GOTHIC

A Spanish remake looking to fulfil some German fantasies

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Listen carefully and you may hear the buzz. It's a little more distant than it is for many remake projects, but it's there. Gothic, Piranha Bytes' 2001 action RPG, is loved more in its native Germany than elsewhere, mainly for its intricate worldbuilding and an ambitious approach to player autonomy. Despite never quite breaking through internationally, it did well enough to garner sequels and spinoffs, and more recently the interest of THQ Nordic, which acquired and resurrected the fading IP. A playable teaser for a remake was offered up in 2019, and shocked fans by reworking many of the series' mechanics – a response that, it turns out, the developers very much wanted.