Open-world sailing simulation RPG Sagres coming to Switch

Runa, an indie game "inspired by classic and modern JRPGs," is closing in on its $50,000 Kickstarter campaign target after just 16 hours.

The devs who founded Toys for Bob are going back to finally build a proper sequel to their beloved 1992 open-world space game, and while they no longer have the rights to the original game's name, the Kickstarter for this new title has smashed its $100,000 goal in less than three hours.

EA's Black Panther game will be open world.

Star Wars Outlaws won't make players climb towers in the open world to reveal parts of the map, unlike nearly every Ubisoft game since the original Assassin's Creed.

First-person shooter WRATH: Aeon of Ruin will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch on April 25, publishers 3D Realms and Fulqrum Publishing, and developer KillPixel announced.

Loric Games has announced Echoes of Elysium, an airship open-world survival RPG. It will be available for PC via

Red Dead Redemption 2 can now kinda run on mobile as one content creator has shrunk the Western epic onto their Android.

It looks like another one of Square Enix's age-old JRPGs is being lined up for the remaster treatment, giving heaps of new RPG fans the chance to play Saga Frontier 2 who might not have had the opportunity - or, you know, might not have been alive - in 1999. 

tinyBuild has announced DUCKSIDE, an open-world survival crafting game for PC (Steam). A release date was not announced.

players are using mods to create massive cities from scratch in-game and the results are quite impressive. Though there are small cities spread throughout the map, most of them are small shacks built out of wooden planks and metal scraps instead of the materials players can use to build their bases. Fortifying bases and making sure that the base is completely unraidable is key in but this player wanted to make sure that they had even more life than just a few Pals running around.

When we sat down to chat with Chris Bullock, lead animator on open-world roguelike Hyper Light Breaker at developer Heart Machine, nobody had beaten its GDC demo yet. The show's recent demo was an exciting up-close look at what's quickly become my personal most-anticipated open-world game of the year, and Bullock's comments on some of the game's nitty-gritty details have only deepened my suspicion that it could be the biggest roguelike of 2024 in more ways than one. 

is the latest effort from developer Kuro Games (). It's an action RPG gacha title set to release for iOS, Android, PC, and PlayStation, and borrows heavily from already popular titles within the same space — most obviously, which it will inevitably draw numerous comparisons to. That's certainly not a bad place to start, however, and what innovates is more than enough to separate it as a game worth watching as it moves closer to a global release following another round of closed beta tests.