Sasha is having a very bad day, emerging in a nightmarish underworld to find her family missing, her left arm a bloody stump, and a mysterious stranger offering her a strange, living sword. Featured among Apple's Best of 2016 apps, Severed has players guiding Sasha through her quest to rescue her family, exploring the netherworld and engaging in swipe-based combat as you cut past the monsters in your way. And harvest their limbs to grant you supernatural powers. Swipes are both attack and defence, parrying enemy attacks and leaving them open to your own strikes, and the game spices things up by throwing multiple enemies at you from different directions, making threat management and smart use of special abilities key to surviving and rescuing your family.
Why we love RPG Games
Role-playing games, also known as RPGs, allow you to immerse yourself in a character and move through that person's story. No longer just for basement-dwelling Dungeons & Dragons players, mobile RPGs combine your imagination with some fantastical graphics punch and interesting stories that span the globe or even the universe. These top picks offer you a variety of stories to dive into, ranging from a cyberpunk world filled with magic to a Game of Thrones-like universe.