, while not letting his Autistic Spectrum hold him ...

Two decades after Brandon Sanderson introduced readers to the ash-covered world of Scadrial in Mistborn: The Final Empire, they're getting an opportunity to visit and experience it in a very different ...

Anime games are widely enjoyed both by gaming enthusiasts and anime fans. These titles can range from fighters, visual novels, and strategy games to more notable MMOs and narrative-based RPGs.

It's right there from the beginning of the first Fallout game, that big cathode-ray-tube television that runs the opening cutscene. Interplay, and later Bethesda, cultivated an instantly recognizable ...

One of its neat tricks is that it supports co-op playthroughs in its do-whatever-you-want world. “Open-ended gameplay like you’d expect from a Scrolls-like: pick up or steal anything, kill anyone,” ...

Steam users who claim a free RPG before September 14 can keep it forever, but it will not be available after then.