GamingBolt explains why Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is so unique:

What Makes Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's Open World Unique

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The strategy RPG Dragonero got a major update:

Major Update: Steam Cloud, Steam Deck Support, and More

Greetings, heroes of Dragonero!

We’re thrilled to announce that a brand-new update for Dragonero – The Rise of Draquir has just gone live! This update is packed with improvements to make your adventure through the Lands of Erondàr smoother, more accessible, and even more engaging. Whether you’re a seasoned adventurer or a newly recruited hero, there’s something here for everyone. Let’s dive into the details!

Steam Cloud Support: Your Save Games, Wherever You Go

With Steam Cloud support now fully implemented, your progress will be safely stored and ready to pick up no matter which device you’re playing on. Whether you’re at home or on the go, your adventures will always be by your side. No dragon left unconquered, no treasure unclaimed!

Optimized for Steam Deck: Erondàr Bliss in Your Hands

Are you one of the lucky warriors battling the forces of Draquir on Steam Deck? Good news! We’ve upgraded the user interface to ensure that navigating the game on Steam Deck feels as natural as wielding a blade. From redesigned menus to more intuitive controls, your portable Dragonero experience has never been better.

Enhanced Game Balance

We’ve listened to your feedback, studied your strategies, and fine-tuned the game’s balance to make every battle even more rewarding. Enemies will pose a fairer challenge, your party’s abilities will shine brighter, and the tactical depth you love will keep you on your toes. It’s time to rethink your tactics!

Pause Menu & Exit Game Option

With this update, we’ve added a pause menu and a dedicated exit game option. Whether you’re pausing to plan your next move or stepping away to regroup in real life, you’ll have the control you need right at your fingertips. Just press "P".

Join the Conversation

Your adventures and feedback inspire us to make Dragonero – The Rise of Draquir the best it can be. Share your thoughts on these updates and let us know what you’d like to see next. Head over to the Community Hub and let’s keep the conversation going!

Thank you for embarking on this journey with us. The Lands of Erondàr are filled with challenges, mysteries, and tales yet to unfold, and we can’t wait to see how your legend grows. So, gear up, strategize, and march onward - Draquir awaits!

Until next time, adventurers…

The Dragonero Development Team

Couchpotato spotted a Fantasian Neo Dimension Review on RPGamer:

Fantasian Neo Dimension Review

A Tale of Two Halves

Who says old hands can’t be taught new tricks?  The Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, and his team at Mistwalker, took a lot of creative gameplay ideas and mixed it with a traditional RPG story formula to create Fantasian.  What was originally released on the Apple Arcade in two parts received some sprucing up with Square Enix coming on board to release it as Fantasian Neo Dimension on PC and consoles.  There is a decided shift from a light-hearted adventure to a grueling difficulty spike against a lot of bosses in the second half that takes some adjusting to, but the great gameplay and stunning presentation shine throughout.

Fantasian begins as Leo wakes up in a mechanical world with no idea of who he is or how he got there.  While fleeing a giant robot, he uses a magical device and, poof, appears in a frontier town.  Leo’s only memory is of a woman he met in this village, so Leo begins retracing his steps to figure out who he is, meeting up with new and former companions along the way.  What starts as a simple journey of camaraderie and hijinks is derailed by the ominous Vam, a harbringer of chaos that fancies himself a God.  Through this chaos, he is sowing mechteria around the world.  Mechteria is a mechanical spore that spews poison and drains the life of all that are nearby.  When this mechteria starts to invade more of the human realm, it intersects with Leo’s journey of self-discovery, leading to the ragtag group’s quest expanding to saving everything.

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Fantasian Neo Dimension is a tale of two halves.  Its first half feels like an homage to the older parts of the legendary catalogue of its creators.  The second half, meanwhile, feels like that homage got to flex its muscles and pummel players into submission as they endeavor against boss fights until the adventure reaches its conclusion.  Those able to adapt to the shifting changes between halves will find a love letter to turn-based RPGs that could only come from lifelong experts.  The pacing shifts cause a juxtaposition between a restrictive feeling start and thematically minimal end, which just goes to show that even experts can find ways to grow in a given field.  Where passion, creativity, and talent co-exist in such a lovely harmony always means there’s new avenues to explore and this wonderful game is worth undertaking the journey.

