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Return to Nangrim
This is a dark first-person fantasy adventure with survival and RPG elements embedded in
an epic dwarven lore.
Here you will go on an adventure and unveil the mysteries and legends about Stonebeards,
the once glorious and powerful dwarven family.
Explore epic locations and unveil their secrets.
Collect, combine and craft items, and interact with the environment to progress.
In Return to Nangrim your torch is essential: it is not only a flame to light your way but
also your primary weapon of defense; keep it close when the darkness closes in, because
you know, the enemy of darkness is light.
Just like the enemy of virginity is alcohol of any kind.
Then you will have to decide - hammer or axe?
Both are unmerciful tools against the evil forces, one chops and another... flattens
I guess.
You will have to forge and upgrade them to unlock full potential and flatten zombies
like a combat god.
hell yeaaa
Oh yeah, did I just forget to mention zombies?
Well, here are tons of them.
Your whole mountain is infested.
Game will also feature procedural elements that will guarantee a different gaming experience
for every player.
Stormrite
This is an open-world Action-RPG set in the dark, fantasy-medieval kingdom of Redreach.
You will play the role of a young squire, exploring a world full of chaos.
You will be able to become an expert assassin, learn the arts of dark magic, or lead your
armies into large-scale war against those who put pineapple in their potato salad.
Blasphemy!
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Game has multiple endings to all questlines and a rich character tree to decide how you
interact with the environment and its inhabitants.
So long story short - there was a powerful evil dude who did evil things and then he
disappeared.
Just like that.
For years scientists of Redreach attempted to gain some insight into where this being's
immense power came from - These studies led to the discovery of the Stormrites, a series
of powerful scrolls that, in the wrong hands, could lead to the end of all life as we know
it.
So, if you were sceptical about this game’s similarity to Skyrim, there you go - they
literally ripped off the actual elder scrolls in this game, just gave them another name
Avowed
One of the more known titles in this list, but it is a bit concerning that we haven’t
heard anything new about it in several months.
Not like Obsidian stopped the creation of the game or something, oh no, the game will
happen without a doubt, but it seems that the release date will be more likely in 2023
rather than in 2022.
Also, if you are excited about this first person gameplay and graphics I have to let
you down - it’s all CGI, not the engine of a game.
Sadly.
But if this is the inspiration for the real deal - I’m all ears.
And eyes.
And pp.
So Avowed will be the first-person RPG set in the fantasy world of Eora, which is the
world of Pillars of Eternity created by the same company.
They have the lore, they have already released games like Fallout New Vegas and The Outer
Worlds, so the experience creators wield in this development is huge.
The question is - will they create a massive RPG like Skyrim or will it be a smaller version
of the game, like, you know, The Outer Worlds was not as big as Fallout 4 for example.
So it was a hit, but it will never be as legendary.
And we need legends.
It’s been a while.
Gothic 1 Remake
For those of you who are old enough and have played Gothic 1 when it was released in 2001,
this may be one of the most awaited games in this list.
Gothic was and still is one of the first trailblazers of the 3D open world RPG genre.
Just imagine that the famous Elder Scrolls Morrowind was released one year after the
initial Gothic release.
So here you will return to the mining colony and rediscover its secrets and challenges.
You will play as the Nameless Hero and manage the fate of a lifetime convicted prisoner
who must survive in a world of wild animals, creatures and convicts of dangerous reputation.
If you own at least one Gothic game or at least one other game made by the Pyranha Bytes
developer, you will find a playable demo version of this remake in your Steam library.
With it you can experience a 2 hour long introduction to The Colony.
Or more like 2 hour long torture, because this demo is really bad.
For example it seems like cutscenes litter this game every 30 seconds.
That is really bad, because I wanted to play the game, not to watch it.
That’s not the worst part
Yeah, sadly not.
It has a terrible combat system, unskippable dialogues, invisible walls, a stamina bar,
terrible camera position and several thousands of other more or less terrible decisions.
So in my opinion if you want this game to be at least 6 vodkas out of 10 after the release,
you must probably restart all the development from scratch, otherwise Gothic remake will
be a massive flop.
Trail of Ayash
It is an open world game focused on the indigenous people of America, their struggles and their
stories in the Pre-Columbian era.
You will embark on an adventure in a land dominated by myths and legends.
Here tribes engage in diplomacy, expansion and war.
That alone can make for a compelling gaming experience, but there is something more.
Something much darker that lurks in the forests and wilderness.
In the corner of your eye you can see that you are not alone in these woods.
Here live monsters from the creepiest legends you have never heard.
So to survive alongside your fellow tribals, you will have to battle the stuff of nightmares.
Creatures born from the minds of men and spirits that terrify the souls are talked about in
hushed voices around campfires by storytellers and shamans.
Sometimes those stories are just stories and sometimes you wish they were not real, but
they are.
Very real.
You can already try the free demo version on Steam.
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Ardenfall
From all indie titles I have found while making this list, Ardenfall looks the most promising
one.
That is if you can play games with graphics like that, but you know the more I look at
it the more I like it.
Ardenfall is a choice-based RPG with a world of devious politics and ancient cultures.
Here you can join a powerful guild and work your way up from a nobody to a legend just
like in Elder Scrolls games and explore a varied world of interesting monsters and locations.
