Best RPG Games
1,761 RPG games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes
Released: Dec 1, 2009
Critic rating: 84.5 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Scattered across five different regions, five special heroes must travel their own dangerous paths to grow in strength, unravel a demonic plot & ultimately save the world from chaos.
Monster Hunter Tri
Released: Aug 1, 2009
Critic rating: 82.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Platforms: Wii
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
Monster Hunter Tri depicts an ecosystem where man co-exists with fantastic beasts that roam both the land and the sea.
Pokémon Diamond Version
Released: Sep 28, 2006
Critic rating: 83.3 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Pokémon Diamond Version and Pearl Version are role-playing games (RPGs) developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS.
The Binding of Isaac
Released: Sep 28, 2011
Critic rating: 83.5 / 100
Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
The Binding of Isaac is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy rogue-like elements.
Pokémon Legends: Arceus
Released: Jan 28, 2022
Critic rating: 85.3 / 100
Mpopovich16's rating: 8.1
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
The Pokémon Legends: Arceus game honors past Pokémon games’ core gameplay while infusing new action and RPG elements.
Dune: Awakening
Released: Jun 10, 2025
Critic rating: 89.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Dune: Awakening is an open-world survival MMO set on the desert planet Arrakis.
West of Loathing
Released: Aug 10, 2017
Critic rating: 82.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Google Stadia, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Say howdy to West of Loathing - a single-player slapstick, stick-figure comedy adventure role-playing game set in the wild west of the Kingdom of Loathing universe.
2064: Read Only Memories
Released: Jul 13, 2014
Critic rating: 82.6 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Point-and-click, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie, Visual Novel
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Ouya, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
In Neo-San Francisco, a vibrant city of low life and high tech, you will witness the world’s first sapient robot learning to grow and live as you become embroiled in the darkest scandal of 2064.
Genshin Impact
Released: Sep 28, 2020
Critic rating: 83.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Genshin Impact is an open-world action RPG, where you embark on a journey across Teyvat to find your lost sibling and seek answers from The Seven, the gods of each element.
Dark Cloud
Released: Dec 14, 2000
Critic rating: 81.1 / 100 • 78 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
One of the PS2's first RPGs, Dark Cloud is a title that challenges players to not only strategise, battle and solve puzzles, but also to create geographical landscapes using the new Georama system.
Persona 5 Tactica
Released: Nov 17, 2023
Critic rating: 83.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Tactical
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
After a strange incident, the Phantom Thieves wander into a bizarre realm where its citizens are living under tyrannical oppression.
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
Released: Jul 28, 2011
Critic rating: 82.4 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Tactical
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player
When a new website that shows the manner of people's deaths in advance makes the rounds amongst Japanese high schoolers, a trio of students is shocked to witness their own deaths in a terrible subway accident just minutes away.
Dungeon Siege II
Released: Aug 16, 2005
Critic rating: 83.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
It’s been a generation since you vanquished the evil that plagued the Land of Ehb, and now…a new menace has awakened.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice
Released: Jun 9, 2016
Critic rating: 81.4 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Visual Novel
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS, Android, iOS
Game modes: Single player
Ace Attorney 6 continues the investigation and courtroom of its predecessors, in which players take the role of the defense attorneys; Phoenix Wright, Apollo Justice, and Athena Cykes, and try to defend their clients.
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
Released: Apr 24, 2025
Critic rating: 82.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Visual Novel
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
A new adventure from the creators of the Danganronpa and Zero Escape series!
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
Released: Mar 18, 2017
Critic rating: 80.2 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
An enhanced version of Monster Hunter Generations.
Sacred
Released: Mar 19, 2004
Critic rating: 85.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
A shadow of evil has fallen on the kingdom of Ancaria.
Super Mario RPG
Released: Nov 17, 2023
Critic rating: 85.2 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Mario, Bowser, and Peach partner up to repair the wish-granting Star Road in this approachable role-playing adventure.
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Released: Dec 4, 2018
Critic rating: 81.3 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
From a team including former designers of HITMAN and PAYDAY comes Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, a tactical adventure game that combines the turn-based combat of XCOM with a real-time stealth and exploration of a post-human world reclaimed by nature… and Mutants.
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
Released: Mar 24, 2015
Critic rating: 84.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection is a compilation of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!
Islets
Released: Aug 24, 2022
Critic rating: 81.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Take to the sky and reunite a fragmented world in this surprisingly wholesome metroidvania!
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Released: Jan 29, 1998
Critic rating: 81.0 / 100 • 26 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: Sega Saturn
Game modes: Single player
Enter the world of Panzer Dragoon Saga and experience a game like no other: a fusion of classic Panzer action with the most technologically advanced RPG to come to Saturn.
Elite: Dangerous
Released: Dec 16, 2014
Critic rating: 82.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), SteamVR, Mac, Oculus Rift, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
The next game in the Elite series - an amazing space epic with stunning visuals, incredible gameplay, breath-taking scope and award-winning sound.
Tales of Graces f
Released: Dec 2, 2010
Critic rating: 78.8 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Platforms: PlayStation 3
Game modes: Single player, Co-operative
In this newest title, the feelings such as "preserving one's faith", "saving their precious ones" and the destiny of raising the storm between three countries which form the setting, are portrayed.
Risk of Rain
Released: Nov 8, 2013
Critic rating: 85.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements.