Gothic

A single continuous valley with scheduled NPCs and joinable camps defined European open-world RPGs.

Released 2001 Developer Piranha Bytes Publisher Egmont Interactive Platform PC Genre Action RPG Era Broadband & the console shooter Website gothic.de ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Gothic inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Day/Night Cycle ~~1983~~NPC Daily Schedules ~~1992~~Faction Reputation ~~1997~~Seamless Streaming Open World ~~2001~~

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