Once a sprawling paradise, Athia is on the verge of destruction because of a zombie-making infection that Frey calls the Break. It’s a fish-out-of-water story inspired by Alice in Wonderland. However, everything changes when she stumbles upon a talking vambrace which transports her to the magically corrupted world of Athia. Amid all the arrests, her one goal is to save enough money to leave New York and care for her cat, Homer. Frey’s heart is in the right place, though. In Forspoken, Alfre Holland (or Frey, for short) is a 20-year-old miscreant, orphaned as a baby and stuck in the wrong circles. While these games makes its non-partisan appeal subtle, Forspoken is taking a more blatant approach.

However, on rare occasions, a game can cross over and appeal to both audiences, such as Elden Ring and the Dark Souls series from FromSoftware, a Japanese developer.

Though they might not realize a distinction between the two, each player usually has a preference leaning one way or the other. Most roleplaying games today fall under two categories: Western or Japanese.

Forspoken steam deck