A game that uses an isometric perspective places the camera at an angle, looking down on the action and creating the illusion of depth uses an isometric view. The view was first popularized by the ...

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...

Dwarf Fortress can now be played in real-time isometric 3D, thanks to a host of mods for a game designed to be rendered ASCII text format. Released in 2006, developer Bay 12 Games' Slaves to Armok: ...

Isometric RPGs are a unique genre in gaming with a venerable history. Originally borne out of the limitations of technology, the graphics style allowed developers to give the impression of three ...

Shadowrun Returns studio Harebrained Schemes recently released the first assets for the Kickstarter-funded title, and they provide a look at the game's isometric perspective. Shadowrun Returns studio ...

Fallout's isometric RPG days may seem long gone. As Bethesda expands its open-worlds further and further, the classic era of text scrolling, sprite animations and that breathtaking 2D art drifts into ...

Fallout is now a first-person - or third-person, if you fancy it - video game. But it wasn't always so. The post-apocalyptic role-playing series began life with an isometric viewpoint, a visual style ...