Top 10 Games: Fantasy
The highest-graded fantasy games we have reviewed, best first.
The Legend of ZeldaA battery in the cartridge, a map with no arrows, and the first game that trusts you to get lost.Read the review
Hollow Knight: SilksongSix years of waiting answered with a faster, meaner game that assumes you already mastered the last one.
Dishonored 2The Clockwork Mansion and A Crack in the Slab are the two best levels Arkane has ever built, and possibly anyone has.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's WeaveFour campaigns, one autosaved file, and the best Fire Emblem since Three Houses by a comfortable distance.
Hades IISupergiant follows a modern classic with a bigger, stranger and deeper roguelike, and only the rushed ending lets Melinoë down
The Elder Scrolls III: MorrowindAn alien island hands you a map, a rumor and no marker, then trusts you to find the rest of it yourself.
Prince of Persia: The Lost CrownThe best feeling two dimensional action game in years, sold to almost nobody, made by a team that no longer exists.
Hogwarts LegacyThe castle is the achievement; almost everything the open world asks you to do outside it is ordinary.
Dragon Age: OriginsSix different openings, one darkspawn invasion, and a party that tells you exactly what it thinks of your ruling.
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of WisdomZelda finally leads her own adventure, and her power to copy almost anything makes this the most freely inventive top down Zelda in years