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1861 reviews
A snowboarding bullet-heaven survivors-like that buries players under swarms of robots and skeletons while they carve down a mountain landing tricks for healing, winning near-unanimous praise for its chaotic energy and rave-inspired soundtrack, even though a near-total lack of tutorial and instructions leaves new players guessing at basic controls.
7.5 / 10
inkle's interactive gamebook adaptation takes a radical structural swing for its third entry, trading the series' linear branching for an open, dual-timeline world to explore — passionately praised by most as the series' high point, and just as passionately picked apart by a detailed dissenting review calling the same redesign tedious and poorly implemented.
7.5 / 10
A faithful, HD-2D remake of the 1998 fan-favourite that reviewers rate Very Positive and trending upward two years on, built around genuinely praised character writing and a deep private-action system, dragged down by companion AI complaints, an always-online requirement and a handful of specific, documented localisation changes from the Japanese original.
7.5 / 10
Eight fully voice-acted BioWare RPGs wearing an MMO's clothing, fifteen years on and still the best argument for that structure the genre has ever produced. Reviewed with Update 7.9 "Legacy Reborn" current and 8.0 on the public test server.
7.5 / 10
An auto-battler where you never touch the character directly, animated entirely in ASCII art, and built around Stonescript — a real scripting language for programming your own companion's combat behaviour instead of just watching it fight.
7.5 / 10
From White Belt To World Champion, One Turn At A Time Submission Saga: The Jiu Jitsu RPG is a $9.99 solo-developer project from Nate Markham that bills itself, plausibly, as the fi
7.5 / 10
A weekly card draw from a mad ruler turns resource management into a genuinely dreadful moral gauntlet, and the concept is original enough that it sold a million copies and won an Indie Game of the Year award — set against a translation its own English-speaking audience has been calling unacceptable for over a year, and a loop that a large share of veteran reviewers say goes stale on repeat playthroughs.
7.5 / 10
A pixel-art roguelike duel game that fuses card-based deckbuilding with auto-battler positioning around a single risky idea — every summon draws against an energy cap, and overshooting it triggers backlash against you rather than your opponent.
7.5 / 10
A tactical fantasy co-op RPG built to replace board game night, with a genuinely standout value proposition — one copy covers a whole group of four — undercut for a large share of its own reviewers by a mandatory phone-as-controller scheme that several report they couldn't avoid even playing solo.
7.5 / 10
A shipwrecked hero levels up by winning minigames, not by clicking through menus. SoulGame Studio's sequel to its cult flash hit turns stat training into the whole game, and that idea is both the best and most exhausting thing about it.
7.5 / 10
An RPG Maker-built spiritual successor to Ogre Battle and Fire Emblem with genuinely excellent squad-tactics combat -- undercut, by its own fans' repeated admission, by a story its own community tags call "Story Rich" and its own review corpus calls the weakest part of the game.
7.5 / 10
Square Enix's remaster of a genre-defining 1995 tactical RPG splits its own most invested fans down the middle — the presentation, voice work and orchestration draw near-unanimous praise, while the specific gameplay changes to levelling, permadeath and the class system have produced some of the most detailed, dug-in disagreement this library has read on any remaster.
7.5 / 10
A first-person open-world RPG built openly in the shape of Skyrim, but set in a bleaker, more literary Arthurian world where night itself turns hostile — ambitious, well-written and visibly under-budgeted in the faces of the people telling its story.
7.5 / 10
A beloved 2008 JRPG finally reaching PC for the first time as a 10th-anniversary complete edition, widely regarded as one of the finest entries in the Tales series — undercut by a well-documented, years-old bug that can strip away the ability to save mid-dungeon.
7.5 / 10
Tearscape is a $10.49 top-down action RPG from NERDS TAKE OVER that wears its influences proudly: Game Boy Color-era Zelda games on the exploration side, Bloodborne and the broader
7.5 / 10
A gorgeously art-directed Viking tactical RPG whose story and presentation draw near-universal praise even from critical reviewers — undercut by a specific, mechanically precise complaint that recurs across a full decade: the combat's action-economy design makes injuring and sparing enemies the optimal strategy, so killing them is often actively punished.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely alien, atmospheric open-world RPG that Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 22,000 reviews largely on the strength of its world design — and one whose own most devoted fans openly debate whether its RNG-based combat and journal-only quest tracking have aged into charm or into a real barrier depending on who's asking.
7.5 / 10
Twelve years and eight chapters after launch, The Elder Scrolls Online still lets you start anywhere and stay relevant everywhere. Level scaling bought that freedom; the trade-off is a levelling arc with no real stakes and a monetisation model dense enough to need a spreadsheet. Reviewed with Season One: Return of the Thieves Guild live.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely excellent Soulslike with combat this library ranks among the best it's reviewed, one of the best-implemented easy modes in the genre, and a back half that a large share of its own fans say buckles into damage-sponge repetition — complicated further by a limited-time exclusive-content controversy, a Denuvo addition over a year after launch, and reports its own development team was restructured following disappointing sales.
7.5 / 10
A soft-reboot entry point into Nihon Falcom's long-running Trails series, praised by newcomers and veterans alike for its new protagonist and combat, with a genuine, well-documented localisation dispute — multiple independent reviewers report English subtitles diverging from the original Japanese dialogue — that this review reports factually rather than adjudicates.
7.5 / 10
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A narrative RPG that plays out across a lifetime, from birth to death, built around a genuinely subversive idea — your choices are gated by the stats your earlier choices built, whether or not that matches how you actually want to roleplay — that reviewers alternately praise as a brilliant deconstruction of choice-based storytelling and criticise as breaking the promise of meaningful choice altogether.
7.5 / 10
Theralite is DualBitz's turn-based sci-fi mining roguelike about digging as deep as you dare into a distant planet's crystal mines, and this review's unanimously positive sample, corroborated by a genuinely low achievement-completion curve, confirms a small, tightly-built, deliberately brutal roguelike that rewards patience and punishes greed.
7.5 / 10
A base-building, Factorio-flavoured action RPG that launched in October 2021 to strong acclaim, then spent nearly four years failing to deliver a promised co-op mode -- and finally did, in August 2025, bundled with a loot rework substantial enough to spark a fresh wave of complaints from the veterans who'd waited for it.
7.5 / 10
Liu Bei as a Puppet Ruler, Not a Destined Hero The Three Kingdoms of Shadows: Xuzhou reframes a familiar chapter of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms around a specific, cynical pre
7.5 / 10
