10 Hotly-Anticipated PC Exclusive Games Coming In 2016

4. The Bard's Tale IV

It's been 28 years since the last proper Bard's Tale game, Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate. Since then, EA have relinquished the copyright, allowing inXile to continue the legacy with this most recent instalment, Bard's Tale IV. The game's already been successfully crowdfunded, comfortably exceeding its initial $1.25m goal, which means it's only a matter of time before we can finally get our hands on the thing. By all accounts, it's going to be a genuine dungeon-crawler which prioritises maze-like environments and puzzle solving. Unlike the company's previous games, Bard's Tale IV is being developed on the Unreal Engine, and will utilise photogrammetry, a graphics technique which allows the game to map real-world textures onto its own environments. What does this mean? Well, that Bard's Tale IV is going to look absolutely fantastic (The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and Star Wars Battlefront also used this technique), and providing it doesn't deviate too much from the series' already winning formula, it should be a huge hit. Be jealous console gamers. Be very jealous.