Dakota_Cody

Vlad I love that you had Kenshi on this list what an awesome SciFi RPG!!

To answer your question, AC Origins is definitely my favorite AC by setting alone! Ancient Egypt, count me in!

This is a great list, my list is the exact same except I have the number 1 & 2 flipped. I have Chrono Trigger as my 1 and TLoZ: A Link to the Past as my number 2. A list full of classics. I might personally remove Zombies Ate My Neighbors for TMNT: turtles in time.

I don't know what says more, that Starfield is on this list or that in reality the pool of open world space games is so shallow that one could make the argument for Starfield being on the list.

However, personally I would rather see Eve Online, the Outer Worlds, (even with the fact you can make the argument it's not truly open world). Or any old 2010 space RPGs (ie. KOTOR) over Starfield. It was just such a huge letdown.

I'm surprised Outward didn't make this list although very much an inde title Outward has no level scaling whatsoever and has a wonderful brutal open world, add to that the fact that your character is just a "regular person" with no special powers or mystical importance means you can be killed and even one shot killed be several enemies early on and late game. Kenshi should also be on this list. Another inde RPG hit with an amazing dynamic open world with no level scaling. It's deep roleplaying mechanics and alien setting make it all the more brutal as you can be in conflict with multiple factions at once and at any point move into an area controlled by alien slavers or giant space arachnids that vastly our power you. I encourage everyone to play both of these games.

I'm surprised that this article didn't just push to 10 games with how easy it would be if you included stuff like most of the games from the far cry series you could add in probably Hunter call of the wild or any number of hunting games because of their like realistic systems that are supposed to simulate real life wildlife. The survival game The Forest, I mean it's in the name. Lol And on top of that I think DayZ could get a nod cuz although it's not the most graphically impressive game being that it's a little older, but the fact that most of the maps are covered in Forest and the two official maps are completely forests. And the forests include deer and elk and other game animals. You can set hunting traps. There are wolves that run through the forest that attack players and other wildlife, make the force seem very dynamic and immersive.

I'm sure there are more, that was just off the top of my head. I do think the games included in the list are good choices though.