33. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

You are witnessing the last years of the Calradic Empire. A diverse set of factions ancestral to the ones seen in Warband are fighting to rule the lands of Calradia. On whose side are you on? Who will you help take over Calradia?

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is a prequel to the popular action-RPG, Mount & Blade: Warband.  The game takes place 200 years before Warband in a bigger, improved version of the medieval fictional land: Calradia.

Bannerlord brings a variety of new features like massive multiplayer battles where players fight to the death on a large map.

The game also introduces gameplay features such as crafting, dynamically changing seasons and a realistic in-game economy. New siege engines were also added to give you new ways to breach walls in Siege battles.

Lead your army into massive battles.

Developer TaleWords has added fully voiced dialogue, improved quests that have different endings depending on what you do; motion capture technology has been used for character animations as well as facial animations, with much better lip synching. The game of course also looks much better with higher detailed character models. Lots of factions and NPCs that feature improved artificial intelligence fight you and each other to rule the continent of Calradia.

New diplomacy, siege warfare, hundreds of characters charging on screen, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord brings you the role-playing simulation you’ve always wanted.

TaleWorlds claims it will put many new requested features, some that were even mods in Warband, as well as feature much more “up-close and personal medieval combat on a huge scale, bigger, bloodier and more intense than ever before”.

Bannerlord E3 Gameplay

34. Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide

Vermintide is an action online co-op set in the End Times of the Warhammer universe. You play as a heroic band of four adventurous heroes and fight the Skaven, a bunch of angry rats in the city of Ubersreik. Team up with your friends and go out on the dirty streets to exterminate this rat epidemic.

It’s basically a first-person multiplayer shooter developed and published by Fatshark.

Choose from one of five heroes each designed with a diverse set of skills and different playing styles. Earn loot like trinkets and weapons at the end of each level and experience points to unlock weapons and roll the dice to get some new gadgets. Each character gets different loot and playing on the highest difficulty ensures you get lots of more loot.

Off with your head, vermin!

Vermintide features a great melee system with a great mix of classes. There’s lots of replay value and the animations and sounds are great.

Melee combat is beautiful in this game. Grab a Warhammer, an axe or a sword and crush the glowing red eyes of those overwhelming highly detailed vermins. There’s also a bunch of ranged weapons such as bows, guns, magical rods and more you can use to headshot those rats.

The enemies are randomly generated, meaning even if you play the same level a few times, you’ll never know at which spots the Skaven appear at. The game is not about getting the highest amount of kills, it’s a game about teamwork and survival.

Vermintide is a great dark Warhammer co-op game that is sure to rival the many other co-op games on the market.

Vermintide Cinematic Release Trailer

35. For Honor

For Honor is a competitive third-person hack and slash set during the medieval period. Immerse yourself into the campaign or play online in the bloody war between The Legion (Knights), The Chosen (Samurai) and The Warborn (Vikings).

Set a thousand years after a cataclysm destroyed their world they now have regained their lost strength and are ready for an all-out war between each other.

Featuring a tactical combat system described as “The Art of Battle” by the developers, you enter a dueling mode with another player which gives you the ability to position your sword the way you want. You can attack in three directions: from above, to the right and to the left.

The game wants you to "feel the weight of the weapon in [your] hand". You can also damage your teammates, so be careful not to hit them.

The epic duels known as "The Art of Battle".

Other features also include different classes that have different abilities and weapons, as well as a variety of customization. You can change the armor and gender of the character.

Competitive multiplayer modes allow up to 8 players split into two different teams. You’ll also have the help of a large amount of AI teammates. Take out a few enemies to level up and gain Feats; perks that allow players to call in a barrage of arrows, a catapult attack, to gain additional points and strengths or to heal themselves.

For Honor looks stunning with all the amazing detail on the knights and beautiful combat gameplay. In development by Ubisoft Montreal, the game looks like it will be a lot of fun to run around the fort and experience the intense one-to-one sword duels.

Will you play as the Knights, or the brave and strong Vikings, or the cunning and swift Samurai? Either way, let’s hope the developers succeed in making a great and polished medieval dueling game, scheduled for release on February 14, 2017.

For Honor Trailer

36. Magic Duels: Origins

Hundreds of cards to choose from to build your deck, summon legendary beasts, throw deadly spells and crush your opponent in these tactical online duels.

