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I love the list man! Thank you. Have you have played Dungeon Siege 1-3 back in the day? If so, based on those games, what would you recommend that’s out or coming other that is the closest to those games??
Videos like this are why you're one of my favorite youtubers! I have to break them up in several watch sessions because life happens, but I look forward to these so much. So far I have wish-listed almost every game, or already had them wish-listed on steam.
Dude. You’re the best. Every time I’ve see a new game coming out a while back and can’t remember it, I come to your channel and find it. This time it was SacriFire.
This year I've found a way to cover more games than ever before, so I also figured I should compile everything into megalists for 'definitive' references. I think I've listed like 3-400 games for 2024 so far. Glad you're finding some new ones.
Thank you so much for your reviews! Your videos are usually the best of the best for the upcoming games. 80% of my Wishlist on Steam is made based on your videos.
Hehe.. a huge list. I'll probably be referencing this list quite a few times. Really nice work Zakh. There is quite few that interests me and I haven't even watched a 4th of list.. lol I stopped at Gothic 1 remake for the day.. and yep.. big fan ;p of the Gothic universe and so I'm really interested in it. Alaloth interests me too but I think I've already heard of it and just forgot about it.. actually I think I forgot about a lot of upcoming games.. and it seems like a lot are coming out right now :D Also big fan of the ronin/Japanese genre in the list.
Thanks Zakh !! Lots of games I haven't heard about. Dragonhold seems pretty fun, followed it on steam. Crimson desert aaah that I'm also cautiously hyped, could be amazing just like Where Winds Meet, I don't know if you've looked more careful at everything the game promises? It's just crazy ! Could be my number one game of 2024 and over but I'll try stop hyping even if people who played it said it was amazing.
I was gonna skip the first person section, not really my cup of tea for RPGs. But Neo Berlin was a pleasant surprise! I wish every dev would give us a toggle option like that, at least in RPGs. Mods aren't always an option/available and I think this is a form of accessibility if anything, more than preference. Very nice list, a lot of new titles to me. Thanks!
Oh no. My steam wishlist just got a lot longer and my freetime will alrady be planed for the next forseeable future. XD Thx for the list. A lot would have flown under my radar.
Crazy video. The amount of games being made is just insane - I wonder how many will even make back their budgets - I would guess 10% at most, probably less. Feels like we might be better served if lot of the people making games did something else, as harsh as it sounds. Anyway, for me most anticipated ones are Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Bloodlines 2, Gothic Remake, Avowed, DA Dreadwolf and Wukong. I am also curious about New Arc Line and Thaumaturge. Neo Berlin and Repo Man looks weirdly good considering I never heard of them. Oh and Felvidek is pure bad assery.
General rule based on my experience, of the games I end up listing, 10% will be actually like a full-on success. 70% will be okay, not failures but they don't blow up. 20% usually fail, those would be games that get cancelled or die on launch. That's not counting all the games I don't list. And this is a good thing because you cannot have diamonds without the rough. You don't get good games unless they're built on a mountain of bad games. When there are no bad games, there's no competition and the genre is dead. You need grassroots for others to grow taller.
@@GamerZakh good point, but I think the issue is also that there are many, many good-to-great games that are also failing commercially these days. Alone in the Dark, Outcast 2 or even listed Thaumaturge come to mind off the top of my head. I feel like there is too many people making games for the amount of people actually buying them (also because huge part of the market is captured by stuff like Fortnite and other GaaSes).
@@8Paul7 Yeah but that's always been the case, it's just we've forgotten all the games that failed in the past. We remember Starcraft, but forget Warbreeds. We remember Impossible Creatures, but forget Dominant Species. So when we think back it seems like it was all good but that good was still built on a mountain of bad.
When you combine different recordings together like this it really highlights how often you do the "some people may not like pixel art" spiel and perhaps you've just seen a lot of people complaining in the past but it feels a little overblown.
Yes but also consider, this is so far the only video where no one is complaining about pixel art, so apparently this is how much I have to reinforce it for them to stop complaining lol.
Swordhaven looks neat - its like the isometric RPG games Pillars of Eternity 1 & 2, Pathfinder, and so forth, that sprung up from the classic Baldur's Gate and Icewind games, only with full 3d graphics and a full 360 camera view. I think I might wishlist that one! 😃
Thank you for this very informative video. I would have liked you to mention if you can play any of these games with friends, as I never game solo. Good job.
Great list, very informative. I can only hope that in time you'll consider doing a 'soulslike' RPG list - and perhaps even include indie RPGsoulslike games like Deathbound, Kristala and my own title - Codex Lost.
You know how difficult to do a title video like this? So much title involve many research and editting. Those who watch this better subscribe and give a like. You own Zakh that much.
Overall this is a great overview of upcoming RPGs. What I don't get though, is why quite some of the segments are outdated when it comes to releases. Example: you are skeptical about Last Epoch because it's been in Early Access for so long and you mention it might release in February 2024. But by the time you released this video (about a week ago), Last Epoch has long since gone out of Early Access and had a successful release. This makes some segments misleading. I get that it takes a long time to craft videos like these, and the world has changed since you started making this video. But it would have helped if you had edited the video and at least added textual information with updates on top of your spoken narrative.
