We love that these meaty demos have become increasingly commonplace for JRPGs, and with save data transferring, there’s no real reason not to give this a go. Will you be trying this demo?

I’ve been thinking a lot about DnD’s Project Sigil recently – playing around with the current version of Wizards’ shiny new, Unreal 5-based 3D virtual tabletop, building dungeon scenes, testing the ...

When you think of JRPGs, you probably think of Square Enix. The company’s bread and butter franchises are among the most famous the genre has to offer. Before it was Square Enix, it was two ...

Occasionally the stars align and a once-in-a-generation group of creatives come together to make something spectacular and ahead of its time. That’s how Chrono Trigger was made, an RPG for the ...

The mid-90s were an incredible period for the best JRPGs. Final Fantasy was on an incredible streak with FF6, FF7, and FF8, and the likes of Chrono Trigger and EarthBound remain all-time classics ...

Just about any game with some kind of fantasy slant is likely to feature some manner of summoning system. After all, it’s one thing to go throwing magic and spells around yourself, but it’s ...

Find your fabled destiny with these expansive PC role-playing games that let you slay monsters, fulfill ancient prophecies, or save the universe. My career has taken me through an eclectic ...

Chained Echoes gameplay. Chained Echoes is a turn-based JRPG released in December 2022. With a complex and rich story full of twists and turns, and an amazing world to explore full of details and ...

While JRPGs in the truest sense of the word are specific to Japan, we’ve seen lots of incredible games from other countries adopting the format. In 2023, Sea of Stars won my heart as one of the ...

Sigil is a command line tool for template processing and POSIX-compliant variable expansion. It was created for configuration templating, but can be used for any text processing.

First, these JRPGs still have the juice, especially Suikoden II. The snappy turn-based combat and open-ended collect-em-all-fest holds up 30 years later, with decent storytelling and even better ...