by James Christy
Say what you will about the 80s, the Me generation had board games on lock. Aside from undisputed heavyweights of the era like Axis and Allies and Pictionary, a slew of great turn-based proto-RPGs riding the ... Read More →
by Meg Stivison
Spiderweb Software’s Avernum: Escape from the Pit is an old-fashioned open world RPG adventure for iOs and Android. Avernum is an underground realm, to which you and your party have been exiled for treason against the ... Read More →
by Ajay Kumar
Epic Pirate Story is a Kairosoft inspired pirate RPG created by Epic Devs. You start the game by picking your pirate’s name, gender and the name of your Caribbean island. The plot is a simple but ... Read More →
by Travis Fahs
I’m not on a crusade against in-app purchases or the “freemium” games driven by them. Plenty of these games manage to be enjoyable, and their paid premium features are well worth the money. If a game ... Read More →
by Meg Stivison
Everything one can say about Snailteeth’s new tower defence/RPG Spirited Soul is colored by the game’s poor localization. The translated game text is usually a bit awkward, lacking punctuation and confusing your and you’re, but some ... Read More →
by James Christy
In our modern, workaday world, where big budget RPGs like Skyrim and Diablo III dominate the gaming landscape, it’s easy to forget that the forebears of the RPG genre came not from computers or consoles, but ... Read More →
by Travis Fahs
When Aralon’s long-overdue Android port arrived less than two months ago ago, I said it was by far the most robust RPG on the platform, despite its dated graphics and rough edges. Now, like stepping through ... Read More →
by James Christy
Hewing closely to a well-established action RPG tradition, bit Dungeon owes a lot to the past. With aural and graphical nods to early console gaming and a top-down, room-by-room dungeon-crawling style reminiscent of the original Legend ... Read More →
by Saul Berenbaum
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: You’re trapped in a dungeon, and you need to match like-colored tiles to get out. I know, I know – stories like this are a dime a dozen, but ... Read More →
by Ben Jones
It’s the same old song and dance: you’re a nameless hero sent out to face dungeons and monsters, in the name of the king or whatever. Ark of the Ages does little to impress, let alone ... Read More →
by Travis Fahs
There’s a common sentiment that Japanese RPGs are stuck in the past, but nowhere is this truer than on the Android market. While 16-bit homages and remakes abound, including some very excellent efforts in the Final ... Read More →
by Sam Riedel
Having played more than my share of Dungeons and Dragons, I was pretty excited to play Mighty Dungeons, the new 2D hack-and-slash dungeon crawler from Laylio Games. It’s the French company’s first game, making them a ... Read More →
by Meg Stivison
8-bit Elegance. QuestLord, from Eric Kinkead, is an accessible – but not necessarily lite – retro role-playing adventure. The game opens with the sweet RPG classics. Your character is a human, elf or dwarf, and you ... Read More →
by Travis Fahs
Open-world on the small screen. A quick perusal of the Play Store reveals a massive, varied selection of role-playing games ranging from Social RPGs to Rogue-likes; from Japanese-RPGs to dungeon crawlers. But a real open-world RPG? ... Read More →
by John Markley
Unspectacularly Entertaining Japanese RPG releases have been disappointingly sparse on the current generation of consoles, but the genre has found new vitality on mobile platforms like the Sony PSP and now Android. This continues with Covenant ... Read More →
by Travis Fahs
Do you believe in magic? Red Robot Labs’ first Android title, Life is Crime, tried to stand out from the crowd of social sims vying to be the next Mafia Wars with its novel GPS hook ... Read More →
by Meg Stivison
Dungeonsweeper! Players of Dungelot, Red Winter Software’s casual, roguelike dungeon crawler, follow basic dungeoneering adventure goals as they explore: Kill monsters! Get loot! Don’t die! Each level is a grid of square rooms, just waiting to ... Read More →
by Sam Riedel
Holy Crap, I Just Bought Final Fantasy for $4. Kemco is back to try their hand at cornering the Android market for JRPGs. Like their last offering Symphony of Eternity, Symphony of the Origin is definitely a ... Read More →
by Meg Stivison
Love and Loathing in Las Zenonia. Zenonia 5, Gamevil’s latest installment in the Zenonia series, is a fantasy action RPG for Droid. Players enter an engaging fantasy world, with charming characters, oddly adorable monsters to fight, ... Read More →
by Travis Fahs
Start saving your Gil. Since debuting on the platform just a few months ago, Square Enix has been working overtime to bring as much of their iOS library to Android as possible. We now have remakes ... Read More →
Hardcore Feed
