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[D'znn-Xy'lll MetaChthonia]

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Does anyone have recommendations for games where you play as a modern urban fantasy wizard? Like Mage: The Awakening or the Nasuverse or The Dresden Files, not Harry Potter.

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Lego Harry Potter
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... in seriousness Harry Potter is just a discount Isekai LARPing as a Modern Urban Fantasy.

Uh there's Tactical Breech Wizards?

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In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.

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[Raven1138]

Can recommend TBW. Actually does a semi-decent job of creating a Harry Potter as written by Tom Clancy setup and you quickly discover the best spell is "Yeet the Tango out the nearest window."

 

[Vague Wanderer]

Will second Tactical Breach Wizards. Great writing and great world building, along with copious amounts of defenestration. Fun game.

More generally, for Urban Fantasy...well, there's Control, but that's less Dresden and more legally distinct SCP with psychic powers. Ghostwire Tokyo isn't bad, though that's mostly just blasting ghosts in a bit of Tokyo after spooky shit happened; there's not much variety in gameplay there. There's the Dishonored games as well, but those aren't a modern setting.

Ironically, Cyberpunk 2077 may be the closest thing gameplay wise given Netrunning is basically magic there, but that's really not what you meant, I think.

 

[vyor]

I'm planning on making an urban fantasy cyberpunk game.

But that won't be ready for like a decade from now so...

 

[Delta/Soul]

I need assistance in finding the video game that I am trying to find. Here is my question from before:

I am trying to remember/look for a video game where the player is given the option of choosing a mech to pilot but the character models are mostly female (there is only one male in game) and the game is pretty risqué but not full on nsfw. And the characters pilot their Mecha without the cockpit covering them. Does that sound familiar to anyone?

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[Malcolmo]

I need assistance in finding the video game that I am trying to find. Here is my question from before:

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What was the gameplay like and what were the graphics like? Because just mecha doesn't really help when it comes to finding stuff like that. Was it some variety of strategy or was it more armored core style?

 

[Anonnermus]

Does anyone have recommendations for games where you play as a modern urban fantasy wizard? Like Mage: The Awakening or the Nasuverse or The Dresden Files, not Harry Potter.

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I've been thinking about this one for a little and the only answers I can come up with come in the form of visual novels, mostly the Nasu stuff. The closest other thing I could think of myself is playing VtM:Bloodlines as a Tremere. Modern Urban Fantasy Wizard Video Gaming seems like something of an untapped market.

I actually hit the google AI search on this, looking for a list of 20 modern urban fantasy wizard video games and it all but immediately broke out of that specification with a list of 21 games to try and make up for the fact most of them weren't about wizards (I would maybe somewhat agree that Yakuza is a modern urban fantasy video game series but it doesn't really have wizards). It brought up Tactical Breach Wizards, as others here already had but I don't know it myself.

For something others haven't brought up already, there's the Shadowrun RPGs. Being a mage/Awakened is an option with it's own dialog options and such available to such a character but it's not central to any of the plots and Shadowrun itself isn't quite a modern setting.

 

[Delta/Soul]

What was the gameplay like and what were the graphics like? Because just mecha doesn't really help when it comes to finding stuff like that. Was it some variety of strategy or was it more armored core style?

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I never got a chance to play it, but I did see videos.

I think it was a the usual Japanese game.

The female characters weren't inside of the mecha in a traditional sense. They were the face of the mecha.

 

[Malcolmo]

I never got a chance to play it, but I did see videos.

I think it was a the usual Japanese game.

The female characters weren't inside of the mecha in a traditional sense. They were the face of the mecha.

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Imma be honest, with that little information it's not exactly going to be easy to find out anything about it. My suggestion is to try feeding what details you know to google's search ai, the thing is genuinely not that bad at chasing down games from details since you can chain them together or at least offering suggestions of what it could be if you keep telling it stuff to narrow the search.

 

[vyor]

Heads up: Horseshoes, Hotdogs, and Hand Grenades is completely and totally unplayable with PSVR2 controllers. Several weapons outright do not function.

 

[D'znn-Xy'lll MetaChthonia]

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I feel like Recommending another Game:
Cairn
Don't have it but can still recommend it. It's a mountain climbing Game with optional survival elements. You climb a mountain. There's a DLC where you climb other things that aren't that mountain which collectively are half as big as the mountain (not from the size of the DLC maps but the size of the Base Game mountain). This mountain has individual maps on it Referencing Real World climbing locations. It's also Open World btw. The only Fast Travel is jumping off the mountain and Fast Traveling to Aava's death. It's also really forgiving and actively accommodating about the climb (but it's not going to hand you everything) while encouraging you to move slow and take your time.
Plot:
You're Playing as Aava, world famous climber in a semi-scifi world (just from the start you have self screwing pitons and a robot that can both retrieve them, turn plastic into chalk (through "composting"), and repair pitons that break). Her goal is to climb Kami, a supposedly unclimbable mountain previously home to the Troglodyte Civilization. Along the way the real Reason for her climbing the mountain is unveiled and she meets both people who chose to seclude themselves as far from other people as possible and the corpses of those who died trying the same as her. There's multiple Endings. One Aava becomes yet another failure, one Aava becomes yet another corpse.

Heads up: Horseshoes, Hotdogs, and Hand Grenades is completely and totally unplayable with PSVR2 controllers. Several weapons outright do not function.

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Lucky me it's VR. My Experience with VR actually predates its commercial selling. Can't do VR even if I had space in my home for it.

Storytime with Meta:
One of my birthdays when I was a polyp was at mega-arcade that had some surface façade of a generic arcade while the basement area was this layered massive one that- You Know the Pizzaplex from that newish Five Nights? Imagine that but underground and everything is crowded into layers you sometimes can see through to higher layers but can never see the ceiling from the bottom floor. One of the balcony areas had this VR set up. Was my first Experience with VR. Hated it ever since and seeing Videos of it on YouTube can make me nausous.