Rpg games with the ability to explore parallel worlds and dimensions.

[Thick Jim]

I'm looking for some video games where you can explore alternate versions of similar worlds, something like the RIFT pen and paper rpg. (Although Rift is not really a video game.)

[Cathulhu]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/39120/RIFT/?snr=1_7_15__13
It is not?

[Thick Jim]

Nguyên văn bởi Cathulhu:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/39120/RIFT/?snr=1_7_15__13
It is not?

I'm talking about a completely different RIFT which is a pen and paper rpg about interdimensional world traveling. I'm hoping for some video games with a similar concept.

I'm referring to this:
link[en.wikipedia.org]

[Zekiran]

Well, nothing official besides Lego Dimensions, I think.

You could brute force things with Gmod, Minecraft, or other such open-world persistent or player-driven content.

But getting the kind of licensing that Rifts has, .... hell Palladium Games doesn't even own the rights to most of their published (in the past) stuff any more. It's expensive.

Lego Dimensions, however, is an *astonishingly good* game, given that it's legos - but the properties that they do cover are done hilariously well, and surprisingly deeply for some.

[Kargor]

Based on what I've seen so far, most games will probably just have content in one or the other dimension -- so there's no actual difference between "dimensions" and any other portal that takes you to a different continent.

Take Neptunia. While the franchise has "dimensions" firmly embedded in its lore, at least two games spanning multiple dimensions (Ultradimension, Zerodimension and Heartdimension, in addition to the regular Hyperdimension that the series is based in), and one NPC that can freely travel between dimensions (Croire), they are just areas that are initially difficult/impossible to access (characters end up there via some means that they have no control over, and will have to find a way back during the story), but eventually a portal will be established. Other than that, those dimensions are just different places for story parts to take place in, sometimes similar to the Hyperdimension (Ultradimension), sometimes completely distinct (Zero and Heart dimensions).

I can't say I've played every game in existence, but I'd say "dimensions" are rare, and they are more of a plot-term than an actual mechanic where you can freely play in slightly different versions of the same game world.

[Thick Jim]

Oh well. I was hoping there would be some pretty good ones with this concept, especially some diablo-likes. The whole question came up after coming across a closed beta game called Last Epoch, which is about time travel through different eras, which reminded me of RIFTS. Not a fan of the time travel part of dimensional travel though, which is why i asked for other games.

[Zekiran]

Nguyên văn bởi Mitosant:

Oh well. I was hoping there would be some pretty good ones with this concept, especially some diablo-likes. The whole question came up after coming across a closed beta game called Last Epoch, which is about time travel through different eras, which reminded me of RIFTS. Not a fan of the time travel part of dimensional travel though, which is why i asked for other games.

I suspect that a lot of writers default to "dinosaurs must be in the distant past!" and "spaceships are in the future!" .... It's pretty sad, honestly.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Nguyên văn bởi Mitosant:

I'm looking for some video games where you can explore alternate versions of similar worlds, something like the RIFT pen and paper rpg. (Although Rift is not really a video game.)

I have no idea what RIFT tabletop is like, but you may find such a feature in Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy V, and Final Fantasy VI. They're not implemented in the same way but I guess in some ways they could be considered to have "alternate versions of similar worlds".

Also, this is a feature in some Zelda games, if you consider those RPGs. (They're typically not called RPGs these days but they used to be called such.)

You may want to check the video game listings on this trope page, and the lists for its subtropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlternateUniverse

[Sorceress]

It's not an RPG, but in the World Next Door you do explore the parallel world