5 Isekai Games to Play While Waiting for Forspoken's Release

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The action RPG Forsaken is set to be released in October this year. The game is also confirmed to be part of the Isekai genre where the main character, Frey, is magically transported to a different world.

In anticipation of the upcoming launch, this is as a good of a time as any to take a look at a few other video games where the main character is also transported into a different world. The sheer diversity of games in the Isekai genre is a testament to the flexibility and versatility that it offers to developers.

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This popular Ubisoft franchise is centered around the eternally warring Templars and Assassins competing to gather powerful artifacts left behind by the Isu, an ancient precursor race. However, this is a war that takes place both in the past and the present simultaneously.

Indeed, many of these artifacts were lost throughout time. The descendants of the respective factions, therefore, use a virtual reality machine called the Animus to relive their ancestors' memories in a simulation and locate the artifacts. Assassin's Creed is one of the best AAA franchises on the market and a great Isekai as well. Recent Assassin's Creed entries follow a similar, if more detached approach, but any pick of the franchise could be good.

There are no shortages of Sonic games where everyone's favorite speedy blue hedgehog ends up in another world. One could point to Sonic and the Secret Rings or Sonic and the Black Knight as examples. The excellent Sonic X TV show sees Sonic and his friends brought to the human world, but so does the critically panned Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) game. Luckily, there are still more Sonic games yet to come in the