Dragon Quest XI

Dragon Quest XI is one of 2018's hidden gems to hit PC gaming. This deceptively simple looking RPG is built on decades of design experience with JRPGs and a strong quest storyline in which you, a teenage protagonist with mystical origins and hidden powers, embark on a journey to seek out a powerful weapon to fight evil, while you're chased by an evil king and his knights. In this journey, you join forces with several interesting and three-dimensional characters that make the quest unlike many an RPG before it.

It may look cartoonish to the extent of looking like a 1990s anime, but Dragon Quest XI is built using Unreal Engine 4 and uses DirectX 11. It can be moderately taxing on your machine.