The Best PC Games of 2013

The editors at PC Gamer have wrangled up a list of what they feel are this year’s “best PC games”, and when you reach page nine, you’ll discover that it’s filled with several role-playing titles. Dragon Age III: Inquisition, Wasteland 2, Dead State, The Dark Eye: Demonicon, Grim Dawn, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Gorky 21 (I didn’t even know this was in development!), Divinity: Original Sin, Sacred 3, Dark Souls II, Eschalon: Book III, and many others are all briefly spotlighted:

This post-apocalyptic RPG was one of the earliest nostalgia-bait pitches to appear on Kickstarter, promising to return players to the ruthless isometric world first created by Interplay in 1988. Its vision of a blasted future, and the form of its tactical combat, set the stage for Fallout. It also had probably the best pieces of cover art for a game ever. The principal developers of the original now return with this love letter to old-school RPG mechanics.

A third-person action-RPG, Demonicon follows the story of a pair of siblings, subject to the machinations of demonic forces. Players take on difficult moral choices in this bleak fantasy world, and their destiny will ultimately shape the fate of an entire continent.

An old school RPG of an uncompromising kind, Eschalon’s climactic chapter hopes to recreate the sense of pen-and-paper freedom with its many miles of wilderness and dense dungeon complexes. This third instalment builds in dozens of fan-requested features, overhauls the engine, and promises to be highly modifiable: the development kit will be shipped shortly after the game’s release.

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