I didn't partecipate in these type of threads in the past, but you know what they say: new year, new life. Time to play some games instead of just hoarding
The release of a certain chinese game last year made me curious about how much asian devs (and userbase) expanded on Steam in the past years (as it's probably the harder part of Steam to find more information about in western sites). So I actually looked into it and was was surprised to not only finds tons, tons of them, but most of them also have a very high amount of reviews (and in many cases positive reviews too), and since 90% of these games don't even have a thread on the other place my curiosity got the best of me and I decided to try them and solve this mystery once and for all (thanks to the winter sale too)
As the first one I picked 大侠立志传：碧血丹心 [Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion], 20k reviews at 80% positive, official english translation (acceptable translation. keeps many chinese language quirks which makes the english text a bit weird, but still readable)
I blame the language barrier for why some of these games aren't talked about much on western sites. Ignore the store page description and trailer: this game is a pure cRPG in everything (minus character appearance since you play as a fixed protagonist). You start by distributing stats and passives, then you are thrown into the game and are free to do what you want. Follow the main quest, join a different faction instead, befriend npcs, kill who you want, grind levels or skills, steal items, recruit companions. There are some obvious budget limitations but the game as it is is still very big and well made. According to the devs this game sold a million copies on Steam alone yet almost no one talks about it. I played 17 hours so far according to Steam and I enjoyed it a lot