Ah because I'm a solo creator and it takes me many months to make a video like this. I release parts as I complete them then try to update and compile a 'megalist' to cover everything once I finish the full list. I try to edit it with the latest info but it's a LOT. I actually edited and re-recorded many segments but it's easy to miss things. There's a reason no other creator does this, I'm trying to do what is generally impossible unless you have a team. Having said that, I did re-edit the Last Epoch segment and the only problem with it right now is that it's talking about the release in the future tense. I don't express much scepticism about it, I'm just saying it has been in early access for a long time and that it's releasing in February, and it did release in Feb so that's still right. I didn't have time to fix all the tenses throughout the video, but the content for Last Epoch is accurate outside of it went from 20K user reviews to 80K. If you infer a bit, then you'll know Feb was in the past and that it would be like watching an older video later. Basically, change the release date of this video to January and you wouldn't have a problem watching this today. I wish I could do this by January but this video exists like this or not at all. Because to fix every problem would mean I'd not be able to do anything else with my time and the list would be way too late. Rough estimate, it takes about 40-60 work hours to make a single normal list video, meaning this video is between 240-420 work hours. So that's like 3 months of full time work if I was doing literally nothing else and I can tell you, this video won't pay 3 months of rent lol.
dope video. This is a long shot but do you remember a game from late 90's early 2000's, it was a bit like spell force having a main hero/lord and had other creatures to fight with you but you only had 6/8 slots in a formation around said lord/hero and i don't think you built buildings rather you explored towns, caves ect for resources extra monsters. ive been trying to remember from a vague memory for years
Metaphor now has a release date on Steam of October 11th! I would also like to see more turn-based, party based, cRPGs, rather than all these flashy real-time almost shooter adventures! For Unicorn Overlord and other games like it, seem to use the "Me Go - You Go". This is the closest to real battles, as you set your army off, and then hope it goes to plan, and the enemy move where you think they will. The old game "Combat Mission" had this system.
There was an isometic rpg, with bubblehead like view. Forgot the name now but that looks like a great one too. The guy was waiting a bettle like car to pick him in the trailer.
Hey GamerZakh. Have you ever covered the Daggerfall spiritual successor called The Wayward Realms? The Kickstarter only opened up a couple days ago and it's getting close to being fully funded!
How much time does it take to make one of those lists? There's a few games in there that are already released, but I won't hold it against you since it's an awful lot of RPGs to research and list. If I were a game maker releasing a RPG in 2024 and I didn't even make any of your lists, I would feel really bad about my chances of success, lol.
For this kind of list, it's put together over many months, which is why the phrasing is sometimes a bit off when this final version is finally made. I try to fix it with a few run throughs in editing. Generally though I still keep the curation updated and although some of these have already released I'm keeping this as a '2024' list, so even those that have released can stay. But games that released end of 2023 have been removed.
Hmm relaxing city builders? Does it have to be city-building? Because I took a break recently and played through 3 years of Stardew Valley to relax haha. But if you're looking for a builder specifically, I'm not sure how relaxing you're looking for. Maybe Pioneers of Pagonia, Fabledom, or really Manor Lords can be quite relaxing for new city-builders. Sometimes I find going old school is pretty relaxing and I would boot up something like SimCity 2000 or SC4.
@@GamerZakh cheers, maybe I'll give Stardew valley a try, I've never really thought about it. But I think I'll see how Manor Lord's is like. But I guess it doesn't have to be a city builders, it's just what makes me feel happy when I make an efficient city with a good economy. You know emperor Rise of the middle kingdom could also work. Thanks man!
I generally don't cover Kickstarters. I have talked about and promoted Wayward Realms a great deal for years now. If it can't hit it's goal at this point then something is very wrong. Looking at it, it seems it'll hit the goal no problem. Beyond that, they need to be able to stand on their own.
Damn Zakh. That's a long list. As much as I want a proper vampire RPG I have little to no faith VTMB2 will deliver anything of substance let alone hold a candle to the first game.
Surprised this list doesn't have Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance. It was still upcoming when this video dropped and now that I've played it a fair bit it's definitely in the running for GOTY for me. The demon recruitment and huge amount of resulting customization mechanically combined with amazing art design make it a must play.
@@HiddenAdept I don't usually list enhancements of games unless they're something more notable. Shin Megami Tensei V released 3 years ago, so it's not a new or upcoming game. Yeah Vengeance is an enhancement but it's not even to the level of being a remaster, plus I don't even list remasters as upcoming games either unless they're of a very old game. Gothic is here because it's a whole remake from the ground up of a very old game. I also list Age of Mythology in my strategy list because that's a huge rebuild of a very old game. Vengeance is just a sizeable update of a 3 year old game, I wouldn't say that's a whole new upcoming game.
@@GamerZakh Well the original release was Switch exclusive. For people with zero interest in the Nintendo Switch like myself it's basically the original release lol
@@HiddenAdept Haha yeah I get that, though to be fair for all I don't list new platform releases for other games too. Like I don't list the FF7 Remake episodes when they come to PC either.
All I'm really interested in is another Planescape Torment, Disco Elysium, Deus Ex. Story and lore over combat. It's nice being able to resolve problems with violence, and it's nice not playing as a predefined character; that's why I'm not looking for adventure/puzzle games.
for last epoch, you say "it will be released February 2024", wich is obviously passed. Similar things happen with a few other games. Are those games already released then, or were the delayed?
This video was made in parts over the course of months, so sometimes something I already recorded is phrased a bit off. Last Epoch did indeed release in February.
I would love to play an anarcho-RPG for once, where the goal is to bring anarchy into the world instead of order and monarchical rule. For a change... you know...
4:06 I disagree. It used to be that the number of weak titles per good one was much less than now. Digital distribution and platforms like steam make it easier for clumsy developers to publish their “works”. The best games are from the end of 90's and early 00's
You're not disagreeing with anything I said, I never said there are fewer bad games today or that the ratio is the same or better now. I said it wasn't all good in the 90s and before, and that there were a lot of bad games back then and even the good games had problems. I don't think you disagree with that? Because that's how it was. Yeah the ratio is worse now, but also the total amount of good games today is WAY above what it was in the 90s, but we're not disagreeing on anything.
