The past few years have felt like an embarrassment of riches when it comes to RPGs, and so expectations were high going into 2025. Thankfully, the last 12 months certainly lived up to such a bar.

Ranking the best Xbox RPGs, I find they all have one thing in common: being outright legendary. I don't say that lightly. I've scoured the console's greatest hits, from modern-day blockbusters to the ...

Usama Mehmood is a Senior Writer at DualShockers with more than five years of experience in the video game industry. He has been writing professionally since 2021 and covering games since 2022, with ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

With the list of nominees for this year’s The Game Awards finally released comes the inevitable frustration and confusion about why one game has been honored or snubbed over another. Among these, the ...

Cat Quest and its sequels, all of which qualify for this list, are gorgeous, whimsical, and perfectly paced little open-world RPGs. Sporting increasingly complex combat the further through the series ...

Defining a role-playing game in 2025 is more complicated than it’s ever been. Pretty much every game has RPG elements these days, so if you squint hard enough, you can make the case for a lot of games ...

Role-playing games are among the most prominent genres in video games, dating back to the medium’s earliest days. They arose from developers who wanted to find ways to play Dungeons & Dragons in other ...