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787 RPG games reviewed and scored, best first.
787 reviews
Kopla Games' minimalist auto-run dungeon crawler grew a sequel's worth of heroes, guilds and elemental gear over seven years of live support, and the one thing that didn't survive the expansion is the thing its name promised.
6.5 / 10
A medieval colony sim that pitches itself as Crusader Kings' court intrigue crossed with RimWorld's colonist simulation -- a genuinely funny, genuinely ambitious generator of noble-house disasters, still rough enough after two years in Early Access that plenty of its own fans are telling each other to wait.
6.5 / 10
An XCOM-style Viking tactics RPG with genuinely praised writing that launched in a technical state its own reviewers compared to Early Access — and has spent the months since visibly recovering as negative-review volume collapsed following a string of patches.
6.5 / 10
A sci-fi looter-shooter RPG that launched in April 2021 to a genuinely disastrous technical rollout, kept a real fanbase playing anyway on the strength of its gunplay, drew fresh backlash over a paid 2022 expansion, and ended with its own sequel cancelled after Square Enix and developer People Can Fly's relationship broke down entirely.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely uncompromising survival RPG that refuses to make its hero special — beloved by fans who click with that philosophy, and undercut for years by a specific, still-recurring bug that deletes players' backpacks along with everything inside them.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely inventive Peggle-meets-roguelike hybrid whose own fans keep landing on the same specific complaint — the PC price doesn't yet match the amount of content on offer, and the identical mobile version is consistently cited as the better deal.
6.5 / 10
The Phantom Thieves trade the Metaverse for a grid-based tactics spin-off, carrying over Baton Pass and weakness-exploiting combat into cover-based skirmishes. Sharp presentation and a near-unanimously praised soundtrack sit on top of a short campaign that most of its own reviewers say is priced for a much longer game.
6.5 / 10
A memory-match card grid wrapped around a genuine dungeon-crawling RPG — flip pairs to fight monsters, loot treasure and trigger traps, then take what survives back to a Guild hub to level a deck capped at eleven cards.
6.5 / 10
A one-day-old pixel RPG about a teenager who discovers psychic powers in a sleepy mountain town and enters a boss-only tournament with no map marker to guide him — a tight, five-dollar story built to finish in an afternoon, with zero Steam reviews yet to test the pitch.
6.5 / 10
One of the genre-founding MMORPGs, twenty-four years on — its job-class system and sprite-over-3D art style still influence the genre, but the official Steam client this review covers is closer to a nostalgia fossil than an actively thriving live service.
6.5 / 10
The most-mocked mobile game on the internet turns out to be running one of the deeper gear-optimisation systems in the genre underneath its meme reputation — the honest problem isn't that Raid is shallow, it's how much of your week the energy bar and the shard economy are willing to take.
6.5 / 10
A dark-fantasy SRPG that plays like Fire Emblem's positioning and team-attack system taken further, whose combat and soundtrack draw real praise from committed players — while a launch price its own reviewers called unjustifiable still shadows the game even after patches and a permanent, deep discount.
6.5 / 10
A Kickstarter-funded tactical RPG that blends turn-based combat, kingdom management and a visual-novel-style social system, praised almost everywhere for its writing and cast -- and dragged down consistently, across nearly a decade of reviews, by crashes, harsh save limitations and RNG that a meaningful share of players call broken rather than merely unlucky.
6.5 / 10
A co-op PvE looter-shooter action RPG about squads of "Weavers" raiding hostile rifts for loot -- a Very Positive Early Access opener with a genuinely large review base, undercut for a vocal minority by an always-online requirement that costs solo players their progress on disconnect, and by a studio whose past Web3/NFT branding this review confirms is kept entirely separate from, and not required to play, the actual Steam game.
6.5 / 10
Reviewed the same day as its predecessor, this sequel trades Risen's dark, mystic fantasy world for a colonial pirate setting that a meaningful share of longtime fans describe as a worse, more streamlined direction — layered on top of a distinct, still-active crash bug tied to teleporting between towns, corroborated as recently as April 2026.
6.5 / 10
A faithful, genuinely loved power-fantasy shooter that nails what fans wanted from a RoboCop game, undermined by a chronic crash-and-corrupted-save problem that hasn't faded with age the way launch bugs usually do, compounded by publisher Nacon's real 2026 insolvency filing.
6.5 / 10
A Melvor-flavoured skilling idler with eighteen skills and a collection log, sold as a clean one-time purchase — but a boost mechanic that gates achievements and a rocky launch identity crisis keep it from matching the game everyone will compare it to.
6.5 / 10
A long-awaited Western release for a beloved PSP tactics duology, rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5 — genuinely treasured by the fans who've waited seventeen years for it, and genuinely undercut for newcomers by aggressive upscaling artifacts and a control scheme that inherited its handheld-era clunkiness without ever being modernised.
6.5 / 10
The farming-RPG series' first fully 3D entry, loved by a devoted fanbase logging hundreds of hours -- while a wide, well-documented share of reviewers, including many of its own biggest fans, argue the jump to 3D cost the series more than it gained.
6.5 / 10
The third and final Harebrained Schemes Shadowrun tactical RPG, and the trilogy's most divisive entry — some players call it a masterpiece with a thousand-plus hours to back it up, others say the Matrix hacking minigame and murky pacing undo what Dragonfall got right.
6.5 / 10
The Kickstarter campaign that brought cyberpunk-meets-fantasy Shadowrun back to video games — a genuinely well-written tactical RPG that its own developer, and most of its fans, would go on to surpass twice over with the sequels it made possible.
6.5 / 10
A budget-priced, GUI-driven text adventure about a writer and his blind father moving into a small town with a Twin Peaks-shaped secret — long on atmosphere and prose, short on how much your choices actually change.
6.5 / 10
The idle RPG's grandparent, still running seventeen years on and still launching new worlds every few weeks — with a comic-fantasy charm that holds up and an economy built entirely around the moment a fresh leaderboard makes spending feel urgent.
6.5 / 10
A pixel-art idle RPG roguelite designed to run in a tiny window tucked in the corner of your screen, genuinely loved by a small audience for exactly that, undercut by a game-breaking item combo and over a year of near-silence from its two-person developer between updates.
6.5 / 10