Having lived through the entire history of gaming, I don't see the draw toward pixelated games. Back when they were all there was to play, I daydreamed about the future, when games would start looking better and better. Well, here we are. Yet pixel games seem to have an audience. I suppose it's the novelty factor for those who didn't have to go through the growing pains of gaming.
@@Quazi-Moto It's the opposite. The ones who like neopixel art styles are the ones who lived through the pixel era. Think of it like impressionism paintings, or micromosaics, or pointillism, or crochet. It's just an art style by choice, not a limitation of technology. It's what happened when photography was invented. When everyone could make realistic images, painting had to go stylistic to be anything different. In this age of Unreal Engine 5 where a solo dev in a garage can make a photorealistic game, the realism gets boring. Remember, the pixel art you see today was not possible in the 80s. It's neopixel, basically a new art style.
@@GamerZakh Wait, so you're saying the biggest audience for neopixel is a bunch of old heads like me? I get that it's a choice devs made, and no longer the best they can do with what tech allows -- and good riddance to diagonal lines that look like ugly, wonky staircases, good riddance to building everything with too-large squares. Good thinking on the the devs' part, really; to stylize a game to look so differently from realism, and stand out from the ever-growing crowd. I can give the neopixel games their just respects. For me, it just feels like going backwards when I play one. But yeah, having choices is never a bad thing.
I had the video running in the background, and around @1:08:50 I hear "you're supposed to unite *whales* against the English [...] so it is pretty historical" I had to switch tabs to double check lol. It would be a cool game concept tho, uniting marine life to fight whalers and fishers. Kind of like the novel "the Swarm".
I've seen dozens of games go through the process of "no worries" to "complete disappointment" over the year. Few updates, no real gameplay footage, long periods of silence. For something like that I can't give full confidence to because they aren't showing full confidence.
That Felvidek game... I swear I've seen some of those backgrounds before. Like he took them from other games and applied a horrible Photoshop filter on them.
@@GamerZakh Nah, I'm not sure and I couldn't name any. They're just reminding me of stuff I've seen. If the game gets any attention the internet will probably figure it out if there's anything fishy.
I'm not sure why you seem to imply that Gameplay footage without UI is not actual gameplay footage. It's very easy to remove the UI of a game while you're playing it from the developer's perspective
Because gameplay footage without the UI is not gameplay, it's a machinima. 'In-engine footage' is not gameplay. Sure it's easy to hide the UI, what's difficult is having a functional UI to show off with real gameplay. If they just hid it, why is there no footage of showing it? Also, I've been listing games like this for over a decade. I could not tell you how many games were faking 'gameplay' in their trailers. Often they are just cinematics from the game, sometimes the game is severely underdeveloped and doesn't even have a UI yet, or worst case, literal animations of things that have not been implemented. There are so many trailers today where they are literally just an animation, like animated in video/animation software. Blatant ones even animate a mouse cursor moving around.
@@GamerZakh while it is true that there are plenty of purely cinematic trailers with only animation. There were plenty of examples in this video where the game was show gameplay without UI, and it was definitely actual gameplay 😅 UI is easy to show. The only hard part about it is making it intuitive for the player to understand (that's where UX comes in) which is part of why I imagine game devs tend to leave it out of trailers (but also because UI isn't really appealing from a showcase perspective). Either way, it is very easy to tell when you are looking at real gameplay vs. a cinematic or animation
@@Luis-Torres Yes, I have worked in game design. I have a close friend who is currently a UI/UX professional. And it's not about whether the footage being shown is from actual gameplay or not. It's that without the UI, it's not gameplay in my books. The UI is part of gameplay, hiding it makes a nice cinematic experience, but you're not showing gameplay, you've made a machinima. If a game has shown literally zero full gameplay, I don't owe them the benefit of the doubt. I criticised AoE 4's "gameplay" trailer because it was a cinematic. I criticised Homeworld 3's "gameplay trailer" because it was a machinima. You can have a cinematic trailer AND a gameplay trailer. But look at something like Fable (the upcoming one). Zero gameplay has been shown. Some point to the character throwing the fireball at the bandit, but is that actually from gameplay? Maybe, maybe not, but I don't owe them the benefit.
@@GamerZakh Well we do agree that you shouldn't give a game trailer any credit that doesn't have gameplay. I'm not disagreeing on any of that. I only disagree on what constitutes "gameplay". Gameplay is simply that: gameplay. There are actually some games you can play where you can literally turn off the UI as a player. Does that suddenly not count as gameplay even though a player is actually playing it? I'd be hard pressed to say that it isn't. Gameplay has nothing to do with the GUI (I think at this point we should at least be more clear on the terminology). I don't think a trailer needs to show an in-game HUD to prove that it's gameplay. That's all I'm saying.
@@Luis-Torres If you want to get into specifics, specify the games and trailer footage. Each one is an individual case. I've written dissertations on interactive media, so I could get into it, but a RUclips's comment thread is a bit of an uncomfortable place to have such an in-depth discussion. In this video, I bring up my scepticism in some cases because of context that isn't always communicated. Maybe I don't say it for other games because those have shown additional footage I didn't use. Or maybe I say it because the publisher has faked footage before. Or maybe I see something that is or isn't there that I didn't mention specifically. Unless you specify a part in the video and clarify with me what I mean, then you might not even know what I'm talking about.
