4 cool mobile action RPGs from G-Star 2014

The action RPG (ARPG) is a super popular genre for mobile games. While it’s tough to quantify this in numbers, since action RPGs, card battle RPGs, and just about any other game with a roleplaying element is simply considered an RPG, it’s also easy to see that many companies have been producing ARPGs, some with considerable success. Gamevil is one such company to have hopped onto the bandwagon, having soft launched a slew of popular mobile ARPGs in Southeast Asia recently.

At G-Star 2014, a number of developers showed off some promising looking ARPGs that could be big in 2015. Here are four to look out for:

Project Black

Hack-and-slash ARPGs are often played in a horizontal screen, but not Project Black. Currently still in development, Black is from South Korean studio 3Point Inc. and puts players in one-on-one battle with impressively conceptualized enemies. It allows you to roam freely while out of combat, but draws you into a dungeon crawling experience more meaningful than just beating things up. Visually, the game reminds me a lot of Final Fantasy XII. Ah, Ivalice! Project Black will launch next year.

Harmagedon

Harmagedon is your standard ARPG, but it does what many made-in-Asia ones have not. Rather than creating the high fantasy worlds Korean ARPGs are wont to do, it makes use of something truly Western: the zombie apocalypse! Yes, the main character is a hulking fellow who has left his family to go save his daughter, and to make mincemeat of some Resident Evil style zombies along the way! Harmagedon is a fun hack-and-slash adventure that is due for release mid next year. It is developed by South Korea’s Double A Games. It is slated for release in Q2 2015.