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1861 RPG games reviewed and scored, best first.
1861 reviews
A short, densely written dystopian cyberpunk walking-puzzle in which you have no voice of your own and must survive by collecting and repeating other people's words back at them, praised almost unanimously for its bleak wit and world-building and criticised by a smaller group for opaque, punishing dialogue-choice puzzles.
7.5 / 10
A well-regarded, combat-focused Infinity Engine classic that reviewers consistently frame as the weaker sibling of Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment on story and characters — a stable complaint across a full decade — alongside a recurring multiplayer connectivity bug and some criticism of Beamdog's own Enhanced Edition script changes.
7.5 / 10
A side-scrolling idle RPG that dares to make its active layer matter — timing jumps through coin trails pays out far more than watching the run play itself, right up until the moment you close the app and the game quietly goes back to being a spreadsheet.
7.5 / 10
A 2019 Steam idle-RPG where the class you pick isn't a build for life — it's a costume you're expected to change every run, and the game is built to make that swapping the whole point.
7.5 / 10
A short, Disco Elysium-inspired first-person narrative RPG about an amnesiac stranger navigating a genetically engineered insect-human city, praised for its writing and world-building but capped by a deliberately brief, low-stakes structure that leaves some players wanting more.
7.5 / 10
SUPERita's solo debut turns the incremental genre inside out — instead of walking away and letting numbers climb, you're stuck in a shrinking arena with a collapsing ceiling, spending loot on a talent tree and four companions between waves of monsters guarding a dragon's lair.
7.5 / 10
A solo-developed dungeon-crawling RPG about a captured human building trust within a monster camp, praised for real crafting depth and heartfelt writing — its genuine launch-era friction (dark caves, a weak AI companion, punishing softlocks) has been directly and repeatedly addressed across one of the longest, most actively sustained patch cycles this lane has documented.
7.5 / 10
The first genuine successor to a beloved 1999 tactics classic in over two decades — a competent, often very good mercenary squad RPG that a vocal share of the original's veteran fanbase says simplified too much of what made Jagged Alliance 2 legendary.
7.5 / 10
A NZ$7.39 solo-developed incremental auto-battler about a necromancer smashing 99 walls — Very Positive across 911 reviews, and honest about being "Active Incremental" even though Steam's own Idler tag oversells how passive it is. The build freedom the store promises is real, but a full-respec-only skill tree with no saved loadouts turns a lot of that freedom into manual busywork, and the solo developer's patch trail goes quiet in May 2025.
7.5 / 10
A solo-developed, dice-based RPG that wears its Disco Elysium and Citizen Sleeper influences openly while carving out its own surreal identity, landing a rare unanimous "Very Positive" launch sample split only on whether its short runtime is a strength or a shortfall.
7.5 / 10
An Early Access survival shooter that blends looter-shooter loot systems with flexible tower defence, tasking you with defending a rocket project against zombie hordes during an acid rain apocalypse, drawing an early Very Positive reception for its layered base-building and mercenary systems, tempered by one detailed critical account calling out weak enemy AI and low-effort tutorial art.
7.5 / 10
A squad-based open-world RPG with no main quest, no level cap on how far you can fall, and an engine that has been fighting its own interface since a Steam Early Access launch in March 2013 — five and a half years before the "release date" most storefronts show. Its systemic freedom is genuinely unmatched; its performance and UI never caught up to the ambition.
7.5 / 10
An ambitious, unusually grounded medieval RPG whose historical immersion and storytelling are still praised even by its harshest critics — undercut by a combat system reviewers say only really works one-on-one, persistent bugs eight years on, and two fresh 2026 controversies: a retroactive EULA change requiring a third-party account, and an allegation that Warhorse replaced a human translator with AI.
7.5 / 10
A deep, puzzle-filled dungeon crawler built around a widely praised 12-character turn-based combat system that has produced some of the most extreme playtime devotion this review has seen, whose developer visibly reversed a controversial mid-game difficulty change after direct community backlash, undercut by a specific, repeated performance complaint even in a largely 2D game.
7.5 / 10
Read review of Labyrinth of Touhou Tri -The Dreaming Girls & The Mysterious Orbs-
A grid-based dungeon crawler built as a direct, loving homage to 90s Might & Magic and Wizardry, rated Very Positive by a small but near-unanimous review base that mostly agrees on one thing — it's an improved version of its own predecessor rather than a bold step forward.
7.5 / 10
A first-person idle dungeon crawler that sells you the whole game once, then gets out of the way — its classless skill system and guild-building give it real depth, even if its offline expeditions undersell the "idle" in the title.
7.5 / 10
A six-month side story that began life as DLC for Infinite Wealth and still plays like one in places, following Kazuma Kiryu through his faked-death years under the alias Joryu. The brawling and the finale land; the padding in between and a price tag built for a longer game are the recurring complaints from its own audience.
7.5 / 10
Read review of Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
RGG Studio's dual-protagonist send-off for Kazuma Kiryu and showcase for Ichiban Kasuga is the best-reviewed game the series has ever made by critics, and Very Positive on Steam besides — but its own launch was defined almost as much by locking New Game+ and postgame content behind paid DLC editions, a decision even one of the game's own voice actors publicly condemned.
7.5 / 10
A free turn-based RPG built from world literature, run on a coin flip, updated every fortnight for three and a half years — and criticised almost exclusively by people with two hundred hours in it.
7.5 / 10
A five-dollar semi-idle RPG that sends three-adventurer teams into dungeons on their own while you sort, salvage and re-gear what they drag back — and a look at whether that loop still has somewhere to go once the opening classes stop being new.
7.5 / 10
Twenty-two years before "life-skill game" became a genre, Mabinogi built one — a rank-based skill system and an ageing/rebirth loop that still let a character who never fights become a genuinely finished build, currently mid-transplant into a new Unreal Engine 5 body.
7.5 / 10
A mobile adaptation of Nexon's beloved 2004 PC MMORPG that went from a widely mocked teaser trailer to South Korea's Game of the Year, largely on the strength of a monetisation model its own audience specifically praised for restraint — not yet available in English.
7.5 / 10
A free, deliberately one-hour incremental game about training a commoner into a master archer, honest about its own scope and warmly received for it, though its own audience is split on whether an incremental game should ever have a definite ending.
7.5 / 10
A one-person, text-first incremental about running a school of wizards that keeps almost everything on a single screen of menus, and turns dying to a boss into the moment its retirement system finally starts paying off.
7.5 / 10
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