My recomended games in this list: PATH OF EXILE 2, TOWERS OF AGHASBA, BLACK MYTH WUKONG. Games that im interested: NO REST FOR THE WICKED, NEW ARC LINE, KINGDOM COME DELIVERANCE 2 Thats it :3 you can watch my comment afterr 2 years and tell me if i was wrong (some games life final fantasy remake and dragon dogma are already done, so im not counting on them.) REGARDS.
There are quite a few visually impressive games here, but I hope that at least some also have good story. Perhaps it's due to my age, but it seems that truly exceptional RPGs are becoming harder to find. Sure some are pretty, their gameplay is often too simplistic or focused on modern day agenda. Add some weak dialogue(or translation problems plaguing modern games) and I am out. Thanks for video tho!
42:00 I dunno when you recorded this video, but as of your video going up, Wuthering Waves is out. It's been out since 22nd of May. Combat feels as slick as it seems, as is the ease of traversing the map. Story is ... forgettable, honestly. It's had some serious performance issues that Kuro is working on fixing on. It's also a gacha game, if that's a major no no for you. That said, now is a good time to start though, because Kuro has been pouring out in-game rewards as apologies for numerous in-game issues big and small.
Thanks for the update and details! I produce this video over many months, impossible for me to get this all together by myself in a reasonable time. I try to fix outdated recordings but sometimes I miss them, which is why phrasing can be a bit off or a little dated. I was fixing things through the end of May yes.
How can you cover Swordhaven without mentioning that its from the developers of Atom RPG? I think that would have been more informative than going on the whole tangent about nostalgia.
Because Atom RPG is not a household name that's just a go-to reference point. It released over half a decade ago and right this second, about 250 people are playing it on Steam: steamcharts.com/app/552620 - It's not like saying 'Fallout' or 'Final Fantasy' which are more ubiquitous references. Plus, mentioning a 6 year old game doesn't mean it's like a game from 20+ years ago, so I'd have to spend as much time explaining Atom RPG just so people know why I'm even mentioning it. On top of that, generally speaking I don't like mentioning that a game is from the same developers for quality or style reference. Developers often change people or styles, so I kind of only mention it when the game is going to be very different from their last game. Just because Atom RPG was good doesn't mean this one will be, so really there's very little use mentioning it.
You mean The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak? That released in 2021? 2023 on Steam. And Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance? That's just an enhanced version of the game that released in 2021. They're both old games.
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I love the list man! Thank you. Have you have played Dungeon Siege 1-3 back in the day? If so, based on those games, what would you recommend that’s out or coming other that is the closest to those games??
I greatly appreciate the grouped and timestamped description !
Thanks! Luckily it's less than 100 games this time so I'm not hitting the timestamp limit.
@@GamerZakh theres a timestamp limit?LOL
@@deenman23 Yeah my simulation megalist had 118 games and I found if you have more than 100 timestamps it doesn't put the dividers on the bar.
@@GamerZakh i cant imagine why this is a thing lol
Wow. So much work gone into this. Very appreciated!
Videos like this are why you're one of my favorite youtubers! I have to break them up in several watch sessions because life happens, but I look forward to these so much. So far I have wish-listed almost every game, or already had them wish-listed on steam.
Thank you, that's really kind of you to say. I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Between my backlog, my wishlist and this list of future games, I need around 3 or 4 lifetimes to play them all.
wtb 48 hour days
3 to 4 hundred thousand
Dude. You’re the best. Every time I’ve see a new game coming out a while back and can’t remember it, I come to your channel and find it. This time it was SacriFire.
Glad I could help! I do try to be as comprehensive as possible.
This must have been the most extensive list I've seen in years. Great for blowing up my Steam wishlist beyond epic proportions.
This year I've found a way to cover more games than ever before, so I also figured I should compile everything into megalists for 'definitive' references. I think I've listed like 3-400 games for 2024 so far. Glad you're finding some new ones.
This video is a PhD research.
This is sick. Make a multiplayer coop games list next
I'm actually working on a coop list right now
@@GamerZakh that's awesome!
Oh snap, it's WILLY MAC!
I truly appreciate your attention to detail, and that you display the title of the game while it is being discussed. Thank you, friend.
Bro, I'm getting in the 30 minute mark, but I already discovered so many games that look awesome. What a great video, thank you!
Glad you found some new ones! It takes me a long time to research all these.
Thank you so much for your reviews! Your videos are usually the best of the best for the upcoming games. 80% of my Wishlist on Steam is made based on your videos.
I'm glad you're finding them useful! I do go through so many games to put this together.
Amazing list as always! So many new and interesting games!
Thank you for your effort!
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you Zakh. I'm a huge lover of first person RPGs. Didn't know about a few of these like Berlin 2087 and Archaelund. I salute ya! :)
Awesome job Zakh great collection of coming RPGs
Thank you!
@@GamerZakh still working through the whole list it is impressively huge!
A truly magnificent compilation, thanks for making it!
Man, you are the BEST I asked for this months ago when you did the cozy games list. Thank you!!!
Your list is amazing !!! Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you very much! Appreciate the list and the time & effort! 😎👍
Hehe.. a huge list. I'll probably be referencing this list quite a few times.
Really nice work Zakh. There is quite few that interests me and I haven't even watched a 4th of list.. lol
I stopped at Gothic 1 remake for the day.. and yep.. big fan ;p of the Gothic universe and so I'm really interested in it.
Alaloth interests me too but I think I've already heard of it and just forgot about it.. actually I think I forgot about a lot of upcoming games..
and it seems like a lot are coming out right now :D
Also big fan of the ronin/Japanese genre in the list.
Thanks Zakh !! Lots of games I haven't heard about.