Score: 4/5

Couchpotato spotted a game system overview trailer for Atelier Yumia:

Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land - Game System Overview Trailer

Couchpotato spotted a few updates for The Adventurers:

Beta Updates (New - UI, Portraits, Cleric, Dying System, and Character Creator)

Adventurers,

There is now also a new game start option that will be fleshed out with more of the updates soon. However for now this will allow you to customize your starting party as well as customize the first party member's stats based on several questions similar to many old school RPGs.

The previous default template sandbox game starts will still persist but most of the content for update 2 milestone will fall in this category based on your choices. For the other starts they may just randomly appear.

Also, with this update all character portraits have been updated in preparation for the barbershop coming soon. This will provide a lot more customization options going forward along with the ability to easily add more combinations going forward for the game's sake.

The store's page will be updated once all this hits the full live branch next week assuming no major issues.

Also, due to the new introduction of the healer, when a character hits 0 hit points in combat, you now have 3 turns for which to save the member. Healing them or ending combat quickly are multiple ways to save said unlucky member. Based on feedback this may change, but also will likely be a customized option by the end of the milestone if you wish to not use this.

For full patch notes you can take a peek over at:
Patch Notes

Tim talks about deckbuilder RPGs:

Deckbuilder RPGs

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Couchpotato spotted a new trailer for Phantom Blade Zero:

Phantom Blade Zero - Year of the Snake Gameplay Trailer 2025

Couchpotato spotted a new video about Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone (-> Kickstarter):

Kickstarter Success! Switchable first-person and third-person combat in Chernobylite 2.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has been released today - Couchpotato spotted several reviews/previews:

GamingBolt: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PC Review - An Excellent Port

Mortismal Gaming: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - First Impressions (PC Release)

COG: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (PC) Review – A Masterpiece Stumbles to PC

NoisyPixel: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth PC Review – The Definitive Version of a Masterpiece

PressStart: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth PC Review – A Great Improvement

Godisageek: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PC review

Screen Rant: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PC Review: A Crowning Achievement

The action RPG Sword of the Necromancer: Resurrection has been released:

Sword of the Necromancer: Resurrection - Launch Trailer

The strategy RPG Mercenaries Lament: Requiem of the Silver Wolf has been released:

Mercenaries Lament: Requiem of the Silver Wolf Gameplay

Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist has been released - Noisy Pixel reviewed it:

Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist Review - A Stunning Metroidvania Evolution

Mark Darrah talks about Bioware's future:

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Has Shipped. Now What?? #masseffect

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Learn more about the species of Eora:

Lore of Eora - Species | A Pillars of Eternity and Avowed Visual Guide

Eora is the original world created by Obsidian Entertainment for Pillars of Eternity and Avowed. To ease new players into this rich setting—or to provide returning players with a refresher—we present Lore of Eora, a five-part series designed to make exploring its ancient mysteries, vibrant histories, and captivating metaphysical properties accessible for all. Prepare to uncover the secrets of the Living Lands and immerse yourself in the world that awaits.

Lesson 1:

Species The most dominate species in Eora or its people, collectively known as kith. Kith are comprised of five species, each with their own cultures and customs: humans, aumaua, orlans, dwarves, and elves. And within each of these species, rare beings born with exceptional attributes and distinct features are born; these are known as the godlikes. This episode will introduce us to each of these major kith species and give an overview of how they interact with the world of Eora.

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Couchpotato spotted a new trailer for the DLC Darkest Dungeon 2: Inhuman Bondage and an AMA Recap:

Darkest Dungeon II - Inhuman Bondage DLC Launch Trailer

Darkest Dungeon II's second paid DLC, Inhuman Bondage releases on January 27, 2025.

