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16) System Shock: Enhanced Edition

Get ready to shock your system

System Shock Trailer

System Shock is a cyber-themed RPG. A large corporation called Troptimum Corporation is suspiciously involved with illegal and questionable experiments which arouse the curiosity of our main character. Take control of a hacker with no name, a notorious cyber-ninja that was caught while trying to these access sensitive files concerning ‘Citadel Station’. He’s then caught and brought to Citadel Station, where most of the game takes place. You are put into a coma, induced by an operation with neural implants. You wake to find the whole space-station being hostile and you have to fight through the station.

System Shock (1994) was a first person shooter in a 3D environment. The plot is set inside a large mysterious space station with multiple levels, allowing the players to explore, fight enemies, collect items and solve puzzles. The game is actually non-linear and the player is given a satisfying degree of freedom, employing the use of ‘emergent’ gameplay. (This means that situations in the game’s storyline are more often activated by the player mucking about, pressing buttons and things.)

The Enhanced Edition has a higher resolution option

The gameplay involves the player using the freely movable mouse cursor to shoot their equipped weapons and to interact with objects in-game. There are view and posture controls present on the HUD, allowing the player to choose between: lean left, lean right, take cover, crawl and to navigate the passages. The player can explore the areas and shoot their enemies, whilst looking for items to help them on their way.

The Enhanced Edition of System Shock makes the gameplay a little more user friendly. It adds better movement and a proper mouse-look feature, along with higher resolutions for a crisper experience. System Shock: Enhanced Edition came out in 2015 and was well received. 

System Shock Gameplay

17) System Shock 2

The official System Shock 2 cover

System Shock 2 trailer 

The original System Shock was popular enough to warrant the creation of a sequel, System Shock 2. This is a first person shooter survival-horror game. Similar to its predecessor, it has familiar gameplay elements with new features thrown in.  Their gameplay was designed as a standard First-person shooter, but they added in character customization and a player development system, a breakthrough for  modern day RPGs.

The player can use melee attacks and equip weapons to defeat their enemies. The player can also make use of hacking skills and psionic abilities.


Screenshot of the more refined FPS gameplay

The game’s story takes place aboard a large starship in the year 2114. The player takes control of a soldier that’s attempting to slow down or stop an outbreak of an infection that has plagued the entire ship. You awaken in the beginning of the game  from cryo-sleep with amnesia. You soon realize that you were implanted with an illegal cyber-neural interface. You then explore the ship, finding allies and fighting enemies.

18) Darkest Dungeon

 

Don't drop your torch in Darkest Dungeon

Darkest Dungeon Trailer

We have another Dungeon Crawler here, but it’s completely unlike Exanima.

Darkest Dungeon is a 2D scroller RPG developed by Red Hook Studios. The player can control a group of heroes to explore the eerie dungeons that are located below a gothic mansion that the player’s character lives in. The player inherited the estate from a relative who had unearthed portals to creepy dimensions, which lead to the release of deadly creatures into the world. Your relative then took his own life, leaving the house to you, along with the delightful task of dealing with those monsters in the estate.

The gameplay has an interesting but fun mixture of real-time character movement and turn-based combat. This makes the gameplay feel more fluid, but still keeps it rooted in classical turn-based strategy. 

A screenshot of the Darkest Dungeon gameplay

Darkest Dungeon has a unique feature that makes its gameplay stand out from other RPGs quite interestingly. The player’s characters each have individual stress levels. This means that a character that is extremely stressed can actually become afflicted by it, resulting in the hampering of their performance as a Dungeon Explorer.

Strap in, and prepare for some tough dungeon adventures.

Chop, chop
 

Official gameplay playthrough 

19) Rebel Galaxy

See that ship? Yeah you can blow it up.
 

Official Rebel Galaxy Trailer

This intergalactic space trading and combat simulator is that good dose of intellectual science-fiction adventure you are looking for.
You might be seeing some similarities in this game to No Man’s Sky, however, it’s not quite on that level. The game features space trading and combat in a randomly generated universe, much like the aforementioned No Man’s Sky.

However, it’s not as big and doesn’t play in the same way.

Rebel Galaxy has heavy focus on the space combat, and you’ll notice that throughout most of your gameplay you’re in the middle of raging space battles. Which, by the way, is incredibly satisfying. You have a huge amount of ships to choose from and a ton of weapons and weapon types. This makes for fun customization and the satisfaction of making a beastly war machine. 

Screenshot of an intense space battle

The generated universe gives you the feeling that the universe is large. Even though it’s not as big as the actual universe, it’s still impressive.

There is much freedom when it comes to your activities. There are main quests for you to do but it is very easy to become side-tracked. There are lots of side-missions to do and of course, there’s the whole trading system. A great feature of Rebel Galaxy is that the money system is completely dynamic. Prices can change daily based on the galactic economy and you can have some influence on it with your actions; attacking cargo ships, etc.

Rebel Galaxy Gameplay

20) Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

The Dragonborn looks on

Skyrim Official Trailer

It would impossible to make a top RPG games list and exclude Skyrim. That would be almost sacrilegious. 

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one of the greatest Open-World RPGs ever made. Bethesda’s massive open-world game has earned a special place in gamers’ hearts around the world.

Skyrim starts with the player being taken to their execution, which is interrupted by a dragon attack. This allows you to escape and begin your adventures in Skyrim. There is a main storyline but we all know that Skyrim is one of the most non-linear games to ever play. Whether it’s getting a job as a lumberjack, becoming a werewolf, fighting dragons, joining alliances, buying houses or kicking chickens. 

Skyrim’s combat system is immersive and fun, with the player being able to be pretty much any kind of warrior they want, with an enormous array of weaponry and magic spells. You can even fight with a spell in one hand, and steel in the other, and having a ghost wolf familiar chomping upon your enemies. 

Skyrim also features a detailed character development system and players are able to level up a large variety of skills.

Screenshot of Skyrim with Ultra Graphics settings

Skyrim Ultra Settings Gameplay

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