Top 25 RPGs of All Time

Shadowrun Returns / Dragonfall / Hong Kong (Series)

Set in the near future, Shadowrun is the definitive cyberpunk roleplaying setting on tabletop, so it’s kind of weird that it took 24 years before it was developed into a proper digital RPG. No mind, though – Shadowrun Returns is almost more an RPG toolbox than a campaign (although Dead Man’s Switch, the campaign it ships with, is delightfully noir and solidly written). Combat takes many cues from XCOM, with the added layer of hacking-based combat meaning players have to fight across two fronts, and protect characters who are jacked into a terminal. Developer Harebrained Schemes has released two standalone expansions,Shadowrun: Dragonfall and Shadowrun: Hong Kong, both of which add to and improve the original Unity-powered game engine.