What Upcoming CRPGs from Late 2024 to 2025 Do You Intend To Buy during Early-Access, or on Day One?

[cyborgboy95]

I know nowadays the act of buying games during early-access, on day one or even week one is discouraged; and rightfully so, given that so many devs treat their 1.0 product like an on-going live-service thing with many remaining bugs and missing cut contents that will be added back later as paid dlcs.

I mean, why pay to be a beta testers whether it is under the guise of early-access or 1.0, when you can just play other games on your backlog and wait a few years for the 50% off complete bundle with full patches and all DLCs instead?!

However, personally I would still go against my better judgement and make an early-access, day-one or week-one purchase to support the devs of my favorite games. Indie games often receive this treatment from me, since they are much cheaper and thus more affordable full-price than their AAA counterparts.


Thus, I intend to get full-price all of the upcoming following titles from late 2024 to 2025 if the initial impressions are good enough (otherwise refund is always an option):
1. Drova Forsaken Kin (15-10-2024)
2. Passageway of the Ancients (16-10-2024)
3. The Adventurers (11-11-2024)
4. Guild Saga: Vanished World (11-10-2024)
5. Flint: Treasure of Oblivion (24-10-2024)
4. Hidden Pass (4-2-2025)
5. Banquet for Fools (1-10-2024)
6. Scourge of the Reptiles (2025)
7. Sector Unknow (Q1 2025)
8. World of Antera (2025)
9. The Royal Office of Magick Affairs (2025)

What about you? Do you still buy game full-price during early-access or on day 1? If yes then what upcoming crpgs do you plan to buy this way??

 

[Lemming42]

Just RPGs or games in general? Whatever, here's my list, it's mostly shit that could be called RPGs anyway:

Coven (if it comes out)

Atomfall

Mouse

Slay the Spire 2

Menace

Brian Fargo Presents: Clockwork Revolution, A Brian Fargo Production, Produced by Brian Fargo (Copyright: Brian Fargo)

Knights in Tight Spaces

A few maybes:

New Arc Line (it's one of those things you'd want to see someone else play the first hour of before you buy it, could be very good or could be a mess)

The Stone of Madness (looks good but not enough info yet)

South of Midnight (like the look of the style and the setting and all that but I'll wait to see if the gameplay is the usual boring soulslike bullshit first, if it is I'll just watch someone play it instead)

Flint: Pirates of Oblivion (been following this and still can't tell if I'm actually interested or not)

Kingdom Come 2 (I liked the first game but I'm not really feeling the hype of this for whatever reason, it feels more like I'd be buying it out of obligation, I might skip it in the end)

The Royal Office of Magick Affairs (looks cool but I want to know more about it)

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (looks good but I'm very skeptical of the developers since I thought their Wolfenstein games sucked and they all have bad haircuts, so I'll have a friend test the waters first)

Fable (again, we'll really have to see how it looks closer to release day; I'm excited at the potential but get the feeling it might just end up being a shitty load of boring jank and they've not shown anything overly encouraging yet)

 

[karoliner]

Menace and maybe Clair Obscur Expedition 33.

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

1. Veilguard
2. AVOWED

A game I'll never buy because I don't support nazis: kcd2

 

[Jermu]

next kotc2 module


labyrinth of touhou 3, mystic land and call of saregnar are nobrainers for me
kcd2 was but not sure anymore with denuvo

 

[toro]

I know that the question is about crpgs but the only games I will 1-day purchase are:

Underrail: Infusion
MonsterHunter Wilds
DD2 Dlc (if announced)
Ghost of a Tale 2, Kenshi 2 (if released)

 

[ropetight]

Only games I bought on full price are some RPGs or Space strategies.
Even that had enough mixed success/cautionary tales that I reduced this to only games that are completely my cup of tea and I know developers are not scammers.

The rest - I wait for them to get out of Early Access, then second Early Access which is 1.0 release nowadays, and then on good sale (more than 50% discount).
For AAA slop - the best I can do is 10 bucks for the GOTY edition, but I rarely do this altogether.

