Open world · Single-player · Story-rich games

For open world single-player story-rich games, this is what we'd play tonight.

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21 games match — here are the 10 we’d play first.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

Shivering Isles and the Daedric questlines hold up 20 years on — but a stutter-riddled UE5 port and a year of dev silence make this one to wait for on sale.

  • Updated 2d ago

Monster Hunter Wilds

Seamless zone-to-zone hunting and the Seikret beat World's moment-to-moment — but a thin roster and AMD crashes mean you should wait for a sale.

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

The quest writing and side characters are why people replay it at 500 hours — it deserves the medieval-RPG crown, if you can live with save limits and slow travel.

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Crimson Desert

The combat rig and region-by-region exploration carry 300 hours; the main story and voice acting fall short — buy it for the world, skip if you need a plot.

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Battlefield 6

The 64-player infantry flow is the closest thing to BF3 since BF3 — but you die behind cover often enough that it's only worth it on sale.

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Avowed

Dual-wielding a wand and a flintlock is genuinely great — but the open world is empty and the choices never branch, so it misses the Obsidian reactivity you came for.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Still the best-value RPG on Steam — Complete is $10 over base for $25 of expansions. Check your OS first: the next patch drops Windows 10 and DirectX 11.

  • Updated 11d ago

Elden Ring Nightreign

Solo and duos both work now — the launch reviews calling solo a death sentence are a year stale. Still worth $39.99 if you can live with six months of silence.

  • Updated 11d ago

Starfield

Free Lanes finally fixed the space travel — you can cruise between planets now — but the procedural planets and the weak main story are untouched.

  • Updated 11d ago

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