Great RPGs can live or die by their final chapters – what's been built up through a long journey could pay off with major revelations that leave a lasting mark or fall flat with cliches that undermine ...

Considering how great 2025 has been for RPGs, finishing the year out with a new Octopath Traveler game feels like a cherry on the top of a giant sundae. Octopath Traveler 0 is a natural evolution of ...

Octopath Traveler 0 from Square Enix is a bold endeavor for one of gaming's most well-established and respected RPG series since 2018. Narratively a prequel to Octopath Traveler and still equipped ...

Octopath Traveler 0 is a HD-2D turn-based RPG featuring a standalone story set before Octopath Traveler. As you might guess, Octopath Traveler 0 is set before the events of the first game in the ...

Octopath Traveler 0 arrives with the kind of confidence only a series that helped define the HD‑2D era could muster. As a prequel to the first two games, it carries the weight of fan expectations, ...

One of the major differences in Octopath Traveler 0 is how the game handles the narrative. Instead of eight characters with eight plotlines, you follow the protagonist’s story. This branches into four ...

The art is the series’ best. The pacing is still the series’ worst aspect. Combat reaches new strategic heights. City-building is fun but feels under-implemented. The main narrative is strong and ...

Octopath Traveler, the turn-based RPG from Square Enix, hit the ground running since its original reveal back in 2017. Even with an odd title, it pioneered a new graphic style of HD-2D, giving us the ...

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A third Octopath Traveler game is on the way and the Square Enix JRPG series looks as stunningly retro as ever. This one is called Octopath Traveler 0 and includes a bunch of new features. It also ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Octopath Traveler 0 is a big game that we want to take our time to review right, but reviewer Michael Higham is more than 70 hours deep already - he sat down with Executive Reviews Editor Tom Marks to ...