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Avadon - The Black Fortress, 2011 Spiderweb Software PC, MC, Android Avaliable from Spiderweb directly and Steam. One Man's Worth The continent of Lynaeus sleeps beneath an uneasy peace. The five Kingdoms that make up The Midlands Pact slumber fitfully, brought together by fear of...

I think almost any of the Spiderweb Software/Jeff Vogel games can find their place here. Avadon: The Black Fortress got quite a lot of (deserved) attention/hype when it came out last year and is the most streamlined and accessible for a complete RPG rookie but you could throw anything from the...

I can certainly see a case for looking at Pokemon style games as RPGs. Admittedly I've only played the Blue/Red/Yellow era game but the essence of that is wandering around a map with a group of "characters" under your command, each of whom level up from fighting in turn-based battles and can...

1) Song of Ice and Fire is low fantasy as opposed to high fantasy (which Formerk called cliché and stupid) 2) Despite some great characters, good storylines and creating a generally believable low fantasy alt-medieval world there's plenty of stuff in the series which is stupid... with more...

I've never quite got the fuss about the ending to ME3. Let's remember exactly what series we're talking about here; Mass Effect, a series with a history of abusing its own canon, plot holes and general poor writing (at least on a large scale... some of the individual characters and moments are...

Only in there being a steampunk element. One of the joys of Arcanum's setting was that it "industrialised" what could otherwise be a fairly generic high fantasy setting and through that developed a number of themes. In contrast from the little we've seen so far this looks to be a fairly...