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1856 RPG games reviewed and scored, best first.
1856 reviews
A grid-free tactical auto-battler where a debut studio builds its progression entirely around unlocking a permanent roster of up to 40 voxel heroes across 90-plus numbered challenges — a real meta-progression system wearing a much busier genre label than its mechanics actually earn, checked against a launch weekend with zero player-count evidence either way.
6.5 / 10
A genre-defining, universally beloved CRPG whose Steam version has become genuinely unreliable on modern hardware — three-quarters of this review's negative sample cite crashes, the complaint has worsened every year since 2023 rather than fading, and 16 of 100 negative reviewers independently recommend buying the DRM-free GOG version instead.
6.5 / 10
BioWare builds its most mechanically confident combat in the series, then spends most of the RPG scaffolding around it — choice continuity, itemization, party structure — to do it, leaving a fun action game wearing a Dragon Age name plenty of longtime fans don't recognise.
6.5 / 10
Square Enix reimagines the 1988 foundation of the Erdrick Trilogy in the same painterly HD-2D style as Octopath Traveler, and its reception splits in an unusual direction — English-speaking Steam reviewers are Very Positive at 91%, while the game's own Japanese-language reviews sit at a genuinely Mixed 54%, a gap tied to a real, creator-acknowledged controversy over changes to the game's gender selection and character designs.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed "Path of Exile-lite" roguelite ARPG that draws genuine, detailed praise from veteran PoE players for capturing real build-crafting depth without the genre's usual time investment, undercut by rough English translation, visual-clutter performance issues, a restrictive two-skill-slot limit and thin endgame content.
6.5 / 10
Click to Kill, Click to Climb Duncrush strips the dungeon-crawling RPG down to its most basic verb: click on monsters until they die. The store page is upfront about that simplicit
6.5 / 10
The Fifth Entry in a Solo Dev's "24 Games in 24 Months" Project Dune Rancher is a first-person clicker-and-incremental game built around a single premise: a desert ra
6.5 / 10
A 4-player co-op action roguelike from Underground Cat that fuses Warcraft III defense-map DNA with survivors-style horde combat, earning a Very Positive launch reception for its build variety and co-op synergy, tempered by honest reviewer complaints about a stationary combat stance, heavy build-RNG, and AI-generated art and UI.
6.5 / 10
A beloved 2011 tower-defense action RPG, Very Positive across more than 12,000 reviews for its class-building depth — now in the middle of a genuinely unusual, developer-confirmed 2025-2026 revival, funded by a sudden wave of paid cosmetic DLC that a share of its original community says feels jarring against the game's original goodwill.
6.5 / 10
An old-school, first-person "dad-era" dungeon crawler from Dalex Software Planning, Positive across 11 English reviews for its deepening dungeon design and satisfying combat, with a fair, widely repeated complaint that its confusing map makes basic navigation a genuine chore.
6.5 / 10
A Dungeon Keeper-inspired dungeon-management strategy RPG that has held Very Positive across roughly 12,600 Steam reviews since October 2017 — genuinely funny and frequently deep-discounted, but sitting under a persistent "repetitive and shallow next to the games it's imitating" complaint, plus a years-old camera-zoom gripe the reviews themselves can't agree is even still a problem.
6.5 / 10
A co-op fantasy action-RPG that opened Early Access to a rare thing in this library — a completely unanimous English review sample. Every review so far is short, enthusiastic, and upfront that it's judging a promise more than a finished game.
6.5 / 10
A genuine early-2000s hack-and-slash classic whose Steam release is missing real, checkable content from the original 2002 game — multiplayer, the ending cutscene, and the Legends of Aranna expansion are all absent by default — a severe, well-corroborated product-completeness problem this review found reported consistently from 2015 through 2026.
6.5 / 10
A grotesque, wonderfully strange PS1-horror-flavoured roguelike dungeon crawler with one of the most original mechanics in the genre this year — undercut hard by a long list of crashes, save corruption and frame-rate collapses that its solo developer left largely unaddressed for a year and a half.
6.5 / 10
A once-a-day extraction roguelike from Funtime Electrics that limits every character to a single dungeon delve per real-world day, Positive across 24 English reviews for its charming, BBS-door-game-inspired hook, with a fair, widely repeated complaint that its content runs out after a week or two.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed, hand-painted action RPG whose art and heart earned it Overwhelmingly Positive status across more than 14,000 reviews — while a remarkably consistent decade-plus of criticism argues its combat never grows past its opening hours and its dialogue keeps interrupting the action it's supposed to be delivering.
6.5 / 10
A Sword Art Online action RPG that finally lets you build a hero of your own inside Aincrad, with tight Souls-inflected combat and a genuinely sharp partner-synergy system — undercut by a linear, quest-marker world and a $69.99 asking price that assumes you'll buy back in for the DLC.
6.5 / 10
A spellcrafting action-RPG roguelite from Borealys Games, spun off from their 2019 action-adventure Mages of Mystralia -- gorgeous, ambitious, and Very Positive on Steam, but carrying a large, detailed, high-vote-count minority of reviews describing brutal early balance that undercuts its own centrepiece spell-crafting system.
6.5 / 10
A charming, town-building prequel built to bridge Suikoden fans to the crowdfunded Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes -- loved for its characters and world, but honest with itself about being, structurally, a fetch-quest and material-farming loop dressed up as an action RPG.
6.5 / 10
A fantasy idle RPG that lets players command up to five independently-levelling heroes across shared gathering, crafting and dungeon systems that keep progressing while offline, drawing a small early reception comparing it favourably to Melvor Idle, tempered by a rocky release week that included a major cloud/local save-sync bug the developer patched within roughly 24 hours.
6.5 / 10
A well-built, DOS-throwback pixel RPG with real depth in its itemisation, pets and seasonal PvP ladder — undercut by a name that promises more hands-off play than the loot management and battle caps actually deliver, according to its own most dedicated players.
6.5 / 10
The 2007 original that started Basilisk Games' beloved old-school CRPG trilogy, made permanently free for its tenth anniversary in 2017 — still praised by its current review sample for genuine turn-based depth, but undercut by a walking speed and a fixed 800x600 resolution that have aged far worse than the systems underneath them.
6.5 / 10
A Fifty-Fifth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review Eternal Levels launched on Steam on 28 August 2026, and at the time of writing it has zero user reviews. That's a meani
6.5 / 10
A mining-and-combat idle RPG, the follow-up to the popular browser game Haste-Miner 2, still running fresh monthly contests more than three years after launch — despite a prestige system some 2023-2024 reviewers say breaks the entire economy the moment you use it.
6.5 / 10
