#ROLEPLAYING GAMES 2016 SERIES#

It was another tough competition this year, and the final cuts to bring the lists down to five each were not made lightly. This one isn’t for everyone, but if you have fond memories of Dungeon Master or Might & Magic, you’ll probably get into 7 Mages.Ĭongratulations to the games that made the list. So many RPGs aren’t afraid to challenge the player’s combat skills, but so few these days actually test the player’s puzzle-solving abilities. What this one does that puts it above so many other efforts is in implementing actual puzzles that you need to use your head to solve. We got a wonderful one this year with the release of 7 Mages, though. Mobile platforms haven’t been getting nearly enough first-person dungeon crawlers for my liking in recent years. The 2016 RPG Reload Golden Panchos For Ported RPGs Without further ado, let’s check out the RPG Reload Golden Pancho Award winners for 2016! These lists are nothing more than my own opinions, and by no means have I listed every excellent RPG that came out this year because that, my friends, would be bananas. The Best Ports prize is not solely or even substantially based on the quality of the port itself, but rather how good the overall package is. The lists are not ranked, but simply presented in alphabetical order.

#ROLEPLAYING GAMES 2016 SERIES#

Each series is allowed only one spot to keep certain genre elephants from trampling everything else.

We’ve got Best RPG Ports, Best Original RPGs, and Best Sleepers. Beyond that, I leave the arguments to those who enjoy the practice. Some may want to dispute whether or not all of these games are RPGs by their personal definitions of the genre, but I like to keep the award possibilities as open as I tend to keep this column, which means that as long as a significant amount of RPG elements are included, the game is considered eligible. Like before, I’ve separated games into ports and originals in the interests of fairness, and included a third category for more under-the-radar releases. There were tons of cool RPGs again this year, so paring that list down was as difficult as ever. To repeat myself a little bit from the previous years’ awards, I know we already did some Best Of articles here at TouchArcade, but RPGs are what the Reload is all about, so I want to give them some special attention. No actual trophies yet, unfortunately, but who wouldn’t want a Golden Pancho next to their name? They’re so cute! Since I’m not clever enough to come up with good names, these awards are known as the Golden Pancho Awards, in honor of the frequently-seen Kemco monster. That’s right, it’s time for the third annual listing of the RPG Reload‘s favorite RPGs of the year. In this weekly feature, we usually take a look at a game from the App Store’s past, but due to the New Year’s holiday, we’re doing something a little different this week. Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to yet another special edition of the RPG Reload.

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