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Mortismal Gaming checked out The First Berserker: Khazan:

Check Out - The First Berserker: Khazan

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The Turn Based Lovers present another indie showcase:

10 Turn-Based RPG To Keep An Eye On – Indie Showcase

Here we are at the very first Indie Showcase of 2025, the feature where I regularly compile all the overviews of new announcements or simply highlight titles recently introduced on the pages of Turn Based Lovers—or just games I’ve tried that left an impression on me, usually in batches of ten.

For this eighth episode, there are plenty of exciting, spicy projects that indie game enthusiasts are sure to enjoy. Without further ado, let’s dive in.

Years of Division
Death Howl
Prisma
SOG: Vietnam
Wayward Shadows
Sentinel Point Heroes
Graphite
Takara Cards
None Shall Intrude
Bellfortis

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Learn more about the combat in Solasta II:

Dev Update #05 - Back to Combat!

Enough about the art, what about the combat encounters?

Welcome adventurers!

Now that we’ve shown you how much our character models have improved as an appetizer, let’s move on to the main course - combat! If there is one thing that people have always agreed on, it’s that Solasta: Crown of the Magister was a fantastic combat simulator. So, does Solasta II share this strength?

Good old Turn-Based Combat
First things first, yes Solasta II will still be Turn-Based. Not a very surprising decision considering we’ve always said that we want playing Solasta to feel similar to playing D&D on Tabletop. Rolling initiative, taking time to make your decisions, playing in turns one by one…

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Not to say that RTwP (Real Time with Pause) doesn’t have its own advantages - for instance it makes combat much faster, which can be a boon when the enemies are much weaker than your party. Buuuut that’s not what Solasta II is going for!

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Gamesindustry reports that Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader sold 1 million copies.

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Noobfeed reviewed Hyper Light Breaker:

Hyper Light Breaker Review

A roguelite game with breathtaking combat, graphics, and open-world explorations.

Hyper Light Breaker is a rogue-lite RPG developed by Heart Machine, a company based in LA. There isn’t much information on the developers except that they previously developed another rogue-lite game, Hyper Light Drifter, which seemed to be the inspiration for Hyper Light Breaker. While Hyper Light Drifter was released on multiple platforms, Hyper Light Breaker has only been released on Steam Early Access.

Since Hyper Light Breaker isn’t a sequel to Hyper Light Drifter, it’s more accurately described as the spiritual successor of the previous game. The gameplay and the artwork share many similarities, which is one of the many connections between the two titles. In addition to the elements introduced by Hyper Light Drifter, Hyper Light Breaker includes an open-world exploration, support for multiplayer, and terrain formed through a generative process. 

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Hyper Light Breaker is a nice blend of fast-paced action and intriguing gameplay concepts. Its wide range of build options and brutal enemies, along with great graphics, keep things interesting.

Score: 3.5/5

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Eurogamer talked with Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Fantasian Neo Dimension:

How Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's past, present and future can be found in Fantasian

"I would like to continue giving birth to something new before I perish."

The release of Fantasian Neo Dimension was something of a full circle moment for Hironobu Sakaguchi. Final Fantasy's creator left Square Enix back in 2003 and founded his own studio, Mistwalker, where he's since continued making RPGs. Fantasian, in 2021, was one such release, but remained exclusive to Apple Arcade until last year's re-release - published by none other than Square Enix.

"It certainly feels very nostalgic, almost as though you're going to a high school reunion of sorts," Sakaguchi tells me over video call. "Having parted ways with Square Enix all that time ago, I think there was, over the years, this distance that was built between us - with the people who I created Final Fantasy with who were still at Square Enix. But, looking at the email interactions that we had over the course of producing Fantasian together, it almost felt that this distance grew smaller, and we reconnected on a certain level."

