Rediscovering Lost Legends: 25 Forgotten RPG Games

more in my gaming library!

I played Sudeki decades ago and atm i wanted to find the name of this game and you did it. Sudeki is the best from this list, it's just old graphic

Drakensang was really cool :)

Crusaders of Might and Magic. That was a good forgotten game

Are these still available?

If we're going for games by Spiders Studio ("Bound by Flame" and "Faery: Legends of Avalon" that you mentioned), I'd also highly recommend "Technomancer" and "Mars: War Logs". They're all admittedly a bit rough around the edges, but I really enjoyed the post apocalyptic setting, mature story and characters in both of them, and as a bonus, they both happen in the same world and their stories happen in parallel to each other. Of course, perhaps the best and most polished game by Spiders thus far is "Greedfall" and gladly not yet forgotten.

And if we're going for games like "The Cursed Crusade", I'd also recommend "The First Templar". A very similar setting happening during the crusades and about the fall of the Knights Templar order. Similar style skill progression where we spend exp points to learn new skills and get stronger.

One might say these are "Forgotten Realms..."

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Moar info plx... Also learn to play Rune ...............-.-

From the ones listed here that I have played:
Arx Fatalis is amazing, even by modern standards. Played it recently, for the first time, and while it did have 1-2 hiccups, it is great.
Enclave is equally fantastic, but with no flaws to it. It's a more arcade experience though. Both are dirt-cheap on Kinguin, for anyone interested.
Hunted Demon's Forge is basically Gears of War with a hot elf and a hot ghost-lady. It's fine, just don't expect to be blown away.
Faery Legends of Avalon is a turn-based RPG. The really cool part (apart from the 360 movement of the flying fairies) is how much you can customize your fairy with various insect parts, through the gear you gather. You start with the typical girly fantasy fairy with the butterfly wings and end up with an insect Frankenstein's monster. Other than that though, it's pretty indifferent.
LOTR War in the North: I forgot I had even played that until I saw it on my steal library.

Gothic 1 and Gothic 2, Darkstone, Risen

Arx Fatalis other strong selling points is that you have a lot of player autonomy. You can resolve quests and problems in different ways making you truly feel like you had your own adventure than a scripted one. Gothic 1 follows this same thing.

Also Venetica had 3 guilds you can join each having a different look for your character and having different subplots

Some absolute gems on this list and some underrated classics. But including Raven's Cry, makes me cry. Just a horrible, horrible game with literal racist dialog etc. included. I have no idea why you guys would include this literal dumpster fire of a game in a list like this.

Bound by Flame was nice to play, but VERY stiff to fight. Don't know if it was my PC, but i had to take like 1s delay correction between clicking the button and actually attacking cause otherwise id miss everytime xD Story was like 4/10 but overally as an RPG genre id give it like solid 7/10. About Enclave, i had lots of fun with that title, even bought it like 10 years after first gameplay and played the shit out of game xD Costed like 3$ on steam so i said "why not" a had the same amoiunt of time like 10 years prior :D Rest of them never even heard of, maybe arx fatalys and if i remember right i even played it but for like 10 minutes xd ....

Is the voice over done with AI???

Honorable mention: vampire the Masquerade redemption/ bloodlines .

Good luck finding Deathspank. Been searching for a few months and is a hard title to find.

i dont get it why hunted is in this list. i have played the game in coop with a friend and beated it, since i hoped it get better but the game is absolute trash in every kind of perspective except maybe graphic

Cool vid, great narrative and games.

No Realms of Arkania: Shadows over Riva?

thank you for pointing out the game e.y.e divine cyberdermancy. I love this game and have spent many hours playing it.

Drakensang actually has 20 character professions to choose from, instead of 12.

Grimrock II is the best RPG game ever made. It is not forgotten by any means.
Rune, Enclave, Hunted and Cursed Crusade - are pure action-slasher games, not an RPG.
Especially Rune, it's a very basic, pure traditional hack-n-slash. (not saying it's a bad thing)
Hunted is more like oldschool Golden Axe, - only darker, 3D and with a megaton of secrets.
Enclave is a very pretty (for its time and beyond) hack-n-slash that requires some strategy.
Cursed Crusade - is a hack-n-slash with a gimmick that was popular around the ~mid 2000s
and is built around a blade-ballet choreographic eye candy and crusaders-knights-Templars
theme. If that appeals to you, then this is best game available with such theme. Provided,
you like hack-n-slash. Cause that's exactly what this game is. The RPG statement is a lie.
It is very similar to 2004 "Conan", - only prettier, more advanced and with European knights.
Knights of the Temple II - was indeed an RPG game, and a pretty damn good one at that
(sans the ending). The first part of it, just like "The Last Templar" and Cursed Crusade -
are purely hack-n-slash games.

Found Silverfall on sale for $0.99! Looks interesting. Also tried to find Legend:Hand of God but it looks like it's abandoned and unplayable on modern machines.

I didn't find references to the archangel game on Google, nothing on Steam or GoG

You forgot Sacred and Drakan: Order of the Flame(best dragon flying game ever)

Ive never heard of most of these. I was playing Grimrock 2 and thought: this game stimulates my imagination. Many of these arent on Steam. Some must be truly bad and grindy arpgs from old. But the background story of many sounds very interesting.

Please no more Showdan voice ai textvto speach.

What is the thumbnail from?

I kind of see why these were forgotten

If they are not all third person view console way of playing maybe they wouldn't be so forgettable.
Its very hard to find isometric RPG that is not at least very well respected. They exist but are rare.

Like for Arx Fatalis and Rune. Both are great games indeed. But Rune isn't RPG, it's ordinary slasher.

Hunted: Demon's Forge, i still have it! I remember playing this with my friend and it really was meant for co-op play. If you didn't try to work together the fights could get difficult.

They were forgotten because they were quite average or nearly bad games or boring for most of them

🤔 hmmm interesting.

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Its worth mentioning that almost none of these games are particularly GOOD. Some are actually awful. But they're certainly RPGs

Risen 2 ьеж гарна гра, нажаль забута

I have watched a few of your videos. Great job for shining light on obscure games.
But I must ask, are you a robot? Your speech pattern is...

Irre, alle Spiele die ich liebe waren dabei, und ich dachte nur ich mag Argeangel oder Rune oder das tolle Sudeki🎉

Arx Fatalis, Enclave & Sudeki were also released on Xbox.

Ви там тримайтеся, в харковській областіі. Гарний контент. Приємно бачити чудовий український канал про ігри.

Evil islands

ahh, i love roleplaying game games

Top 10 Best and Forgotten MMO games that were shut down and no longer can be played:
1. Wonderking
2. Firefall
3. Wizardry Online
4. City of Steam Arkadia
5. Cabal 2
6. Wildstar
7. Maplestory 2
8. Tabula Rasa
9. Dragon Gem World
10. Rubies of Eventide

My add: Terranigma from the good old SNES

Спасибо большое за ролик)

Sudeki the game I played as little kid, totally forget its name, was looking for it occasonaly for few years, making posts on forums and BUM random video and I just find it.
Thank you very much, that made my day and after long time I felt happiness :D.

Dawn Of Magic 1 and 2 as well.
Your character could mutate visibly depending what you do.

Ghost of a Tale is such an adorable game. Just don't get the heavy armor when you can, it takes all the fun out. Oh and I'd like to add: The Kingdoms of Amalur - Reckoning. The graphics aged really well and that is an understatement. The few bugs it has have not been fixed in the Re-Reckoning.