Dragonhold seems pretty fun, followed it on steam. Crimson desert aaah that I'm also cautiously hyped, could be amazing just like Where Winds Meet, I don't know if you've looked more careful at everything the game promises? It's just crazy ! Could be my number one game of 2024 and over but I'll try stop hyping even if people who played it said it was amazing.
Very interesting! I haven't heard of any of these. I don't browse steam anymore too much garbage. Thanks for covering these!
Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah I go through so many games to pick these out.
Thumbs up only for the timestamps! You put a lot of work in it!
@@thedevolis Thanks! I try my best, glad you found it useful.
I was gonna skip the first person section, not really my cup of tea for RPGs. But Neo Berlin was a pleasant surprise! I wish every dev would give us a toggle option like that, at least in RPGs. Mods aren't always an option/available and I think this is a form of accessibility if anything, more than preference. Very nice list, a lot of new titles to me. Thanks!
Thank you for the list. There are a lot of good titles. Good to see RPGs and tactical games returning.
Oh no. My steam wishlist just got a lot longer and my freetime will alrady be planed for the next forseeable future. XD
Thx for the list. A lot would have flown under my radar.
Sorry for your wallet haha, glad you found some new ones!
Crazy video. The amount of games being made is just insane - I wonder how many will even make back their budgets - I would guess 10% at most, probably less. Feels like we might be better served if lot of the people making games did something else, as harsh as it sounds. Anyway, for me most anticipated ones are Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Bloodlines 2, Gothic Remake, Avowed, DA Dreadwolf and Wukong. I am also curious about New Arc Line and Thaumaturge. Neo Berlin and Repo Man looks weirdly good considering I never heard of them. Oh and Felvidek is pure bad assery.
General rule based on my experience, of the games I end up listing, 10% will be actually like a full-on success. 70% will be okay, not failures but they don't blow up. 20% usually fail, those would be games that get cancelled or die on launch. That's not counting all the games I don't list. And this is a good thing because you cannot have diamonds without the rough. You don't get good games unless they're built on a mountain of bad games. When there are no bad games, there's no competition and the genre is dead. You need grassroots for others to grow taller.
@@GamerZakh good point, but I think the issue is also that there are many, many good-to-great games that are also failing commercially these days. Alone in the Dark, Outcast 2 or even listed Thaumaturge come to mind off the top of my head. I feel like there is too many people making games for the amount of people actually buying them (also because huge part of the market is captured by stuff like Fortnite and other GaaSes).
@@8Paul7 Yeah but that's always been the case, it's just we've forgotten all the games that failed in the past. We remember Starcraft, but forget Warbreeds. We remember Impossible Creatures, but forget Dominant Species. So when we think back it seems like it was all good but that good was still built on a mountain of bad.
When you combine different recordings together like this it really highlights how often you do the "some people may not like pixel art" spiel and perhaps you've just seen a lot of people complaining in the past but it feels a little overblown.
Yes but also consider, this is so far the only video where no one is complaining about pixel art, so apparently this is how much I have to reinforce it for them to stop complaining lol.
Swordhaven looks neat - its like the isometric RPG games Pillars of Eternity 1 & 2, Pathfinder, and so forth, that sprung up from the classic Baldur's Gate and Icewind games, only with full 3d graphics and a full 360 camera view. I think I might wishlist that one! 😃
Very well done video. Got a lot of good info out of this one.
Thank you for the video!
Hmmm...... Will the New Arc Line scratch my Arcanum itch....
This is exactly what I needed, thank you!
Great information, great video, thanks, this is a lot of work.
Wow. A lot of effort here. Greatly appreciated.
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Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Again a great video! Thank you for all the work
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for the list!
Hey glad you enjoyed it!
Oh damn it's another monster.
Appreciate just how much time it must take to make one of these.
Still got the strategy one open in a tab to finish off.
Haha I do like compiling the megalists because it really does show how much I've researched once I put it all together. I'm glad you're enjoying them!
Wow, that's quite the list, Zakh!
What a fantastic compilation. I think I've just added $300 to my steam wishlist
Apologies for your wallet
Thank you for this very informative video. I would have liked you to mention if you can play any of these games with friends, as I never game solo. Good job.
Awesome work! You've got my subscription.
Great list, very informative. I can only hope that in time you'll consider doing a 'soulslike' RPG list - and perhaps even include indie RPGsoulslike games like Deathbound, Kristala and my own title - Codex Lost.
Just a semi-correction - We didn't know about Avowed until after Microsoft bought Obsidian, though Bethesda was certainly bought afterwards.
You know how difficult to do a title video like this? So much title involve many research and editting. Those who watch this better subscribe and give a like. You own Zakh that much.
Thank you! That's really kind of you to say.
I subscribed for it.
I didn't know about neo berlin and repo man, thanks for that...
With so much game info. 200% sub. Ty very much😊
Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it
Overall this is a great overview of upcoming RPGs. What I don't get though, is why quite some of the segments are outdated when it comes to releases. Example: you are skeptical about Last Epoch because it's been in Early Access for so long and you mention it might release in February 2024. But by the time you released this video (about a week ago), Last Epoch has long since gone out of Early Access and had a successful release.
This makes some segments misleading.
I get that it takes a long time to craft videos like these, and the world has changed since you started making this video. But it would have helped if you had edited the video and at least added textual information with updates on top of your spoken narrative.
Ah because I'm a solo creator and it takes me many months to make a video like this. I release parts as I complete them then try to update and compile a 'megalist' to cover everything once I finish the full list. I try to edit it with the latest info but it's a LOT. I actually edited and re-recorded many segments but it's easy to miss things. There's a reason no other creator does this, I'm trying to do what is generally impossible unless you have a team.
