Game Reviews8.4/10
The Nemesis System Is Still the Best Thing Monolith Ever Built
Monolith's 2014 action game merged Tolkien lore with the Nemesis system, turning orc enemies into a personal revenge story across Mordor.
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Tag: action RPG
Game Reviews8.8/10
Team Ninja’s samurai epic still justifies its reputation for punishing, deliberate combat
Nioh review: Team Ninja's 2017 action RPG in Sengoku-era Japan — Ki pulse, shrines, stances, yokai, and a decade of development. Score: 8.8/10.
Game Reviews8.2/10
Dragon Quest Builders Still Refuses to Be Just a Minecraft Clone
Dragon Quest Builders review: Square Enix's block-building action RPG rebuilds Alefgard with a hammer, not a sword. Why it holds at 8.2/10.
Game Reviews8.9/10
V Rising Turns Sunlight Into a Survival Mechanic, Not Just a Threat
V Rising review: Stunlock's vampire survival game turns sunlight and blood into a class system, with a castle that decays while you sleep. Score: 8.9/10.
Game Reviews9.1/10
Dragon’s Dogma II’s pawns make single-player feel like a party
Dragon's Dogma II review: Capcom's 9.1-scored action RPG builds a fantasy open world around Pawns, choice, and a dragon's voice in the fog.
Game Reviews8.8/10
Dreamscaper turns its hero’s depression into the roguelike’s difficulty curve
Dreamscaper review: a surreal roguelite action RPG that turns lucid dreaming into a weapon against subconscious depression. Score: 8.8/10.
Game Reviews9/10
Supergiant’s debut action RPG still holds up 15 years later
Bastion review: Supergiant's reactive narrator, Cores and Shards, the Ura choice, and why the 2011 action RPG still holds up.
Game Reviews8.6/10
Dark Souls: The Game That Taught Us How to Die
Dark Souls, FromSoftware's 2011 action game, defined a genre with brutal difficulty, bonfire checkpoints, and online play. A look back at what still holds up.
Game Reviews8.9/10
Hyper Light Drifter’s wordless ruin still teaches what games forgot
Hyper Light Drifter, Heart Machine's silent pixel-art action RPG, turns ten — how Alx Preston mixed Zelda with Diablo and what the delay bought.
Game Reviews9.1/10
Mass Effect 3 ends a trilogy the way few games dare: by asking the player to pay for every choice they ever made
Mass Effect 3 review: BioWare's 2012 finale sends Shepard to rally a galaxy against the Reapers, where every choice carries a cost and multiplayer matters.
Game Reviews8.8/10
Monster Hunter Rise Review: Wirebugs, Palamutes, and the Hunt That Learned to Move
Monster Hunter Rise review: Wirebugs, Wyvern Riding and Palamutes make Capcom's hunt faster and more vertical, even if Kamura's story stays thin.
Game Reviews8.6/10
Obsidian’s Space RPG Still Lets You Talk Your Way Past Almost Every Fight
Obsidian's 2019 RPG The Outer Worlds drops you into Halcyon, a colony run by megacorporations. Our review scores it 8.6/10.