Best RPG Games
1,761 RPG games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
Grandia II
Released: Aug 3, 2000
Critic rating: 74.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Dreamcast, PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
Grandia 2 is a 3D RPG, viewed from a top-down perspective for most of the game and a 3rd person view during battle.
Dragon Quest Heroes II
Released: May 27, 2016
Critic rating: 81.9 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation Vita
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
"DRAGON QUEST HEROES II is a hack-and-slash, field-roaming Action RPG that sends players on a new adventure to restore order in a once peaceful world filled with hordes of monsters and battles of epic proportions.
Cultist Simulator
Released: May 31, 2018
Critic rating: 85.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Adventure, Indie, Card & Board Game
Platforms: Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Game modes: Single player
Seize forbidden treasures.
Mutazione
Released: Sep 19, 2019
Critic rating: 90.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Point-and-click, Music, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Mutazione is a adventure exploration video game set on an island where the player tends to the local gardens and learns more about the town's people.
Tales of Xillia
Released: Sep 8, 2011
Critic rating: 76.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: PlayStation 3
Game modes: Single player, Co-operative
Tales of Xillia follows Jude Mathis, a clever medical student attending school in the capital city, and Milla Maxwell, a mysterious woman accompanied by four unseen beings.
The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales
Released: Jun 22, 2023
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
The Bookwalker is a narrative adventure where you play as Etienne Quist, a writer-turned-thief with the ability to dive into books.
Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom
Released: Apr 21, 1990
Critic rating: 77.1 / 100 • 21 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: Linux, Wii, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Just as you’re about to marry Maia, the mysterious woman you found on the shore, a winged dragon grabs her and disappears.
Yakuza
Released: Dec 8, 2005
Critic rating: 76.7 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Fighting, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Sport, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
Just as Kazuma, a former rising star in the Yakuza, emerges from prison after a murder cover-up, 10 billion yen vanishes from the Yakuza vault, forcing him once again into their brutal, lawless world.
Timespinner
Released: Sep 25, 2018
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Timespinner is a 2D metroidvania platformer about a young woman who travels through time to destroy the empire that killed her family.
Final Fantasy XIII
Released: Dec 17, 2009
Critic rating: 81.4 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player
Final Fantasy XIII is a single-player Japanese role-playing game and the thirteenth main entry in the Final Fantasy series.
Skylanders: Trap Team
Released: Sep 30, 2014
Critic rating: 79.5 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii, Android, iOS, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
In Skylanders Trap Team, Kaos continues his ongoing quest to rule over Skylands.
Curse of the Dead Gods
Released: Feb 23, 2021
Critic rating: 84.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
You seek untold riches, eternal life, divine powers - it leads to this accursed temple, a seemingly-infinite labyrinth of bottomless pits, deadly traps, and monsters.
Project: Gorgon
Released: Jan 28, 2026
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Project: Gorgon is an indie 3D Fantasy MMORPG that focuses on player exploration and discovery.
Toontown Online
Released: Jun 2, 2003
Critic rating: 76.9 / 100 • 26 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Toontown Online was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, developed by Disney Interactive and published by the Walt Disney Company.
Trials of Mana
Released: Apr 24, 2020
Critic rating: 77.9 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Trials of Mana is a full high definition remake of the third entry in the Mana series, previously exclusively released in Japan in 1995 as Seiken Densetsu 3.
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
Released: Oct 28, 2010
Critic rating: 83.8 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player
After going dark six years ago, 2010 will see a new dawn.
Guild Wars 2
Released: Aug 25, 2012
Critic rating: 73.8 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Guild Wars 2 is an online role-playing game with fast-paced action combat, a rich and detailed universe of stories, awe-inspiring landscapes to explore, two challenging player vs.
Suikoden Tierkreis
Released: Dec 18, 2008
Critic rating: 76.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player
Suikoden: Tierkreis is the latest iteration of the popular RPG franchise that was introduced more than 12 years ago.
Gauntlet Legends
Released: Oct 1, 1998
Critic rating: 76.9 / 100 • 21 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Platforms: Arcade
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
Gauntlet Legends is an arcade game released in 1998 by Atari Games.
Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below
Released: Feb 26, 2015
Critic rating: 78.1 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
In Dragon Quest Heroes, the protagonists must rise up against insurmountable odds, challenging swarms of enemies and conquering gigantic monsters in an exhilarating action game.
Pokémon Violet
Released: Nov 18, 2022
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Catch, battle, and train Pokémon in the Paldea Region, a vast land filled with lakes, towering peaks, wastelands, small towns, and sprawling cities.
The Sims 3: Seasons
Released: Nov 13, 2012
Critic rating: 83.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
All-new activities, like soccer, big seasonal festivals, and celebrations, bring the spirit of each season to life in The Sims 3: Seasons.
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Released: Feb 13, 2024
Critic rating: 78.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player
Hunt ghosts as two memorable characters in a story-driven Action-RPG where your decisions carry dramatic consequences.
Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide
Released: Oct 23, 2015
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Vermintide is a co-operative action first person shooter and melee combat adventure set in the End Times of the iconic Warhammer Fantasy universe.
Gems of War
Released: Nov 19, 2014
Critic rating: 76.8 / 100 • 28 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
From the creators of Puzzle Quest, play the new Puzzle/RPG/Strategy mash-up, GEMS OF WAR!