It's hard to imagine a time where dark fantasy wasn't a game industry heavyweight that permeates every fiber of my being—who doesn't love tales that leave you in a moral quandary for days on end? The perceived level of complexity that you're getting into can be challenging to overcome, but over the last decade more and more games in this vein have transformed from niche outliers to something more accessible.
Baldur's Gate 3 remains one of the biggest RPG surprises of recent years. The franchise rose from a twenty year slumber, and through the power of nuanced storytelling emerged from the CRPG weeds as the undisputed champion of the genre—and, in some ways, of all genres.
