NEOCLASSIC GAMES | RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 | WESTERN BUILT TO LAST

A horse moves slowly through wet grass while fog settles across the road, birds disappear into the trees and a train cuts through the distance without waiting for the player to notice. Somewhere beyond the nearest hill, a stranger may need help, a robbery may already be unfolding or nothing at all may happen for several minutes. That uncertainty remains one of the defining qualities of Red Dead Redemption 2. Rockstar’s western does not constantly...

PUBLISHED | O3.O8.IIO26

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NEOCLASSIC GAMES | DISCO ELYSIUM | THE RPG THAT TURNED INWARD

A dead man hangs behind a ruined hostel, a detective wakes without a name, and an entire city seems prepared to argue with him before he has managed to locate both shoes. Few role-playing games announce their intentions with such confidence. The murder investigation provides structure, but it is never the true centre of Disco Elysium. Revachol is examining the detective as closely as he examines the body, forcing his politics, failures, addictions, professi...

PUBLISHED | 23.O7.IIO26

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NEOCLASSIC GAMES | DIVINITY: ORIGINAL SIN II | TACTICS & FREEDOM

A good role-playing game gives the player choices. A great one makes those choices look dangerous before the consequences even arrive. Divinity: Original Sin 2 still has that rare energy. You move through a room and immediately start reading it like a problem, not only as decoration. Every object looks like it might matter, every enemy position feels suspicious, and every peaceful corner carries that small warning that something can go wrong if the player...

PUBLISHED | 27.O6.IIO26

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NEOCLASSIC GAMES | ELDEN RING | BEAUTIFUL, HOSTILE, UNFORGETTABLE

Elden Ring is not a neoclassic because it sold well, won awards or became one of those games everyone had to talk about for a few months. Those things helped, of course, but they are not the real reason it still feels important. Elden Ring belongs in the neoclassic space because it changed the way many players looked at modern open-world design. It arrived in 2022 and refused to behave like the usual large-scale RPG map. It did not constantly explain itself...

PUBLISHED | O8.O6.IIO26

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NEOCLASSIC GAMES | THE WITCHER III | IT STAYS WITH YOU

Few games manage to create a world so alive that even the smallest path seems deliberate, yet every corner carries whispers of history, sorrow, and mischief. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is one of those rare titles. Released in 2015 by CD Projekt Red, it quickly became a modern classic a benchmark for story-driven, open-world games that still holds up years later. From the first moment, you’re not just playing a game; you are stepping into a living, breathing morally...

PUBLISHED | O4.O4.IIO26

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NEOCLASSIC GAMES | DEAD SPACE 2 | DESERVED MORE RESPECT !

Dead Space 2 is one of those games that doesn’t really announce its importance loudly, yet somehow ends up sitting firmly in that space where you realize, years later, that very few titles have managed to do what it did. You come back to it expecting something slightly outdated, maybe a bit clunky, maybe carried mostly by nostalgia, and instead you get a game that still feels composed, deliberate, and surprisingly modern in how it handles tension, pacing, and...

PUBLISHED | II4.O3.IIO26

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