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Text-Based RPG Roadwarden Coming to Nintendo Switch This August

There simply aren’t enough text-based RPGs on the market today. It’s a niche genre, heavily reliant on a player’s patience and enjoyment of reading. As such, they’re often marketed to a small ...

How A Combination Of Old Text Adventures And Wolfenstein 3D Inspired Randy Pitchford To Create Borderlands

You might not think it, but a serious shooter like Wolfenstein 3D was a huge influence, according to Randy Pitchford.

Effulgence RPG is a game made entirely of ASCII art where you convert your enemies' raw parts into new weapons, and if that doesn't convince you to give its demo a look I don't ...

I keep telling our guide writers we should spend upwards of three hours appending absurdly complicated ASCII pictures of game characters to all of our guides, but they just whine ...
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When Fantasy Met Autism: A Quest for Minimal Text in RPGs

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, October 23, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- "Shadow Quest Adventure RPG" is a uniquely crafted mobile game with a distinctly retro feel that ...
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Turn-based RPGs are officially back in fashion, but I want more: It's time for modern developers to take another pass at FF12's gambit system

So, we can well and truly state that turn-based RPGs are back in fashion, right? Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are some of the industry's most successful entries in the genre—the ...