Best RPG Games
1,761 RPG games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
Suikoden V
Released: Feb 23, 2006
Critic rating: 80.7 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
Suikoden V, like its predecessors, features unparalleled in-depth gameplay, a riveting storyline as well as the series' trademark 108 Stars of Destiny.
Persona 5 Strikers
Released: Feb 20, 2020
Critic rating: 81.2 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Persona 5 Strikers is a crossover between Koei Tecmo's hack and slash Dynasty Warriors series and Atlus's turn-based role-playing game Persona series.
Avowed
Released: Feb 18, 2025
Critic rating: 85.2 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player
Welcome to the Living Lands, a mysterious island filled with adventure and danger.
Harvest Moon
Released: Aug 9, 1996
Critic rating: 80.3 / 100 • 65 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: Satellaview, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Wii, Wii U, Super Famicom
Game modes: Single player
Ever wanted to live life on a farm, with nothing but the sun, the fresh scent of your crops, the muddy fields underneath, and cows and chickens to keep you company?
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Released: Aug 29, 2017
Critic rating: 83.4 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Tactical, Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Co-operative
This is the story of an unexpected encounter between Mario and the irreverent Rabbids.
Faeria
Released: Mar 8, 2017
Critic rating: 82.5 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical, Adventure, Indie, Card & Board Game
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Faeria is a digital collectible card and turn-based strategy game that takes place on a dynamic playing board set in a fantasy universe.
Mega Man Battle Network 2
Released: Dec 14, 2001
Critic rating: 80.3 / 100 • 45 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Tactical, Adventure
Platforms: Game Boy Advance
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Enter the futuristic universe of Mega Man.EXE in this new adventure in the Battle Network series.
Loop Hero
Released: Mar 4, 2021
Critic rating: 84.9 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Card & Board Game
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos.
V Rising
Released: May 8, 2024
Critic rating: 88.6 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Awaken as a vampire.
Dragon Warrior VII
Released: Aug 26, 2000
Critic rating: 80.3 / 100 • 21 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation
Game modes: Single player
Dragon Quest VII is the seventh installment of the popular Dragon Quest series of role playing games and the first in the series to not be a part of a larger trilogy.
Marvel's Midnight Suns
Released: Dec 2, 2022
Critic rating: 85.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Tactical
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Marvel's Midnight Suns is a tactical role-playing game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games.
Metro: Last Light Redux
Released: Aug 26, 2014
Critic rating: 80.3 / 100 • 277 votes
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: Google Stadia, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Metro: Last Light Redux is the definitive version of the critically acclaimed ‘Metro: Last Light’, rebuilt in the latest and greatest iteration of the 4A Engine for Next Gen.
SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
Released: Apr 25, 2019
Critic rating: 79.9 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: Google Stadia, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
SteamWorld Quest is the roleplaying card game you’ve been waiting for!
The Witch's House
Released: Oct 3, 2012
Critic rating: 80.3 / 100 • 29 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
The Witch's House falls within the tradition of Japanese horror RPGs with heavy emphasis on puzzle-solving and jump scares.
Heroes of Might and Magic V
Released: May 16, 2006
Critic rating: 81.7 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Witness the amazing evolution of the genre-defining strategy game as it becomes a next-generation phenomenon, melding classic deep fantasy with next-generation visuals and gameplay.
HuniePop
Released: Jan 19, 2015
Critic rating: 82.5 / 100
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Indie, Visual Novel
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
HuniePop is a 2015 adult dating sim/match-3 puzzle game published and developed by HuniePot.
Live A Live
Released: Sep 2, 1994
Critic rating: 80.2 / 100 • 22 votes
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: Super Famicom
Game modes: Single player
Live A Live's story is split across seven seemingly unrelated chapters that can be played in any order, based on popular genres such as Western, science fiction, and mecha.
Monster Hunter Portable 3rd
Released: Dec 1, 2010
Critic rating: 80.2 / 100 • 21 votes
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: PlayStation Portable
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Monster Hunter Portable 3rd is a game in the Monster Hunter franchise for the PlayStation Portable system that was released in Japan on December 1, 2010.
Absolum
Released: Oct 9, 2025
Critic rating: 89.7 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Fighting, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Crafted with passion by the dream team that redefined side-scrolling beat 'em ups, Absolum mixes top-of-the-class combat action with modern roguelite elements, bringing all the vibes of the fantasy arcade hits of the past into an immersive adventure set in the original world of Talamh.
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny
Released: Mar 1, 1988
Critic rating: 80.2 / 100 • 21 votes
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: Sharp X68000, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Atari ST/STE, DOS, FM Towns, Amiga, Apple II
Game modes: Single player
After a century of relative peace, the Avatar of Virtue is summoned back to the medieval kingdom of Britannia to deal with a new threat: the usurper Lord Blackthorn, a formerly honorable nobleman who has been corrupted by strange new creatures called the Shadowlords.
Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past
Released: Feb 7, 2013
Critic rating: 80.5 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS
Game modes: Single player
Travel to the past to save the present in this classic Dragon Quest adventure that has been completely remade from the ground up for Nintendo 3DS.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Released: Aug 23, 2016
Critic rating: 82.9 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided directly follows the aftermath of the Aug Incident, a day when mechanically augmented citizens all over the world were stripped of control over their minds and bodies, resulting in the deaths of millions of innocents.
Ingress
Released: Oct 30, 2013
Critic rating: 96.0 / 100
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Tactical, Adventure
Platforms: Android, iOS
Game modes: Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Ingress is an augmented reality massively multiplayer online role playing GPS-dependent game created by Niantic Labs, a startup within Google, originally for Android devices, and since July 14, 2014 for Apple's iOS.
Remnant II
Released: Jul 25, 2023
Critic rating: 83.5 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Remnant II is the sequel to the best-selling game Remnant: From the Ashes that pits survivors of humanity against new deadly creatures and god-like bosses across terrifying worlds.
Gnosia
Released: Jun 20, 2019
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie, Visual Novel
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Gnosia is a Sci-Fi Social Deduction RPG in which you will engage in discussion with a variety of unique characters, with the aim of identifying the Gnosia among the group.