Having said that, I did re-edit the Last Epoch segment and the only problem with it right now is that it's talking about the release in the future tense. I don't express much scepticism about it, I'm just saying it has been in early access for a long time and that it's releasing in February, and it did release in Feb so that's still right. I didn't have time to fix all the tenses throughout the video, but the content for Last Epoch is accurate outside of it went from 20K user reviews to 80K. If you infer a bit, then you'll know Feb was in the past and that it would be like watching an older video later.
Basically, change the release date of this video to January and you wouldn't have a problem watching this today. I wish I could do this by January but this video exists like this or not at all. Because to fix every problem would mean I'd not be able to do anything else with my time and the list would be way too late. Rough estimate, it takes about 40-60 work hours to make a single normal list video, meaning this video is between 240-420 work hours. So that's like 3 months of full time work if I was doing literally nothing else and I can tell you, this video won't pay 3 months of rent lol.
Wuthering Waves came out last week. Note; there's no freedom about it in the game apart from it being an open-world gacha game.
dope video. This is a long shot but do you remember a game from late 90's early 2000's, it was a bit like spell force having a main hero/lord and had other creatures to fight with you but you only had 6/8 slots in a formation around said lord/hero and i don't think you built buildings rather you explored towns, caves ect for resources extra monsters. ive been trying to remember from a vague memory for years
The closest I have played for something like that would be Age of Wonders or HoMM.
" i dont want game mechanics to be copyrighted" oh boy did this line age well ... xD
What a time to be alive!
Metaphor now has a release date on Steam of October 11th! I would also like to see more turn-based, party based, cRPGs, rather than all these flashy real-time almost shooter adventures! For Unicorn Overlord and other games like it, seem to use the "Me Go - You Go". This is the closest to real battles, as you set your army off, and then hope it goes to plan, and the enemy move where you think they will. The old game "Combat Mission" had this system.
Great Content!! First time seeing the channel! Commenting for the algorithm!!!
There was an isometic rpg, with bubblehead like view. Forgot the name now but that looks like a great one too. The guy was waiting a bettle like car to pick him in the trailer.
I found! Little Devil Inside!
Great stuff! Kind of funny how so many CRPGs have very similar descriptions. Choices anyone?
Thx, a few hidden gems in this vid.
Glad you found some new ones!
1:31:03 Sadly delay for poe2 beta announced last league launch. Beta will be december 2024, still 2024 so yeah works for the list.
hype for avowed, played poe1 and poe2, can't wait
Drova looks like a cool adventure/action RPG.
That's a lot of games to look forward to, jesus christ.
You should see how many I didn't list.
I find Tainted Grail much more Skyrim-like than Avowed.
What is your fav first person (shooter) RPG game? I have always liked games like Mass Effect, Deus ex, Cyberpunk 2077.
Hey GamerZakh. Have you ever covered the Daggerfall spiritual successor called The Wayward Realms? The Kickstarter only opened up a couple days ago and it's getting close to being fully funded!
I have covered it quite a bit, there's a short mention of it in this video too. I'm very curious about how it'll turn out.
Impressive compilation
Thanks!
How much time does it take to make one of those lists? There's a few games in there that are already released, but I won't hold it against you since it's an awful lot of RPGs to research and list.
If I were a game maker releasing a RPG in 2024 and I didn't even make any of your lists, I would feel really bad about my chances of success, lol.
For this kind of list, it's put together over many months, which is why the phrasing is sometimes a bit off when this final version is finally made. I try to fix it with a few run throughs in editing. Generally though I still keep the curation updated and although some of these have already released I'm keeping this as a '2024' list, so even those that have released can stay. But games that released end of 2023 have been removed.
Best vid EVER.
35:05 Dragonhold team please I don''t wanna ride a Dragon I want to BECOME ONE.
O great Gamerzack. I have recently gone into my exam session and i feel drained. Have you got any good and relaxing city builders to play?
Hmm relaxing city builders? Does it have to be city-building? Because I took a break recently and played through 3 years of Stardew Valley to relax haha. But if you're looking for a builder specifically, I'm not sure how relaxing you're looking for. Maybe Pioneers of Pagonia, Fabledom, or really Manor Lords can be quite relaxing for new city-builders. Sometimes I find going old school is pretty relaxing and I would boot up something like SimCity 2000 or SC4.
@@GamerZakh cheers, maybe I'll give Stardew valley a try, I've never really thought about it. But I think I'll see how Manor Lord's is like. But I guess it doesn't have to be a city builders, it's just what makes me feel happy when I make an efficient city with a good economy. You know emperor Rise of the middle kingdom could also work. Thanks man!
Can't wait to play new arc line I'm a big fan of arcanum
@GamerZakh Wayward realms has a Kickstarter out now. Are you planning on covering it?
I generally don't cover Kickstarters. I have talked about and promoted Wayward Realms a great deal for years now. If it can't hit it's goal at this point then something is very wrong. Looking at it, it seems it'll hit the goal no problem. Beyond that, they need to be able to stand on their own.
Damn Zakh. That's a long list.
As much as I want a proper vampire RPG I have little to no faith VTMB2 will deliver anything of substance let alone hold a candle to the first game.
Surprised this list doesn't have Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance. It was still upcoming when this video dropped and now that I've played it a fair bit it's definitely in the running for GOTY for me. The demon recruitment and huge amount of resulting customization mechanically combined with amazing art design make it a must play.
