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Fantasy video games

  • Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia5 minDissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia launched on the 1st of February 2017, in Japan, assembling heroes and villains from across the Final Fantasy franchise into a single free-to-play mobile game. At its peak, it had been downloaded more than…
  • Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy7 minDissidia 012 Final Fantasy arrived on the PlayStation Portable in March 2011 carrying an unusual promise: it was simultaneously a prequel and a remake of the game that came before it. That structural gambit placed the twelfth war between…
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim10 minThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim shipped seven million units in its first week of release, and within two years had crossed twenty million sold. That was 2011. By June 2023, the number had climbed past sixty million. No other single-player…
  • Dragon Age: Origins11 minDragon Age: Origins begins on the eve of the fifth Blight, a moment when the monstrous Darkspawn threaten to swarm the surface world for only the fifth time in all of recorded history. Players step into this crisis not as a predetermined…
  • Dragon Quest13 minDragon Quest, the Japanese role-playing franchise that first arrived on the Famicom on the 27th of May, 1986, turned into something Japan had never quite seen before. Schoolchildren skipped class to wait in stores. Over 300 of them were…
  • The Elder Scrolls12 minThe Elder Scrolls began its life as a medieval gladiator game that nobody expected to succeed. In 1994, when Bethesda's small team told the developers of Wizardry VII they were building an action role-playing game, they were met with…
  • Vagrant Story7 minVagrant Story arrived on the PlayStation on the 10th of February 2000 in Japan, and it came with a peculiar design decision: no shops. In a medium where buying potions and swords from a merchant was as expected as a health bar, Square's…
  • Darkstalkers14 minDarkstalkers is a Japanese fighting game series and media franchise built by Capcom around monsters pulled from folklore across the world. In 2007, producer Yoshinori Ono told an interviewer he hoped to bring the series back one day. He…
  • EverQuest12 minEverQuest launched on the 16th of March 1999 with modest expectations from Sony, and within twenty-four hours it had drawn ten thousand active subscribers. Nobody expected what came next. By the end of that year, it had overtaken Ultima…
  • Bravely Default12 minBravely Default arrived on the 11th of October 2012, on Nintendo 3DS shelves in Japan and promptly sold 141,529 units in its first week alone, with a sell-through rate above 85%. That debut was strikingly higher than the sales of its…
  • Granblue Fantasy8 minGranblue Fantasy launched in Japan in March 2014 on Android, iOS, and web browsers, built by a studio called Cygames. What made it remarkable from the start was not its platform or its genre, but two names on the credits: composer Nobuo…

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