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Dark Messiah was ‘horny, generic, linear, unbalanced’ and may have been forgotten by Arkane, but it’s inspiring a new generation of developers

Arkane Studios celebrated 24 years of business this month with a social media post that commemorated almost all of its games. In the line-up was subterranean RPG Arx Fatalis and extraordinary FPS experiment Deathloop. So was System Shock tribute Prey, as well as all three Victoriana stealth-action games set in the Dishonored universe.  Even this…

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The dev behind my top upcoming RPG is a Hungarian chef who thought ‘if not now, then when?’ and learned coding from scratch to make his dream ‘eurojank’ masterpiece

Sword Hero is the type of game I was put on this Earth to play: A hyper-ambitious, systems-driven RPG set in a bracingly weird fantasy world and, until now, largely made by a single guy. An open world, complex physics interactions, deep character building with multiple viable play styles, and⁠—apologies to stone cold classics like…

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