The criteria for inclusion of a game in my list is specified in Part I. Continued from Part II.
2018 seems to be a year of spiritual successors. Not exactly sequels – for copyright reasons – but games that draw directly and unashamedly on a single source, rather than the whole corpus of “old-school RPGs”, as was often the case in the previous years. Whether any of those “successors” prove to be of any worth remains to be seen.
The criteria for inclusion of a game in my list is specified in Part I.
All in all, 2018 seems to be an interesting year for RPG and tactic gamers – more so than 2016, and even 2017. What awaits us in the coming months?
I decided to post my yearly overview of released and upcoming RPGs and tactics in English this time. Some explanations before I proceed further.
This list will only included games released, or announced for 2018, and only those games that I consider to be of interest to me. This means it mostly consist of turn-based and/or isometric RPGs and tactics, though sometimes I make exceptions for high-profile games or titles I consider to be interesting because of something else. However, there will be almost no mentions of non-tactical JRPGs, as I’m completely uninterested in the genre and can’t provide any comments on it, as well as most action-RPGs, including AAA titles. Oh, yeah, and the list is text-only, but with links to game’s site, for the sake of brevity.
Projects that I consider to be the most interesting are marked with ☆ sign.
With that in mind, let’s recount what titles have already been released in 2018 at this point.
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