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The action adventure Eternal Strands will be released on January 28:

Eternal Strands - Official Launch Trailer

Check out the Eternal Strands launch trailer for this third-person action-adventure game to see some of the ways you can fight enemies, like freezing dragon's wings so they crash out of the sky and so much more.
Fight epic, towering creatures while blending magical abilities with an arsenal of powerful weapons to keep the world from crumbling in Eternal Strands. Eternal Strands will be available on Xbox Series X/S, Game Pass, PS5 (PlayStation 5), Epic Games Store, Steam, and PC on January 28, 2025. A demo for Eternal Strands is out on PC today, January 21, 2025.

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The strategy RPG Whispers of the Eyeless will be released into Early Access on January 30:

Whispers of the Eyeless || Early Access Reveal

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Here's the after-launch-roadmap of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Roadmap Trailer

Extend your journey in 15th-century Bohemia with the post launch roadmap for Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. A full year of new content begins this spring, including updates and the Expansion Pass to continue Henry’s story.

Couchpotato spotted a new trailer for the action RPG Wuchang: Fallen Feathers:

Chinese action game Wuchang: Fallen Feathers brand new 8 minutes real machine!!

WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the dark and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty, plagued with warring factions and a mysterious illness spawning monstrous creatures.

The Turn Based Lovers checked out the roguelike Few Nights More:

Rebuild A Vampire Legacy In Simulator RPG Few Nights More – Soon Out Of Early Access

Today, I’m introducing a title with several interesting elements, from its setting to its gameplay mechanics. It’s a game that has been in Early Access for nearly three years and is now gearing up for its much-anticipated full release. It’s called Few Nights More, developed by Aeterna Ludi, the same team behind None Shall Pass, which I introduced last week.

Published by GrabTheGames, Few Nights More is a roguelite turn-based RPG challenges you to assume the role of a Vampire Lord reclaiming lost territories in a dark, expansive universe dominated by humanity. With an emphasis on castle design, tactical combat, and character progression, this title invites players to shape their destiny through careful planning and bold decisions.

The game introduces a unique combination of castle management and roguelite mechanics. You are tasked with constructing and fortifying your stronghold by adding rooms, traps, and minions, all while enhancing its strength with decorative buffs. Each night culminates in a defensive battle where your decisions are put to the test. Combat is turn-based, requiring you to outmaneuver hunters, veterans, and bosses using a mix of skills, perks, and trinkets gathered throughout your journey.

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Noobfeed reviewed the tactical RPG Glorious Companions:

Glorious Companions Review

A game of lost potential and many questionable choices

2024 has been a good year for strategy games and even a good one for turn-based strategy games. A wide array of games saw release, with some being bad and others far surpassing expectations. Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader saw a new DLC that was a welcome addition to a complete and fun game. Among other scenes, The Thaumaturge was a great game that found many fans.

Amid all of this, we saw the surprise release of Glorious Companions on December 28, 2024. Developed and published by Ancient Forge, Glorious Companions is a turn-based RPG and Strategy game that lets you command a mercenary company as you travel the vast world of Tescara. The game harkens back to the elements of old turn-based RPGs with mechanics, movement, and gameplay reminiscent of tabletop games.

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Overall, Glorious Companions is a game with many nice concepts but very poor executions. The genre struggles a lot, and among its many failures, Glorious Companions may just end up being one of them. It is neither big nor richly made. Its concepts are greater than their actual execution, and the overall content lacks any depth whatsoever. It needs a lot of polish and work to make it at least a playable mess. 

Right now, Glorious Companions suffers from a litany of bugs, long load times, and an array of poor game design choices and gameplay mechanics, but it still possesses potential for its ideas and open-world concept. It also has a good premise and storyline, and the overall mercenary system stands out as unique. It definitely has room to get better, and hopefully, it does.

Score: 60/100

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Couchpotato spotted a new patch for New Arc Line:

New Arc Line | New Bugfixing Update is Live!

Greetings, Magicians and Technologists!

Our work on the game is progressing steadily and we are working on setting up regular "progress reports" to keep you in the loop about what the dev team has achieved and showing you some highlights of what's coming to the world of New Arc Line.

