Best RPG Games
1,761 RPG games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
SteamWorld Heist
Released: Dec 9, 2015
Critic rating: 87.6 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Google Stadia, PlayStation 4, Linux, Nintendo 3DS, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Wii U, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Join Captain Piper Faraday, smuggler and occasional pirate, as she recruits a rag-tag team of steam-driven robots and sets out on a daring adventure.
Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling
Released: Nov 21, 2019
Critic rating: 90.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling is an adventure RPG following three heroes, Vi, Kabbu, and Leif, as they embark on an epic quest in Bugaria in search of treasure and immortality.
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
Released: Nov 10, 2020
Critic rating: 77.4 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
In Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, players take on the role of Sakuna, a proud yet lonely harvest goddess who is banished to a dangerous island with a group of outcast humans.
The Last Campfire
Released: Aug 4, 2020
Critic rating: 88.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.
The Legend of Dragoon
Released: Dec 2, 1999
Critic rating: 83.5 / 100 • 94 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable
Game modes: Single player
The Legend of Dragoon is a Japanese-style RPG, visually reminiscent of Final Fantasy VII (pre-rendered backgrounds, 3D characters and battle scenes, CG animations to advance the story).
Nioh
Released: Feb 7, 2017
Critic rating: 87.6 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
In Nioh, players will traverse war-torn Japan as William, a blonde-haired swordsman whose background as a fierce warrior and seasoned knowledge of the blade allows him to survive in the demon-plagued land of the samurai.
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars
Released: Oct 1, 1996
Critic rating: 83.5 / 100 • 144 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars is a turn-based strategy video game developed by Jon Van Caneghem through New World Computing and published in 1996 by the 3DO Company.
Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth
Released: Sep 21, 2016
Critic rating: 76.9 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical, Visual Novel
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
The epic story of Utawarerumono comes to an end in Mask of Truth, as the fate of the world will be determined by warring nations.
Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide
Released: Jun 21, 2003
Critic rating: 83.5 / 100 • 42 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide offers role playing fans even more D&D features than the ground breaking original.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn
Released: Dec 4, 2012
Critic rating: 85.1 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn is the third and final add-on for the action role-playing open world video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon
Released: Jun 3, 2003
Critic rating: 85.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon is the second expansion for its RPG of the Year, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind for PC.
Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer
Released: Sep 27, 2007
Critic rating: 80.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Tactical
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Following the climactic battle against the King of Shadows, you awaken alone and stranded deep beneath the earth.
Final Fantasy XIV Online
Released: Aug 27, 2013
Critic rating: 85.3 / 100
Stephen Popovich's rating: 9.9
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Take part in an epic and ever-changing Final Fantasy as you adventure and explore with friends from around the world.
Gothic II
Released: Nov 29, 2002
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
Gothic II is a role-playing video game and the sequel to Gothic, by the German developer Piranha Bytes.
Arknights
Released: May 1, 2019
Critic rating: 83.4 / 100 • 65 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Tactical, Adventure
Platforms: Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS
Game modes: Single player
Take on the role of a key member of Rhodes Island, a pharmaceutical company that fights both a deadly infection and the unrest it leaves in its wake.
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox
Released: Sep 26, 2019
Critic rating: 84.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: Google Stadia, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
While imprisoned in Balduq, Adol is cursed and becomes a Monstrum.
Unavowed
Released: Aug 8, 2018
Critic rating: 79.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
A demon possessed you one year ago.
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
Released: Oct 7, 2004
Critic rating: 76.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Game Boy Advance
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
In Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, you must help protect the nation of Renais from the invading Grado Empire.
Tribes: Ascend
Released: Apr 12, 2012
Critic rating: 89.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Sport, Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative
Tribes: Ascend is the fourth major installation into this series of multiplayer FPS, centred around speed and pure teamwork, with the primary game mode of capture the flag.
Mass Effect 2: Kasumi - Stolen Memory
Released: Apr 6, 2010
Critic rating: 84.0 / 100
Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player
"Stolen Memory" introduces two new missions where the player assumes the role of Commander Shepard, an elite human soldier who must recruit a new squad member named Kasumi Goto and help her steal a graybox that contains important information and memories of her partner.
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona
Released: Apr 29, 2009
Critic rating: 90.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: PlayStation Portable
Game modes: Single player
Persona is a philosophical game that takes place in a world close to our own.
Monster Train
Released: May 21, 2020
Critic rating: 85.4 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Indie, Card & Board Game
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Hell has frozen over.
Fire Emblem Fates: Special Edition
Released: Feb 19, 2016
Critic rating: 87.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Fire Emblem Fates - Special Edition was a limited time bundle containing both base stories, Birthright and Conquest, and gave access to DLC for the 3rd story, Revelation, when it became available.
Legend of Ymir
Released: Oct 28, 2025
Critic rating: 83.3 / 100 • 25 votes
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS
Game modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Legend of YMIR is a free-to-play, MMORPG inspired by Norse mythology, available on PC and mobile platforms.
Punishing: Gray Raven
Released: Dec 5, 2019
Critic rating: 83.3 / 100 • 33 votes
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure, Visual Novel
Platforms: Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Punishing: Gray Raven is a story in the future.