@@HiddenAdept I don't usually list enhancements of games unless they're something more notable. Shin Megami Tensei V released 3 years ago, so it's not a new or upcoming game. Yeah Vengeance is an enhancement but it's not even to the level of being a remaster, plus I don't even list remasters as upcoming games either unless they're of a very old game. Gothic is here because it's a whole remake from the ground up of a very old game. I also list Age of Mythology in my strategy list because that's a huge rebuild of a very old game. Vengeance is just a sizeable update of a 3 year old game, I wouldn't say that's a whole new upcoming game.
@@GamerZakh Well the original release was Switch exclusive. For people with zero interest in the Nintendo Switch like myself it's basically the original release lol
@@HiddenAdept Haha yeah I get that, though to be fair for all I don't list new platform releases for other games too. Like I don't list the FF7 Remake episodes when they come to PC either.
All I'm really interested in is another Planescape Torment, Disco Elysium, Deus Ex. Story and lore over combat. It's nice being able to resolve problems with violence, and it's nice not playing as a predefined character; that's why I'm not looking for adventure/puzzle games.
@@Welther47 The classic RPG section would be for you then, most of those are trying to do that.
Great video, thanks! Take a like
Your vid is very awesome! Much thanks, such appreciation!
Swordhaven looks pretty awesome, im withdrawing from BG3 still...
Hopefully New Arc Line will be less buggy than Arcanum was.
Crimson Desert resembles BDO, which it is... huh neat!
for last epoch, you say "it will be released February 2024", wich is obviously passed. Similar things happen with a few other games. Are those games already released then, or were the delayed?
This video was made in parts over the course of months, so sometimes something I already recorded is phrased a bit off. Last Epoch did indeed release in February.
@@GamerZakh thanks for the clarification!
Guild Saga looks sweet
I would love to play an anarcho-RPG for once, where the goal is to bring anarchy into the world instead of order and monarchical rule.
For a change... you know...
4:06 I disagree. It used to be that the number of weak titles per good one was much less than now. Digital distribution and platforms like steam make it easier for clumsy developers to publish their “works”. The best games are from the end of 90's and early 00's
You're not disagreeing with anything I said, I never said there are fewer bad games today or that the ratio is the same or better now. I said it wasn't all good in the 90s and before, and that there were a lot of bad games back then and even the good games had problems. I don't think you disagree with that? Because that's how it was. Yeah the ratio is worse now, but also the total amount of good games today is WAY above what it was in the 90s, but we're not disagreeing on anything.
Having lived through the entire history of gaming, I don't see the draw toward pixelated games. Back when they were all there was to play, I daydreamed about the future, when games would start looking better and better.
Well, here we are. Yet pixel games seem to have an audience. I suppose it's the novelty factor for those who didn't have to go through the growing pains of gaming.
@@Quazi-Moto It's the opposite. The ones who like neopixel art styles are the ones who lived through the pixel era.
Think of it like impressionism paintings, or micromosaics, or pointillism, or crochet. It's just an art style by choice, not a limitation of technology.
It's what happened when photography was invented. When everyone could make realistic images, painting had to go stylistic to be anything different. In this age of Unreal Engine 5 where a solo dev in a garage can make a photorealistic game, the realism gets boring.
Remember, the pixel art you see today was not possible in the 80s. It's neopixel, basically a new art style.
@@GamerZakh Wait, so you're saying the biggest audience for neopixel is a bunch of old heads like me?
I get that it's a choice devs made, and no longer the best they can do with what tech allows -- and good riddance to diagonal lines that look like ugly, wonky staircases, good riddance to building everything with too-large squares.
Good thinking on the the devs' part, really; to stylize a game to look so differently from realism, and stand out from the ever-growing crowd.
I can give the neopixel games their just respects. For me, it just feels like going backwards when I play one. But yeah, having choices is never a bad thing.
I had the video running in the background, and around @1:08:50 I hear "you're supposed to unite *whales* against the English [...] so it is pretty historical"
I had to switch tabs to double check lol.
It would be a cool game concept tho, uniting marine life to fight whalers and fishers. Kind of like the novel "the Swarm".
I just want to finish Unicorn Overlord and Eiyuden Chronicles before Refantazio drops lol
Haha keeping up with all the games releasing is a challenge itself
Crimson Desert looks like something PA definitely could pull off. It's very far down in my list for worrisome games
I've seen dozens of games go through the process of "no worries" to "complete disappointment" over the year. Few updates, no real gameplay footage, long periods of silence. For something like that I can't give full confidence to because they aren't showing full confidence.
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That Felvidek game... I swear I've seen some of those backgrounds before. Like he took them from other games and applied a horrible Photoshop filter on them.
If that was actually done it'd be copyright infringement and they can be sued for it, so you should be specific if you're sure of that.
@@GamerZakh Nah, I'm not sure and I couldn't name any. They're just reminding me of stuff I've seen. If the game gets any attention the internet will probably figure it out if there's anything fishy.
@@filipstamate1564 It has gotten over 1200 user reviews on Steam so far and no one has pointed anything like that out, so I'm pretty sure it's safe.
I'm not sure why you seem to imply that Gameplay footage without UI is not actual gameplay footage. It's very easy to remove the UI of a game while you're playing it from the developer's perspective
Because gameplay footage without the UI is not gameplay, it's a machinima. 'In-engine footage' is not gameplay. Sure it's easy to hide the UI, what's difficult is having a functional UI to show off with real gameplay. If they just hid it, why is there no footage of showing it? Also, I've been listing games like this for over a decade. I could not tell you how many games were faking 'gameplay' in their trailers. Often they are just cinematics from the game, sometimes the game is severely underdeveloped and doesn't even have a UI yet, or worst case, literal animations of things that have not been implemented. There are so many trailers today where they are literally just an animation, like animated in video/animation software. Blatant ones even animate a mouse cursor moving around.
