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353 RPG games reviewed and scored, best first.
353 reviews
An idle horde-survival RPG with a genuinely distinctive structure — a defined ending rather than an endless grind — undercut for a meaningful share of players by scripted, low-choice progression, a "no offline progress" design that sits oddly for an idle game, and a pattern of developer replies to negative reviews that multiple players independently describe as combative.
6 / 10
An unabashed Ragnarok Online homage with seven classes, thirty maps and a community that loves it. Its Early Access launch also spent a fortnight with the servers falling over and player trading switched off entirely after dupers took the marketplace.
6 / 10
A genuinely pretty, systems-rich cozy farming life-sim whose Early Access launch was overshadowed by a real corporate-backing revelation, a suspected fake-review campaign, and a broken promise about paid content — a case where the discourse around the game may matter as much to a buyer as the game itself.
6 / 10
A sixteen-year-old free-to-play space MMO whose combat has genuinely few peers, and whose own negative Steam reviews come overwhelmingly from thousand-hour veterans turning against its lockbox monetisation rather than from players bouncing off it early.
6 / 10
A farming sim with classes, magic and dragons, sold for twelve dollars with a hundred and seventy-four dollars of DLC behind it. Its recent reviews have collapsed to 74% — and most of them aren't about the farming.
6 / 10
A free auto-battler RPG that runs as a tiny window pinned to your taskbar, built on a six-class roster and a stack-nine-to-rank-up loot system — undercut by a storefront that sells two more classes and the extra bag space its own item design is engineered to demand.
6 / 10
A free idle RPG that lives in your taskbar became a genuine phenomenon — peaking at over 360,000 concurrent players, briefly outranking everything on Steam except Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 — before its own server infrastructure buckled under that success and started eating players' item collections.
6 / 10
A voxel-building MMO welded to an ARPG loot treadmill, still running eleven years after Trion Worlds made it and three community letters a month after gamigo took over. The question in 2026 isn't whether Trove survives — it clearly does — it's how much of it is still a game and how much is a storefront.
6 / 10
Sixteen years on, Vindictus still has the best melee combat any free-to-play MMO has ever shipped — and a progression system that now fast-forwards you past almost every reason to use it. Nexon is still updating it monthly in 2026, which makes the state of the middle game harder to explain, not easier.
6 / 10
A solo-developed RTS that lets you drop out of the top-down view and fight alongside your army as a third-person hero unit — a genuinely distinctive hook undercut by a campaign that arrived late in development and a handful of real, independently reported bugs.
6 / 10
A CryEngine action RPG that scrapped fixed classes for a rotating passive wheel anyone can bend around any weapon — undone at launch by a server collapse that ate people's characters, and undone for good in September 2024 when the studio switched the multiplayer off forever.
6 / 10
A ten-dollar guild-management tactics RPG with a genuinely clever idea — your weapon determines your class — sitting behind a 90% Steam rating that doesn't survive close inspection. The game is decent. The review page is the story.
6 / 10
A technically polished remake of a beloved Yakuza entry, bundled with a well-regarded new prequel chapter, whose Mixed reception is driven by two distinct and separately documented problems — substantial cuts to the original's beloved side content, and a genuine, well-sourced controversy over the studio's decision to recast a character using an actor who has admitted to sexual misconduct, despite a sustained fan campaign asking them not to.
6 / 10
A free-to-play, Clicker Heroes-style idle mining game from a solo developer, split almost exactly down the middle — praised for being addictive and free, criticised by several independent reviewers for a progression curve that breaks within the first hour.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely well-realised Westeros action RPG — strong voice acting, a story that respects its source lore, and combat reviewers compare favourably to Assassin's Creed Odyssey — buried under monetisation so aggressive that a meaningful majority of even sympathetic reviewers describe it as the single thing actively ruining the game, right down to a pay-to-revive prompt at the moment of death.
5.5 / 10
An idle incremental RPG wrapped around a genuinely creepy generational-horror premise — die, pass your DNA to the next generation, grow stronger, discover who's really benefiting — undercut by a specific, well-corroborated complaint from two independent reviewers that the core power fantasy runs backwards.
5.5 / 10
The mobile half of a decade-old hero-collector empire, reviewed under the name it actually ships with today — a competent auto-battler with a genuinely flexible manual/auto combat switch, buried under the industry's most notorious ad campaign and a monetisation stack that never really lets up.
5.5 / 10
One entry in a whole shelf of near-identical cheap idle RPGs from the same solo developer, with genuine long-term depth for players who push through — and a first hour so poorly explained that one reviewer called it "the easiest refund of my life."
5.5 / 10
A cheap Melvor-style idle RPG whose worker-automation system is a genuine bright spot, undercut by additive scaling that stalls progress hard past the opening days and by flavour text several players independently flag as AI-written.
5.5 / 10
A pixel-art village-builder that wants to be an idle game and a management sim at once, and spends its first year of updates finding out how hard it is to be both without either side suffering.
5.5 / 10
A long-running idle RPG about a monster-forest slime clan grinding gear and dungeons, still pulling ten million-plus downloads years after launch — undercut lately by an ad frequency its own players say has quietly gotten much worse.
5.5 / 10
Nexon's eight-year-old mobile MapleStory arrived on Steam in March 2026 with crossplay, a new job and a Mostly Negative rating. Underneath the port complaints is a more interesting game than its reviews suggest — an idle MMO whose central resource, auto-battle time, is metered at two free hours a day and sold for premium currency after that.
5.5 / 10
A one-developer idle RPG that hides a genuinely dense passive-perk tree and a town worth automating behind a rough Android build that still crashes for some players seven years after its first prototype.
5.5 / 10
A nostalgic mobile spin on Ragnarok Online's class fantasy, undercut by the one thing an idle game can least afford to paywall — the automation itself.
5.5 / 10
