If you're the kind of roleplayer that likes playing and inhabiting villainous dickheads, Tyranny was quite the treat. And for the most part, the game was warmly received - both by critics and reviewers on Steam.

But praise is one thing; sales is another. And according to a new interview, Tyranny didn't do quite enough of the latter.

If there's one thing I do for this site, it's play a stack of games. 2016 was an amazing year and offered some of the best video games in recent memory. I sat down to list my personal favourites for our year in review.

Tyranny is an RPG that hearkens back to the good old days of games like Baldur's Gate and Planescape Torment. It's weird, then, to see it offering mobile-game-like daily rewards for regular play.

I usually play good characters in RPGs, but in Tyranny, I've found myself drifting toward the most diabolical path possible.

Tomorrow, the development studio Obsidian will release Tyranny, a video game about a grand war between good and evil in which the forces of evil, led by an iron-fisted fascist named Kyros the Overlord, have achieved victory.

Let's get this out of the way upfront: Tyranny is not Pillars of Eternity 2. It's a different animal, a decidedly more sinister one. But the gulf between them is more than skin-deep.