@@GamerZakh while it is true that there are plenty of purely cinematic trailers with only animation. There were plenty of examples in this video where the game was show gameplay without UI, and it was definitely actual gameplay 😅
UI is easy to show. The only hard part about it is making it intuitive for the player to understand (that's where UX comes in) which is part of why I imagine game devs tend to leave it out of trailers (but also because UI isn't really appealing from a showcase perspective).
Either way, it is very easy to tell when you are looking at real gameplay vs. a cinematic or animation
@@Luis-Torres Yes, I have worked in game design. I have a close friend who is currently a UI/UX professional. And it's not about whether the footage being shown is from actual gameplay or not. It's that without the UI, it's not gameplay in my books. The UI is part of gameplay, hiding it makes a nice cinematic experience, but you're not showing gameplay, you've made a machinima.
If a game has shown literally zero full gameplay, I don't owe them the benefit of the doubt. I criticised AoE 4's "gameplay" trailer because it was a cinematic. I criticised Homeworld 3's "gameplay trailer" because it was a machinima.
You can have a cinematic trailer AND a gameplay trailer. But look at something like Fable (the upcoming one). Zero gameplay has been shown. Some point to the character throwing the fireball at the bandit, but is that actually from gameplay? Maybe, maybe not, but I don't owe them the benefit.
@@GamerZakh Well we do agree that you shouldn't give a game trailer any credit that doesn't have gameplay. I'm not disagreeing on any of that. I only disagree on what constitutes "gameplay".
Gameplay is simply that: gameplay. There are actually some games you can play where you can literally turn off the UI as a player. Does that suddenly not count as gameplay even though a player is actually playing it? I'd be hard pressed to say that it isn't.
Gameplay has nothing to do with the GUI (I think at this point we should at least be more clear on the terminology). I don't think a trailer needs to show an in-game HUD to prove that it's gameplay. That's all I'm saying.
@@Luis-Torres If you want to get into specifics, specify the games and trailer footage. Each one is an individual case. I've written dissertations on interactive media, so I could get into it, but a RUclips's comment thread is a bit of an uncomfortable place to have such an in-depth discussion.
In this video, I bring up my scepticism in some cases because of context that isn't always communicated. Maybe I don't say it for other games because those have shown additional footage I didn't use. Or maybe I say it because the publisher has faked footage before. Or maybe I see something that is or isn't there that I didn't mention specifically. Unless you specify a part in the video and clarify with me what I mean, then you might not even know what I'm talking about.
Gigguk makes game videos as well?
Never forget how Bioware stole money and abandoned Anthem
My recomended games in this list: PATH OF EXILE 2, TOWERS OF AGHASBA, BLACK MYTH WUKONG.
Games that im interested: NO REST FOR THE WICKED, NEW ARC LINE, KINGDOM COME DELIVERANCE 2
Thats it :3 you can watch my comment afterr 2 years and tell me if i was wrong (some games life final fantasy remake and dragon dogma are already done, so im not counting on them.) REGARDS.
Like comment and subscribing just for the massive amount of work that you had to do to make this video.
Hey thank you! It does take ages to put this all together.
How long did this take to import to RUclips?
Do you mean how long did it take me to make this?
There are quite a few visually impressive games here, but I hope that at least some also have good story. Perhaps it's due to my age, but it seems that truly exceptional RPGs are becoming harder to find. Sure some are pretty, their gameplay is often too simplistic or focused on modern day agenda. Add some weak dialogue(or translation problems plaguing modern games) and I am out. Thanks for video tho!
42:00 I dunno when you recorded this video, but as of your video going up, Wuthering Waves is out. It's been out since 22nd of May. Combat feels as slick as it seems, as is the ease of traversing the map. Story is ... forgettable, honestly. It's had some serious performance issues that Kuro is working on fixing on. It's also a gacha game, if that's a major no no for you. That said, now is a good time to start though, because Kuro has been pouring out in-game rewards as apologies for numerous in-game issues big and small.
Thanks for the update and details! I produce this video over many months, impossible for me to get this all together by myself in a reasonable time. I try to fix outdated recordings but sometimes I miss them, which is why phrasing can be a bit off or a little dated. I was fixing things through the end of May yes.
How can you cover Swordhaven without mentioning that its from the developers of Atom RPG? I think that would have been more informative than going on the whole tangent about nostalgia.
Because Atom RPG is not a household name that's just a go-to reference point. It released over half a decade ago and right this second, about 250 people are playing it on Steam: steamcharts.com/app/552620 - It's not like saying 'Fallout' or 'Final Fantasy' which are more ubiquitous references. Plus, mentioning a 6 year old game doesn't mean it's like a game from 20+ years ago, so I'd have to spend as much time explaining Atom RPG just so people know why I'm even mentioning it. On top of that, generally speaking I don't like mentioning that a game is from the same developers for quality or style reference. Developers often change people or styles, so I kind of only mention it when the game is going to be very different from their last game. Just because Atom RPG was good doesn't mean this one will be, so really there's very little use mentioning it.
Where is Trails through Daybreak and SMT V Vengeance?
You mean The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak? That released in 2021? 2023 on Steam. And Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance? That's just an enhanced version of the game that released in 2021. They're both old games.
Gamer "I know pixel art isn't everyone's favorite" Zakh
I have to keep saying it, otherwise pixel art haters won't stop complaining about it in the comment.
@@GamerZakh Tsk, uncultured rubes.