 

[Butter]

Almost everything I was interested in over the past few years has released. The Jovian System is the only thing left, but it doesn't have a solid release date. I don't give a fuck about anything in the OP.

Edit: Search for Maphaldo is also going to be cool.

 

[Hobo Elf]

Archaelund and Mystic Land: The Search for Maphaldo are the ones I'm looking forward to. Banquet for Fools looks interesting to me but I'm holding off for now since the devs' track record is bad.

 

[Incognito]

I never buy early access, not interested in being part of development and debugging. But these have been sitting on my steam wishlist and might be a release day purchase:

Code of the Savage
Scribe
The Darkness Below
Drova - Forsaken Kin
Heroes of the Seven Islands

Also these metroidvanias:

Beyond the Ice Palace II
Garden of Aiden
Anatine

 

[Berengar]

Normally I steer clear of EA and preordering but Battle Brothers was so damn good that I'll make an exception for Menace.

 

[Modron]

Drova
Call of Sarengar
The Jovian System
Code of the Savage
Prometheus Wept
Never Second in Rome (not really an rpg but I am listing anyways)
more Heads Will Roll DLC
Scribe RPG if it makes it.
Sword Haven
Urban Strife

Does it still count if you're waiting until 1.0 release of a game to buy it? If yes:
Archaelund
Back to the Dawn
Faeland

Potentially
Aletheia: Return of Odysseus
Mystic Land: The Search for Maphaldo
New Arc Line
Sector Unknown
The Bustling World
KCD 2 (depending if my potato can handle it and I don't decide to wait for the GotY version)

 

[ind33d]

Imagine expecting to be alive in 2025

 

[Jaesun]

I'm kinda lucky in one regard, in that my computer is basically shit (GTX 1080ti and only a 3.60GHz processor) so I can't even play any new next gen shit.

Archaelund I already bought but... I still need a little bit better computer for it.
Mystic Land: The Search for Maphaldo
Code of the Savage
Core Decay
Tower of Kalemonvo
Exekiller (I love the setting in this but I probably can't play it).

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

7. Sector Unknow (Q1 2025)

Developer promised a demo, no need to go completely blind into this.

My instabuys:
-Menace
-Urban Strife
-Fallen Gods
-Project Haven
-Call of Saregnar
-Zodiac Legion

Waiting for early access to have more content:
-All Quiet in the Trenches
-Guild Saga
-Archaelund
-Banquet for Fools

 

[Abu Antar]

What I have backed or have in my library (Early Access). (CRPG being a bit loosely.)

Archaelund (2026 at the earliest), Edge of War (my or may not release), End State, Examina, Exoplanet: First Contact, Glorious Companions, Knights of the Chalice 2 (Module 2 and 3), Low Magic Age, Monomyth, Sacred Fire, Stellar Tactics, Stoneshard

On my Steam Wishlist (there are others that I want but not yet on Steam)

Aledorn, Call of Saregnar, Drova: Forsaken Kin, Fallen Gods, Fight Life: Vanguard, Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Menace, Mystic Land: The Search for Maphaldo, Project Haven, Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy, Underrail: Infusion, Zodiac Legion

 

[Fedora Master]

None, because I'm not FUCKING RETARDED

 

[Mikeal]

Only ATOM Team and Styg shall receive my money.

 

[Modron]

Only ATOM Team and Styg shall receive my money.

What are the odds that infusion will come out in 2025?

 

[goregasm]

KCD2
Code of the Savage
Archaelund
Menace
Urban Strife
Underrail
Vendor (is it out? Is it good?)
Sword Haven
Monomyth

There were a few more zombie and viking type rpgs or tactical games I was interested in but I am on mobile and not signed into steam for my wishlist.

I will not play any of these games because I don't have time, but will toss some shekels to the ones like urban strife, underrail etc.

KCD2 is a definite buy as well so long as it remains fag free.

 

[d1r]

None.

 

[Dorateen]

One more for Mystic Land: Search for Maphaldo

And if Swords & Sorcery: Sovereign ever gets released.