55) No Man’s Sky

The Universe is in your hands

No Man's Sky Launch Trailer

No Man’s Sky is a literally impossibly large open-universe exploration RPG. You take control of your character and can explore the vast expanse of the universe and space. It’s played in a first person perspective and can give an amazingly immersive experience. The universe is procedurally generated and is seemingly endless. Generating entirely new planets, sounds, music and life forms.

Ah, the glorious open planet investigation. In No Man's Sky, the player has ultimate freedom and ultimate exploration. Something like this has never been done before, and this is sure to launch the world of gaming into a whole new spectrum. The universe is absolutely massive, and the player can fly to individual planets, new galaxies and solar systems. The player can spend weeks on the surface of one planet if they wish.

A player taking on a planet’s defences

The above statement is no exaggeration. The developers of No Man's Sky at Hello Games claimed that mathematically speaking, if a player were to instantaneously travel to each planet and stay on it for a mere one second, it would take around 5 billion years in real time. This is mind-blowing information. They said that in the NMS Universe, you can expect there to be 18 quintillion planets to explore (or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 to be exact).

Lead developer Sean Murray said that he estimates that 99% of the planets will never be visited. It's so unbelievably large that he said “repetition may occur after playing the game for 4000 to 5000 years” if you were to play the game every second of every day for that amount of time. 

No Man's Sky gameplay

56) World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth

"You are NOT prepared"

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth Cinematic Trailer

Studies show that 110% of all gamers have at least heard of the legendary MMORPG, World of Warcraft.

World of Warcraft has been one of the greatest titles in the RPG genre for about 14 years, and it’s not slowing down with its’ numerous expansion packs, each growing the maps, the in depth gameplay and the lore. It’s also a sequel following the Warlords of Draenor expansion.

The new Demon Hunter class is really cool

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is a new expansion with new areas, items, levels and its own new campaign. It highlights the attack of the burning crusade again. You take control of your custom character, and get to play a new race called Demon Hunters who have their own special abilities. There was a system in place called the transmogrification system. The Transmogrification system allows the player to change the appearance of items without affecting their stats. This allows players to make their characters look super cool with any armor and weapons they want.

The gameplay is a 3rd person action RPG set in one of the biggest open worlds we have ever seen. The player can explore everywhere, level up by doing numerous quests, collecting a huge amount of items and fight monsters. The player can form parties with other players and play along with them. Players will have to work together to conquer dungeons and high level monsters.

Official Gameplay

57) Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward

Fight the Chaos in Heavensward

FF Heavensward Cinematic

Final Fantasy decided to change things up a bit with this one. Final Fantasy XIV (14) is a Final Fantasy MMORPG, similar to World of Warcraft, in fact, just set in the world of Final Fantasy. 

The player can take control of their customized character and explore the lands of Final Fantasy. You are caught up in both an invasion by the dangerous Garlean Empire, and the Primals. The player can follow main quest chains to participate in the game’s main story.

Of course nobody focuses on the main quests in games like this, right? I’m looking at you, Witcher 3. Final Fantasy XIV has plenty of side-quests and exploration to keep you entertained and engaged for hours on end. 

You should want to play this game just because you get to look like THAT

The gameplay features solid mechanics and a good progression system. It has player vs player, guilds, party creation and more. A really nice feature of this game is that regardless of server or language, the game features a large library of automatically translated game terms and general phrases which allow players who speak different languages to communicate.

Final Fantasy Gameplay

59) EVE Online

Space, the final frontier.

Eve Online Cinematic Trailer

Space, the final frontier. Tis the glorious time for blowing things up.

Eve online is a space action Open-galaxy MMORPG.  It’s set 21,000 years into the future, when humanity, having exhausted the resources on Earth, have to leave it behind and colonize the rest of the Milky Way. Of course this led to more competition and conflict over the available resources, just like on Earth.

The player assumes the role of their own character. You have 4 races to choose from: Amarr, Gallente, Minmatar, or Caldari. Each of these races can actually be further divided into three bloodlines to give a predetermined appearance, which the player can obviously tweak.

Hmm, what ship do I feel like today?

The player has a variety of different types of in-game professions to pursue. These include, mining, trading, exploring, manufacturing, and even piracy. There is a heavily present combat element, featuring both PVE and PVP (Player vs Environment and Player vs Player). The player can fly their spaceship around the galaxy, dock at stations or get into all-out space wars.

EVE gameplay

60) Lost Ark

Lost Ark cover image

Lost Ark Launch Trailer

Okay, if you want incredible brutal satisfaction, you have to play this game.

Lost Ark is a high fantasy isometric hack and slash RPG, with beautiful graphics, I might add. It’s been considered the Diablo-style MMORPG that players have always wanted.

Dive into the world of Lost ARK, a fully-fledged MMORPG in a giant world. There’s plenty to do to keep oneself entertained (besides the main story of course.) You can fish, craft items, mine, play card games and even indulge in drinking.

There are a numerous amounts of hidden quests, which I found to be quite interesting. A hidden quest can be activated by emergent means, like eavesdropping on someone’s conversation. 

Now, let’s get to the combat. First, we are looking at ridiculously over the top, brutal, overpowered combat and abilities. The main player can take on hordes of enemies at once and lay them to waste in mere seconds. It also features boss battles that you have to be a lot more careful with. The combat is influenced by your character, race, powers, items and weapons. When creating your character you can choose between combat classes like: Battle Master, Devil Hunter, Arcana or Berserker.

It’s so pretty, dishing out loads of damage

Lost Ark Gameplay