10 Hotly-Anticipated RPGs That Will Blow You Away In 2019

7. Wasteland 3

Wasteland 3
InXile

Isometric RPGs modelled after the classic PC forefathers of the genre have enjoyed something of a creative and commercial revival over the past couple of years. One of the biggest trailblazers of this resurgence was the Wasteland series, from fan-favourite developer InXile (a name you might recognise as being one of Microsoft's recently acquired first-party studios), who crowdfunded the critically-acclaimed Wasteland 2, and are currently hard at work on a sequel.

Wasteland 2 took all the best parts of a tabletop RPG and stuffed them into a game that had incredible turn-based combat and a post-apocalyptic story as deep and compelling as anything the generation has seen so far.

Between this series and Torment: Tides of Numenera, InXile have proven that this kind of classic RPG experience is their bread and butter, but with no idea what their next project is going to be now they've teamed up with Microsoft, Wasteland 3 could also potentially be the last we see of them for a while.

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