Arc the Lad
Arc the Lad is a Role-playing video game series developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation platform. The game revolves around tactical role-playing element and lets the player take on the role of the protagonist who must explore the world to complete a series of quests and earn enough points to progress through the game. The player can explore the world from the isometric perspective and can face off monsters and brutal creatures during the gameplay. As the player advances through the game, it will become difficult to play. The player must fight against corruption and save his world from monsters. The series comprises several installments such as Arc the Lad, Arc the Lad II, Arc the Lad III, Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits, Arc the Lad: End of the Darkness and more. There are a variety of levels in each title and each level needs a completion of certain objectives to progress through the game. With improved story, addictive gameplay, and wonderful visuals, Arc the Lad is the best series of role-playing games to play and enjoy.
#1 King’s Bounty: Dark Side
King’s Bounty: Dark Side mixes the Tactical, Role-playing and Strategy elements developed and published by 1C-Softclub and published by 1C Company for Windows. The game serves as the standalone title in the series of King’s Bounty and features Single-player mode only. It takes place in the fictional world and offers the similar gameplay to previous titles. Unlike previous games, the protagonist belongs to demon, vampire, and etc. factions which are the antagonistic factions. It allows the player to pick up one of three available protagonists such as the Orc Bagyr (a Warrior), the Neoline (belong to Paladin Class), and the Vampire Daert (the Mage). The game offers a chance to the player join dark forces to explore the mysterious places of the world never before navigated by the bounty hunter. After choosing the class, the player needs to explore the environment, fight against enemies, defeat them to earn points and unlock additional items in the game. The player navigates the environments from the isometric perspective, interact with non-player characters and can attack enemies to defeat them. With turn-based combat, and prominent features, King’s Bounty: Dark Side is the wonderful game to play.
#2 Tyranny
Tyranny is a Role-playing and Single-player video game published by Paradox Interactive and developed by Obsidian Entertainment. The plot takes place in the high fantasy world where the evil overlord has dominated world and threatened its inhabitant. You acts as the protagonist named as Fatebinder, who is one of the higher ranked member in the power structure of Kyros. The story revolves around the struggle of the protagonist as he traverse the world to restore the peace after the victory of Kyros, and make decisions while controlling various factions of survivors. You navigates the world from an isometric perspective and the game starts in a board-like gameplay in Conquest Mode that comprises the character creation process. There are different playable characters and each character offers its unique abilities and skills. You need to control the team of survivals and interact with environment to access new areas. Interact with NPCs, and face a massive boss in each area and defeat them to earn points that you can use to unlock additional content and enhance the power of your characters. Tyranny offers core features such as Classic Role-playing Combat, unique Stories, Choices Matter, Original Setting and more.
#3 Torment: Tides of Numenera
Torment: Tides of Numenera is a video game of Role-playing and serves as the spiritual successor to the game Planescape: Torment, released in 1999. The game comes with Single-player mode only and takes place in the fantasy campaign setting called Numenera. According to the story, the world has left in the rough state after the fall of countless civilization. Most of the human lives in the settlements, surrounded by relics. There are different playable classes available such as Wizard, Warrior, Rogue, etc. and the player needs to select one of them to start his quest to rescue the humanity. The game introduces the dialogue tree system and lets the player interact with the environment and non-player characters using dialogue system and explore the environment from the bird-eye view. During the gameplay, the player participates in multiple battles to fight enemies and can slay them using a variety of weapons. Personal Narrative, Relayability, new Story, beautiful World, etc. are core features. Try it out, if you love playing RPGs.