Nival rebuild the game in 3D with caravans and a combat wheel; Ubisoft take the licence over from 3DO.
Solas, the Veil and a party of seven; the 2024 return.
Sinnoh, the underground and the slowest battles in the series.
Square and Nintendo together in 1996, with Geno and a timed-hit system.
A procedural province the size of Great Britain, in 1996.
Hoenn, double battles and a plot about the sea and the land.
Turn-based battles with an audience to please; the best-written Mario.
Unova with an all-new roster and a villain who has a point.
A brother, a sister and a talking book; the game Automata is a sequel to.
A new galaxy and the Ryder twins; the entry the trilogy fans argue about.
Galar, the Wild Area and Dynamax; the first mainline game on a television.
Sanctuary as an open world, with seasons and Lilith.
Prague under mechanical apartheid; the best level design in the series.
Ten years in Kirkwall, reusing every cave; the divisive middle.
Squall, junctioning and a card game better than the combat.
Ivalice, the gambit system and a political plot; Matsuno's last Final Fantasy.
The turn-based hexes before Heroes III; six factions and a soundtrack in MIDI.
Act V, the Assassin and the Druid; the expansion that made Diablo II permanent.
A brain in a jar and the Big Empty; the funniest thing Obsidian wrote.
The job system at its most flexible, and a tree that talks.
Vampire lords, Dawnguard crossbows and the Soul Cairn.
Two Source Hunters and a co-op RPG that lets you argue with your own party.
Four vault hunters on Pandora and a gun for every occasion; the looter-shooter arrives.
108 Stars of Destiny, a castle to fill and a war between brothers; Konami's first.
A ward of Candlekeep on the Sword Coast; the Infinity Engine begins.
Steve Jackson's Fighting Fantasy books as an app; Inkle's four parts.
Ichiban in Hawaii with a Pokemon parody; the biggest Yakuza.
A boy in a dream world and a truth in the real one; the RPG Maker horror that became a cult.
A thousand planets and Constellation; Bethesda in space.
Obsidian's Kickstarter revival of the Infinity Engine RPG.
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