Original settings in RPG game

That game doesn't have a bromance, Alester is a ratfink.

 

It's a tragic bromance!

 

Not a bromance if the other dude is a rat. Not all that tragic if you get to kill him.

 

What a game, man. Although, if anyone wants to check it out be warned: it's literally unfinished, in the best traditions of shoestring budget Russian game development. There's literally no actual ending to this game, it ends on cliffhanger.

Xenus 2 was made on the same engine, and it's as much rpg as Fallout 4 is.

 

Dark Souls? Eerie setting, almost everyone you meet is either undead or some sort of demon, and the game has unique enemy, armor and weapon design.

 

Funnily enough if you disable permadeath in the options, CoQ can be played as a normal CRPG instead of a Roguelike and it's actually pretty good at it.

The locations are all interesting, and the setting absolutely menaces with atmosphere. It has a pretty fun main quest, a few good side quests, and the random generated ones aren't that bad because the content they send you into is at least randomly generated itself. Even if you turn permadeath off, the game is still pretty damn hard and you still need to actually know how to build characters in it to be able to finish the game without some extreme save scumming.

It's just a pity that the devs all have soy milk in their coffee.

 

You got something against rats, bitchboy?

 

Sure I do. A baseball bat, Heavy boots and rat poison.

 

Darth Roxor

 

Spoilers!

 

Inquisitor. Playing as a religious fanatic or a manipulative/corrupted inquisitor in a low, dark post-ap fantasy world. I highly recommend to at least check it out.

 

don't tread on me

 

Western style rpg in general have generic settings as far as I remember. Only very few of them are originals.

 

I assumed it was the one between the old man and his dog.

 

If action games with RPG-lite element count, The Cursed Crusade is set during the IVth Crusade (yep, THAT ONE) and you get to assault Contantinople, among other things. Everything else is cliche, including the demon-possession plot etc, but I dont remember than many games that had Byzantines and the Varangian Guard in it.

 

Bound by flame is typical fantasy, and not really good.

Another vote for Albion, since it was mentionned and ignored. Starts on a spaceship but does not stay there.

Else, Cyberpunk (so the three Shadowrun, Dragonfall being the best by a landslide, but also Dex for a platform RPG of adequate quality)

If you are not rebutted by old games, then Dark Sun and the Ultima Travels on Mars and in the Jungle.

I am currently playing AP but it feels more action with strong RPG element than anything else.

For prison colony feel : Gothic I and Dungeon Rats. I could not get into Age of Decadence though.

 

In Superhero League of Hoboken you control some super hero losers in a post-apocalyptic world. I love the game but you must at least not hate classic adventure games because it's both a classic party-based RPG and a classic adventure game with a lot of puzzles.

Jewel of Arabia: Dreamers uses an Arabian nights settings. It's good.

Silk is based on the silk road, unfortunately I can't say RPG systems or systems at all are any deep. Note that at least I didn't think the game was easy (increasingly hard objectives, with a time limit, quickly become hard to fulfill), only that it was simple.

Theseus: Journey to Athens takes place in ancient Greece. Turn-based combat and branching story.

Pioneers takes place in an exploration era setting. It's promising and you can get some fun by playing it now but it is also unfortunately on hold.

Necken uses a folk setting, it's a bit of a rogue-like but with real-time exploration (combat is turn-based but not like classic rogue-likes).

Laplace No Ma is a horror/investigation dungeon crawler. It is a SNES JRPG but is actually quite western-inspired (P&P like system with low numbers and progression ...). It's good. The translation used to be broken but it was fixed recently.

Hollow is a horror/investigation game clearly inspired by Laplace No Ma.

Robinson is a roguelike which, like its names suggest, tries to be Robinson Crusoë, it's very down-to-earth with down-to-earth survival.

 

Sword of the Samurai, a very enjoyable (and sadly forgotten) RPG/strategy/arcade hybrid, and a must play game if you're into historical pseudo-simulationist games like Pirates! and Darklands.

 

Both shadowrun and Bloodlines settings are pretty rare. One is fantasy cyberpunk, with orcs and magic shit living alongside megacorps and cybernetics, all set in a dystopian future. It doesn't even look ridiculous somehow. VTM Bloodlines is set in a modern world vampire setting. The settings are detailed and well-done thanks to the tabletop roots.

Risen maybe? It's pretty generic overall, but it is set in the early modern age on a tropical island.

Seriously try Alpha Protocol, small budget but good story and fun characters. Choices you make can actually influence stuff, very intricate.

Expedition Vikings qualify. Middle ages but not fantasy. Historical RPG's are extremely uncommon.

You could also try Exanima, it is generic fantasy on the surface but it gets bizarre fast the deeper you go.

 

I hear that HD edition is unfinished and it's better to play the original one. Moreover, Blade of Destiny seems to be set in a standard fantasy world with humans, elves, orcs etc.

 

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Tallyho laddie.

 

Isn't anyone going to mention Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader? Medieval Spain preparing to invade England in a world where magic returned to the world during the crusades. And the mongols are goblins now.

 

Witcher has very original setting.

There, I said it.

 

More like fairly generic fantasy setting with original twist.

 

Yeah but the game was terrible once you leave Lisboa so I can’t recommand it to anyone.