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Csaba "ForestWare" Székely's Sword Hero is one of the most exciting upcoming games: An ambitious, open-ended RPG with complex NPC behaviors, physics interactions, and emergent gameplay⁠—the Hungarian developer affectionately referred to it as a "eurojank" game, a label applied to ambitious, but often flawed attempts by European developers to replicate or advance '90s PC design sensibilities.

Despite its slightly derogatory connotation, I've had this growing feeling that eurojank⁠ has won. Larian, CD Projekt, IO Interactive, and GSC Game World are just a few outfits that were second-tier studios putting out cult classics in the 2000s, and now they're on top of the industry while many titans of the PS2 and Xbox 360 generations are struggling.

Imagine telling someone in 2007 that, in the coming decades, Mass Effect studio BioWare would slowly fade, while RPGs would come to be defined by the makers of Divine Divinity, or the company that adapted a Polish fantasy novel series into a weird, cult RPG. I asked ForestWare what he thinks of the recent resurgence of complex, systemic single-player games vs. ones with shinier production values and tighter presentation.

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