Eldoria Rising review: a fantasy RPG that finally trusts its players
Northwind Studios delivers the most ambitious open-world RPG since the genre's last golden age.
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Eldoria Rising is huge in a way modern open worlds rarely allow themselves to be.
Where most games of this scale corral you with quest markers and clean little arcs, Northwind has built something that lets you wander, get lost, fail upward, and stumble into stories no quest log will ever record.
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