Baldur's Gate 3 has settled into our new gold standard for RPGs—our 2023 game of the year and new Top 100 champion—and that's understandably whipped up some new interest in the CRPG genre whose flag BG3 proudly flies.
We're on hallowed ground here, an ethereal and vaguely defined sub-genre of the RPG whose foundations are rich story, (usually) D&D-style combat, (usually) an isometric perspective and (sometimes) stylistic anachronisms intended to harken back to a previous age of classic RPGs. And if that wasn't amorphous enough, the C stands for 'computer'. Way to do the legwork, letter C.
