Ukraine-based developer Dreamate has announced New Arc Line, a new turn-based CRPG for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC sometime in 2024. New Arc Line is described as a “story-rich single-player RPG” set during a gilded age of magic and technology. Players will be able to "invent deadly gadgets or master the arcane

Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Xbox, Nintendo Switch Genre: 90s-style Japanese Role-Playing Game recreated for modern sensibilities Sabotage Studio's game-making mission is to modernize retro games for the current generation while maintaining what makes these experiences special in the first place. The Canadia

During Gamescom Future Games Show 2023, Hooded Horse and Ulisses Spiele announced the tactical RPG Hexxen Hunters for PC, which will launch sometime in 2024. Hexxen Hunters is a tactical RPG set in an alternate history 18th century Europe where you must lead a party of Witch Hunters against the forces of Hell. Mixin

During Nintendo Direct June 2023, Nintendo announced Super Mario RPG, a remake of the 1996 SNES game of the same name, Super Mario RPG Legend Of The Seven Stars. Not much was revealed about the game, but the description only reads: Join Mario, Bowser, Peach, and original characters Mallow and Geno, in an RPG filled

Ysbryd Games and Panstasz have announced that the cosmic horror RPG World Of Horror will exit Early Access and launch for the PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam, GOG, Microsoft Store, and Itch.io on 19 October 2023. It has been delayed from its previously-planned summer 2023 release window. World Of Horror

Neowiz will be releasing a new JRPG called Brown Dust 2 for mobile phones everywhere, and it'll be free-to-play like the company's past works. Clearly a sequel to the last Brown Dust game, Brown Dust 2 is filled with turn-based combat and fantasy world-exploring aplenty. It also comes with a cast of colourful charac

Honkai Star Rail is coming out for the public in a couple of days (26 April). If you love JRPGs but don't want to pay for them, Honkai's free-to-play payment system should be enough to entice you. As with any JRPGs, party setup does matter. There are a lot of characters in Honkai Star Rail who would be great in your

Level 5 games has announced a new JRPG in a form of a detective mystery game set in a virtual world called Deca Police. You play a detective named Harvard. He solves crimes with his group and engages in turn-based combat when apprehending criminals in a digital space. You use your Deca Bracelet to solve puzzles, ded

Sting, a company known for some unique Game Boy Advance games, will be releasing one of its classic titles onto the PC after so many years. They're porting Yggdra Union: We'll Never Fight Alone in Early Access for PC via Steam on 6 February. This version of the game is playable from start to finish, including some e

Born of Bread is a 2.5D adventure RPG game that combines exploration with a combat system that rethinks turn-based encounters. Experience a home-cooked retro take on classic cartoony with charming characters for children and adults alike. Players assume the character of a sentient flour golem with a childlike curios

Platforms: PC (version reviewed), Nintendo Switch Genre: 16-bit RPG tribute Chained Echoes delivers a very familiar experience for anyone who is a fan of JRPGs but yet is able to remain relatively distinct from its sources of inspiration. Based on the 20+ hours I've experienced so far, it's really compelling old-sc

Aniplex and DeskWorks! give a deep dive into their new mobile RPG titled World II World which will be available on both iOS and Android. A couple of days ago, Aniplex announced their joint venture with developers DeskWorks! to make World II World which is slated to be an offline single-player mobile RPG that will ut

There's a bit of the old Valkyrie Profile DNA laced within Square Enix's and developer Soleil's latest action RPG effort. Dubbed Valkyrie Elysium, the action title pits you as a new Valkyrie on the job to sort out affairs and monster problems in Midgard (Norse, not FFVII) while commanding a small group of Einherjars (d

Platform(s): PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC Genre: JRPG, Turn-Based, Cyberpunk, Neon Atlus is almost a household name in gaming at this point, thanks to the success of Persona, but of course, their history of producing great JRPGs stretches longer than some gamers might think (they made their first game

It seems like PQube and KaeruPanda will release dungeon RPG Labyrinth Of Zangetsu for the PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam sometime in Q1 2023 in the west. According to retailers such as VGP and PNP Games, the listings indicate that an English version of the game is coming out. In Japan, Labyrinth Of Zangetsu

Thirsty Suitors will be available for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam when it launches. It will also be available via Xbox Game Pass. A demo is available now for PC via Steam. From Outerloop Games comes Thirsty Suitors, a game about culture, relationships, family pressures, and

Platform: Nintendo Switch Genre: JRPG with multiple protagonists that eventually converge The Japanese role-playing game genre has always prided itself with getting a ragtag bunch of heroes from different walks of life banding with each other to combat a common foe or escalating situation that threatens them and th

To the rsurprise of a lot of people, Atlus announced that Persona 3, Persona 4, and Persona 5 will be coming out on Xbox consoles. The first of them will be Persona 5 Royal on 21st October. The other two games will be out later and will be part of the Xbox Game Pass subscription. For those not in the know, the Pe

Owlcat Games, the folks behind the rich Pathfinder role-playing game series on PC and consoles, will be tackling Games Workshop's futuristic Warhammer series. Owlcat Games' new CRPG is called Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader and it's slated for consoles and PC; no release date yet though. However, there's a Founder's Pac

Chinese developer Xiameng has announced a new game called Codename: Wandering Sword which is a pixel-based RPG set in ancient China. The game's story is about a young man who ends up becoming a wuxia under the Sect Leader of Wudang thanks to politics and backstabbing. Check out the trailer below and see if it loo