

Released in 2020, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla is the latest in the new Assassin’s Creed mythology series and what a massive open-world RPG this is.

This is a living world and it feels like you’ve really experienced it once the credits roll and you’ll never forget the time you spent with Geralt, Yen, Triss, and Ciri. There are also multiple DLC add ons available that add around 40 hours of original stories as well. There is 80+ hours of content, tons of weapons to find, abilities to unlock, monsters to fight, and relationships to form and the overall experience is equivalent to that of an epic TV show. You are on a mission to save your ward Ciri from being taken by the Wild Hunt an army of spectral riders who want her for some unknown reason. The Witcher in the title refers to Geralt, a medieval monster hunter who is a superhuman altered by chemicals and largely shunned by society. It seems ridiculous, but it really is the bar for which all open-world games should be judged. Often, when a new open-world RPG is released, there is immediately the thought of “Is it as good as the Witcher 3?”. Much like another game soon to come on this list, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has become an entity so big that it inspired the most successful Netflix show of all time.


RPGs are now completely open world and regardless of the theme or storyline, you can be sure you’ll have a map with tons of places to explore and side quests to complete. Just a few years later, we got to The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, and once that happened, it was pretty clear what was going to happen. Open world games are part of the gaming lexicon here in a major way these days and it’s become a natural progression for the industry ever since the emergence of GTA 3 changed everything.