However, in the meantime, we have finished another patch with a lot of bugfixes - addressing many issues with sounds, cinematics/dialogues, and most importantly, quest progression, including several instances where objectives could become impossible to complete. We have also managed to better optimise the Harbor Slums area - please let us know if you notice an improvement in performance! The full Change Log can be found below.

Updates like this and continuous improvements to the game would not be possible without your feedback, which allows us to make the game the best it can be for you. That is exactly the reason why we went with the Early Access development mode in the first place; please keep sending us your bug reports, suggestions, ideas and criticism. You can do so here on Steam in the Discussions, but the best way is to join the New Arc Line Discord server, where you can chat with other fans as well as the devs!

Full Change Log:

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Mortismal Gaming reviewed Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade:

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade - Review After 100%

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The Metroidvania Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist will be released on January 23:

ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist Final Trailer

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Fextralife checked out the AI Limit demo:

AI Limit Gameplay Impressions - Demo Review & Thoughts

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Tim talks about world building in games for beginners:

A World Building Tip

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Polygon reports that Baldur's Gate 3 won the Hugo Award - the premier award for narrative excellence in sci-fiction and fantasy media.

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The Outerhaven checked out The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II:

The Legend Of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak 2 The Final Hands-Off Preview

I was able to play Trails Through Daybreak 2 and was invited to a preview event showcasing the game prior, but we got a lot of meat in a brand new preview event for the game and it was stellar. Let us dig in!

Recapping What We Already Know
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak 2 takes place three months after the events of the first game. Elaine knocks on Van’s door as she wants his help finding more information about the crimson Grendel.

At the same time, Swin and Nadia (From Trails Into Reverie) have made their way to Calvard looking for a mystery person. As they follow the clues to each of their mysteries, Elaine and Van, meet up with Swin and Nadia. Throughout the game, the full Arkride Solutions team will become available to help with these mysteries alongside some new party members.

The Märchen Garten
The Märchen Garten is a brand-new area to Trails Through Daybreak 2 and it is reminiscent of the Reverie corridor of Trails Into Reverie. While in this brand-new area, you can go through multi-floor dungeons with any playable characters in your party. There is also a ton of things you can do in the Märchen Garten.

You obtain equipment, costumes, items, and more with the mystic cube. As you are going through the dungeons in the Märchen Garten, you get shard tokens. You can use these shard tokens to break down the mystic cubes. If it is a high-rarity item inside the cube, the color of the cube turns into a rainbow. In the mystic cube instead of it being an item for a costume, it is a data core. If you get an allotted amount of the same data core, you can trade those cores in for that item it is a data core for. That is one difference between the unsealing pedestal in Reverie and the Mystic Cube here.

A brand new mechanic in the series is enhancing Crafts. In earlier games, you mainly enhanced crafts by leveling up or reaching a story milestone. This time you can enhance crafts by collecting skill stones and converting them to craft stones. These craft stones are unique to individual party members. You can break down craft stones back into skill stones in case you want to convert them into another party member.

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Gamingbolt compares Kingdom Come: Deliverance I and II and claims that it could be a niche hit like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: 

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1 vs. 2 – What’s New?

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Could be 2025’s Stalker 2 (And Why That Excites Us)

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The Diablo 4 - Season of Witchcraft starts on January 22. Wccftech lists some of the new features:

Diablo IV Season of Witchcraft Adds the Armory, Witchy Powers, and a New Storyline on the Tree of Whispers

Yesterday, Blizzard hosted a developer live stream to reveal many new details about Diablo IV Season of Witchcraft, scheduled to go live on public servers on January 21 at 10 AM Pacific Time. Arguably, the biggest addition is the long-awaited Armory feature, which allows players to seamlessly change from different saved builds when they are in towns. The Armory is character-bound rather than account-bound, and each character can save up to five different loadouts. On the Armory screen, players will see right away a specific build's Equipment, Skills, selected Paragon Nodes and Glyphs. Notably, switching between loadout slots with different Paragon loadouts is free. If an item saved in the player's Armory loadout is no longer available because it has been sold, traded, or salvaged, an icon will indicate the item is missing in the loadout preview.