Here you will explore dungeons, caves and tunnels for loot and secrets, slay interesting
and boring monsters and, as I have mentioned, will join one of the several joinable factions.
And if you are feeling bloodthirsty, know that every NPC in Ardenfall can be killed,
even ones that are a part of quests.
So you can literally break your game if you want.
Knights & Outlaws
This is a story-driven RPG adventure where you take the role of a simple peasant, who
has a chance to change his destiny.
Plant carrots and not potatoes.
And by carrots I mean not carrots.
Every choice brings you closer to becoming a respected & glorious Knight or a despised
& fearsome Outlaw!
Fight for honor and save the innocent or steal from the poor and give everything to the rich.
Or something like that.
Here you will find a challenging combat system where you will have to outsmart your enemy,
find his weak spots and exploit them.
This is especially important when fighting duels with other knights - you can defeat
them honorably or cheat.
You know, by kicking them to their tiny balls.
Because why do you need a sword so big if you’re feeling secure down there huh?
That’s probably why all Japanese anime men, who look like women, have oversized weapons.
Did I just crack the anime secret by pure accident?
Oh my.
So Knights and Outlaws will offer you various equipment, which you can buy or steal.
Interesting character development skills and perks await you as well.
Story is nonlinear - you can solve tasks in multiple ways, facing the consequences of
your decisions.
And I especially like the first person view.
I put some third person ones to this list as well, because they are great games and
have a lot of common traits with Skyrim, but the first person view, at least for me, is
the most important thing the game could have.
Maybe after boobs.
That’s why The Witcher 3 was so great.
The Wayward Realms
This is one of the titles I'm really excited for, because of the developers involved.
It's directed by two guys who were in charge of a team behind the Elder Scrolls Arena and
Dagerfall.
The Wayward Realms is an open-world fantasy RPG where choice, consequence, scope and role-playing
will be experienced in a realistically-scaled world in a new class of game: The Grand RPG.
Not much of actual gameplay is available yet, none to be fair, - but I will show you some
screenshots of it, don’t worry.
Game is set on a group of over one hundred, realistically scaled islands, known collectively
as the Archipelago, where scores of factions vie for influence and power.
Developers say that the world will be way bigger than most other games you can think
of.
Big cities with hundreds or thousands of NPCs, deep, dark, dangerous forests, mountain ranges,
sprawling swamps and marshland and vast oceans brought to life through dynamic procedural
generation.
On your quest for fame and fortune, you will have to venture through strange lands, delve
into foreboding dungeons, and traverse kingdoms full of humans, elves, orks, dwarves and a
few other unusual races.
Crimson Desert
Game looks like Skyrim and Witcher 3 had a fancy baby.
I don’t know if fancy babies exist, but if they do, they look like this and not like
usual babies, you know full shit inside and out.
The action of Crimson Desert revolves in Pywell, a world which was developed using the latest
graphic technologies.
Here you will take on the role of a mercenary named Macduff, who together with his companions
will try to survive in this dangerous land.
This is kinda weird, because the game is an MMORPG but you can also play alone as well.
So, I can only guess that you will play as that Macduff guy in single player and in the
MMO part of the game you can create your own character.
I don’t know.
That is just a wild guess, just logic, I may be wrong, but we can’t all be Mcduff either
right?
That makes no sense.
Imagine if Witcher 3 was an MMO and we were all Geralts just with different haircuts and
beards and pp sizes.
Crimson Desert originally was planned to be released in 2021, but pandemic altered the
plans, so now it will probably show up in 2022.
No guarantees, there is nothing official about it as for now.
The game looks great and if it plays great it can be a real rival to Amazon’s New World
and other upcoming MMO’s.
Starfield
Todd Howard himself has described Starfield as a Skyrim in Space.
And it is no doubt the most anticipated game in this list or I would dare to say, the most
awaited game in the RPG community in general.
Starfield will put you in the role of a new recruit to Constellation, an organization
charged with exploring space around 300 years into our future.
You will start the game by selecting a character background, and further customization to that
past of yours will impact the game’s story in as-of-yet undescribed ways.
You will also have a robot named Vasco who will aid you in your journey as one of many
potential robotic companions.
That instantly reminds me of Star Wars as every jedi has one as well.
And Bethesda Game studios director Ashley Cheng described Starffield as a Han Solo simulator,
so this Star Wars vibe is real here.
And I love Star Wars.
Especially Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
Yeah, for me that movie is the best, I don't really care what other people say, If I did
you probably watched some other dudes channel right now.
So in Starfield you will get lasers, aliens and explorable planets.
The whole game will be twelve times the size of Skyrim.
It's really hard to imagine this scale on a new game and not on something that has been
alive for years and years, you know like World of Warcraft with countless expansions and
so on.
For me it's the game I wait for the most.
But in the past I've said that about Cyberpunk 2077 as well, and I played for 8 hours before
quitting.
So I hope this time the game really will be awesome.
And also I do really hope that we could have our own spaceship that can actually fly instead
of animation of it flying like we saw in The Outer Worlds.
And the last upcoming game like Skyrim is...
Skyrim Remastered Definitive Century edition of Editions.
I have no idea when it will be released, but believe me, it will be.
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