Magic Duels: Origins is a free-to-play card game developed by Stainless Games and published by Wizards of the Coast. The game includes a single player mode and an online mode. The single player story mode shows the origin story of five different Planeswalkers: Chandra Nalaar, Jace Beleren, Gideon Jura, Nissa Revane, and Liliana Vess. (More about Planeswalkers here :https://www.quora.com/What-are-Planeswalkers-in-Magic-The-Gathering)

Rules are mostly the same like the card game first released in 1993, Magic: The Gathering. You have a deck of cards that have various lands and spells. What are lands? Well, lands are cards you use to refill mana, the resource used to cast spells.

There are five colors of mana, and some cards require specific colored mana to be able to summon. The game has many kinds of spells, from your regular creatures that are used to attack and defend to one-time effects and sorceries. You play in turns placing land cards, using spells and attacking your foe until one of you completely loses health.

Put your card skills to the test.

You can play the game offline against a computer or jump in to Versus Battle if you want to play against your friend or any random stranger or go for the Two-Headed Giant mode where you can play together as a team with your friend against another team. The last one is probably the most exciting mode in the game.

Are you new to card games and have no idea how to play them at all? Don’t worry, this game is a great place to start your collectible card adventure. Suitable for both casual players and professionals, you’re sure to enjoy the game even if you aren’t sure how everything works yet.

Magic Duels: Origins Gameplay Trailer

37. The Elder Scrolls Legends

Set in planet Nirm, The Elder Scrolls story is focused on a continent full of rich lore and large provinces called Tamriel. The various races and diverse settlers spread across a variety of climates, from head burning deserts to snow-capped peaks.

The Elder Scrolls: Legends is yet another collectible card game that includes cards based on creatures, characters and lore found in the series. There are many gameplay modes and challenges that are easy to understand, but hard to be the best at.

Tailored to all kinds of players, the game features gameplay that’s accessible to new players that want to play quick, and veteran players that want to go in depth with the huge variety of decks and strategies that make each match differ from the last.

Don't let your opponent fool you!

There is a “choose two” deck-building system which gives you the choice to choose from two of the game’s five traits: Strength, Endurance, Agility, Intelligence and Willpower. Making different combinations of traits gives your deck a different, special “class”, lots that you’ll probably recognize if you played The Elder Scrolls games.

Choosing the right avatar will help you increase card collection towards the theme of the avatar, other than that it has no impact on what kind of cards you can use. Card sets are shown by the ten races of Tamriel. If you play as, say, a Redguard, you can collect weapon cards and creatures that benefit from weapons faster than if you played a different race.

Even in this card game you’ll be able to make decisions in the campaign that reward you with various cards and impact how the game plays out.  The choices can even alter your approach of the Battle and Arena modes.

Each game in the series always had amazing rich lore, and Legends does not change that. You’re put right into Tamriel with all your favorite races, characters and creatures with a great story through the exciting campaign.

The Elder Scrolls: Legends Gameplay

38. Duelyst

Duelyst is a free-to-play fast-paced tactics game that mixes up the best things about card games and turn-based strategy games to create a fresh, unique blend of gameplay.

Choose from one of six factions to play as on the five-by-nine board, each with their own unique units and play styles: Lyonar, Songhai, Vetruvian, Abyssian, Magmar and Vanar.

Duelyst gives players a long but optional tutorial that gives you various kinds of puzzles to solve, which by completing them rewards you with gold that helps you start off collecting cards and preparing to climb up the ranks. With 45 positions on the board, the amount of ways to solve your problems is endless.

Think ahead, each move is important, one wrong move can cause serious problems.

Something along the lines of Hearthstone’s Arena mode is The Gauntlet, a classic draft style mode in which you choose 30 cards one-by-one from a random set of three. The Gauntlet is a nice mode for those that have limited card pools or are interested in deck building, and it also gives you rewards which helps in collecting cards.

The game has beautiful pixel art that fit the cards really well.

Duelyst provides a huge amount of strategies and play styles for each class, making every match feel different and still fun. With the high amount of replay value this game offers, you are sure to find yourself playing it for a long time uncovering new strategies and ways to use your units.

Duelyst Gameplayer Trailer