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The tactical RPG Those Who Rule will be released on January 27:

Release Date Announcement - January 27, 2025

Hey everyone!

Getting a little emotional, last one of these updates I'm going to do before the game releases. The first update I did was on February 12, 2022, almost 3 years ago, and here we are now, announcing the release date of January 27, 2025. It's a surreal feeling, and I want to thank each and every one of you who have followed the development of this game.

I've been heads down on the remaining chapters, and I can finally say that we have finished the entire game, with 21 chapters in total (Prologue up to chapter 20). I don't want to spoil all the levels, but I'll show a sneak peak into a later chapter:

I had some extra time to get in the most popular requests, like fixed growths option, a non-permadeath option, difficulty options (planning a "brutal" difficulty after release), persistent blood effects (can be seen in the gif above), etc.

I've also added in the remaining weapons, items, and refinements into the game, bringing the total amount of abilities you have to customize your units with to well over 100.

These final 2 weeks will be spent play-testing, and adding in the final story scenes/supports, but trying to make minimal code changes to have the game be as stable as possible for release.

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Coridden features a co-op mode:

How to convince your friend to play Coridden with you

A short guide

Greetings, Shifters!

If you were to tell a friend about Coridden, what would you say?
Some of the most remarkable features would surely include:

• Riding on each other
• Swimming
• Petting a Droke

But jokes aside, what are the key elements that make Coridden… Coridden?

Shapeshifting
The ability to switch freely between your human and beast forms and use each form's strengths and skills when needed.

 Action-packed Combat
There is a lot of combat action where both your skill and gear are vital.

The RPG elements
As you level up, you can build up your human and monster forms with new gear, attributes, as well as active and passive skills.

Full co-op campaign
Up to four people can play together in drop-in/drop-out co-op gameplay. Play through the whole story campaign together and take on various side-quests on your journey!

Exploration
Visit dangerous caves and old structures to get a chance to find some exciting loot.

Coridden’s world is in a sort of post-apocalyptic scenario where nature and creatures dominate, but humans still have access to highly advanced technology they do not fully understand, similar to the feel of the world in Horizon Zero Dawn.

We wanted Coridden to bring back similar vibe and fun as old-school co-op RPGs, such as the Diablo games, BG: Dark Alliance, Champions of Norrath but also those that engrossed us in their engaging narrative and side quest-hunting such as Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn.

Coridden comes out on 29 January, so GET READY!

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RPGFan presents some upcoming RPGs:

RPGs Coming This Week, 1/19/25

In this edition of RPGs Coming This Week, our slate is populated by all manner of rereleases. From the latest high-profile PC port to a remake of an under-the-radar indie title, the industry continues churning out the good stuff, even if most of it isn’t new new. So, join me as we inspect the latest and greatest RPGs!

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Creativebloq reports that Citizen Sleeper 2 was created without classic coding:

"Game development is more accessible than ever": how Citizen Sleeper 2 was created without coding

Illustrator turned indie dev, Gareth Damian Martin's new game is built entirely with visual scripting.

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is the upcoming sequel to the hit indie game from 2022; that first game reached more than a million players. But what fans of the two games might not realise is that the solo indie developer behind the games, Gareth Damian Martin, has barely written a line of code for either of them.

Gareth’s background is in illustration and writing, but messing around with Twine - a text-based game development software - as a way to write experimental fiction led to them creating In Other Waters, a 2020 game all about analysing the flora and fauna of alien seas. “I had the idea while I was on holiday in Greece, and I was swimming in the sea every day,” Gareth remembers.

Gareth had little programming or animation experience, so instead they concentrated on their strengths. “I knew that I could write, and I knew that I could do graphic design, so I was like, ‘Well, what kind of ideas can I do within that space?’ And so a UI game, like In Other Waters, seemed like a really obvious decision.” The form perfectly reflected the content: the artificial intelligence you play as in the game can only experience the ‘real’ world outside through text and interfaces.

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