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This 2025 RPG Fixed Open Worlds, And I’m Worried Developers Won’t Learn From It

The open world genre, while absolutely one of my favorites, has its fair share of problems. Even some of the greatest games within it suffer from a myriad of flaws inherent to the...

This Underrated Open World RPG Is Perfect for Skyrim and Witcher 3 Fans

Open-world RPGs have become one of the most popular genres because they give players the freedom to lose themselves in massive worlds filled with exploration, combat, factions, and...

What Should Replace Open World Design After Its Reckoning

You know the feeling. You open the map in a new game and your heart sinks a little. Hundreds of icons. Question marks. Little flags. A dozen categories of collectible you did not a...

What are the Game Design 101s when it comes to open world? How do you design a world with exciting activities to do rath...

I can't give you a "definitive" way to do it since there really isn't one - there are often lots of reasonable and different approaches to solve any given design challenge - but I...

Meet The Dungeon Master Controlling Ghost Of Yotei’s Lawless Japan

Open worlds are difficult to craft. Make them huge and fill them with enough content to justify the space, and the result can become repetitive or tedious to explore. Lean too heav...

Popular Open-World Survival Game Could Get MMORPG Spin-Off According to New Report

Image courtesy of PocketPair Over the last few years, quite a few Early Access survival games have captured the attention of gamers. New entries, like pirate survival RPG Windrose...

Popular Open-World Survival Game Could Get MMORPG Spin-Off According to New Report

Image courtesy of PocketPair Over the last few years, quite a few Early Access survival games have captured the attention of gamers. New entries, like pirate survival RPG Windrose...

Highly Rated Open-World Survival Game is Free to Play For a Limited Time

Courtesy of Stunlock Studios When it comes to open-world survival games, there are quite a few good options out there. From Early Access hits like Enshrouded to older favorites li...

Wuthering Waves

Wuthering Waves is a free-to-play, cross-platform open world action RPG with a post-apocalyptic anime style and a heavy emphasis on fast, technical combat. You play as Rover, an am...

Another LORD OF THE RINGS Game is Coming and It's Going To Be a Big Open-World RPG Adventure

Cash Heist City - 12 Minutes of Gameplay (Created in Fortnite)

Cash Heist City is JOGO’s biggest Fortnite drop yet, a full-scale, mission-driven sandbox where players can rob, race, and raise hell inside a living, breathing city. Built in UEFN...

5 Best Underrated Open-World Games

There are a lot of open-world games vying for our attention. So, understandably, many skip those that don’t garner immediate favor with fans and critics alike. After all, why shoul...

Where Winds Meet interactive map

Explore the vast regions of Where Winds Meet, the epic wuxia live service game with this interactive map.

The freeform structure of The Blood of Dawnwalker means "it is absolutely possible to skip everything" and beat the game...

Much has been made of the freeform structure of dark fantasy vampire role-playing game The Blood of Dawnwalker, a game that famously has no main quest. There's an overarching goal...

Square Enix Potentially Bringing Back Open-World Series Not Seen Since the 2010s

Square Enix is — potentially — bringing back an open-world action series not seen since the 2010s. Of course, Square Enix is best known for its RPGs, made by its internal studios i...

Popular Free Open-World Sci-Fi Game Is Finally Coming to Steam

Image courtesy of HoYoverse Free-to-play games tend to be a bit hit or miss. Some offer a surprising amount of playable content before you hit the paywall, while others suffer fro...

6 Best Open World PS2 Games You Forgot Were Awesome

The PlayStation 2 is the best-selling system of all time. Developers were already falling all over each other to put out new games on the console, and then Rockstar Games released...

Best Open-World Game Ever Made Now Free With PlayStation Plus

The best open-world game ever made is now free with PlayStation Plus, at least via 66% percent of tiers. PS4 and PS5 users subscribed at the PS Plus Essential tier have unfortunate...

Highly Anticipated Open-World Survival Game Reveals New Gameplay Trailer (& It Looks Amazing)

Courtesy of Nordic Troll and Gameforge The last few years have been very good for survival games. And thus far, 2026 is continuing the trend. We got Early Access for the long-awai...

Heartlands | Online MMO

Heartlands is a multiplayer pixel sandbox where players create EVERYTHING. Everything you see and interact with was drawn and placed in the world by players!...

Brush Up On Your Hacking Skills, It’s Time To Explore Night City In Wuthering Waves

Or, well, a version of the city, anyway.

Why Do Sandbox Games Attract the Most Creative Online Players?

A platformer with a single storyline can be unforgettable, but of all game genres, sandbox titles are where creative minds lose track of time. Something about having the canvas wid...