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RPG classics

Order by year of first release. You place all 44 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How the RPG classics timeline game works

These cards are classic role-playing games, from dungeon crawls on early home computers to Japanese console epics and huge open-world adventures. The studio that made each one appears under its name, and you arrange them by the year of first release anywhere in the world. A single game sits on the line to start, with its year shown. Put each new card into the gap you believe is right. A good call reveals the year; a bad one still lands the game in its true place, though it costs one of your three lives.

The year here is the first release, which for many Japanese games came well before players in other countries got them. That gap is the most common way to slip. Each series appears no more than three times, so you can use the entries you know as stepping stones. Studios help too, since many of them released a run of games in a fairly tight window. Remember that a game you played late may be much older than your memory of it.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 44 cards you might be dealt, with 16 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Ultima Richard Garriott
  • Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord Sir-Tech
  • Final Fantasy Square
  • Phantasy Star Sega
  • EarthBound Ape and HAL Laboratory
  • Chrono Trigger Square
  • Pokémon Red and Green Game Freak
  • Final Fantasy VII Square
  • Fallout Interplay Productions
  • Planescape: Torment Black Isle Studios
  • Diablo II Blizzard North
  • Final Fantasy X Square
  • The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Bethesda Game Studios
  • Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic BioWare
  • Dragon Quest VIII Level-5
  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Bethesda Game Studios
  • Mass Effect BioWare
  • Persona 4 Atlus
  • Demon's Souls FromSoftware
  • Dragon Age: Origins BioWare
  • Xenoblade Chronicles Monolith Soft
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Bethesda Game Studios
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt CD Projekt Red
  • Persona 5 Atlus
  • Nier: Automata PlatinumGames
  • Disco Elysium ZA/UM
  • Elden Ring FromSoftware
  • Metaphor: ReFantazio Studio Zero

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