In 1975, a text-based dungeon crawler changed gaming forever by bringing a tabletop role-playing game to a computer system. The decade that followed only further innovated within the genre. This list ...

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 ...

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.

In the past, role-playing games (RPGs) thrived on imagination, storytelling, and immersive experiences. However, this genre of games is undergoing some of the most exciting transformations. They are ...

Minecraft, The Last of Us, and Resident Evil 4 are all among the very best video games released over the last 30 years.

In a way, every RPG is a bit of an adventure. Players will often be given a quest to stop some ancient evil or to go rescue someone. Whether combat is turn-based or in real-time doesn’t matter. That ...