Players will have to start from zero and work their way up by earning loot and completing quests in these open-world games.

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Not every game needs to feature a massive world, as shown by these incredible linear JRPGs for players tired of open worlds.

Where Winds Meet is nothing if not ambitious. Hailing from developer Everstone Studio and published by NetEase, the sprawling action-adventure will take us back a millennium to ancient China. My ...

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Where Winds Meet makes it ridiculously easy to lose track of time. You step outside a city gate or walk away from a main quest marker, and suddenly the entire world feels like it is gently urging you ...

The core ideas of Watch Dogs have always been as engrossing as they are prescient. Playing as a hacker on the fringes of a surveillance state is an inherently cool setup for an open-world game, and ...