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1861 RPG games reviewed and scored, best first.
1861 reviews
An open-world monster-taming RPG whose fusion system — combining any two monster forms into a unique creature with its own hand-drawn sprite — has become its signature achievement, built by a two-person team and beloved for exactly that kind of ambition.
8 / 10
A 2008 co-op beat-'em-up that Steam still rates Overwhelmingly Positive across over 109,000 reviews, and one that its own developer is still actively expanding — new paid DLC arrived in August 2025, seventeen years after launch, to a mix of genuine celebration and a specific, detailed complaint from a nearly 8,000-hour veteran about changes to combat mechanics nobody asked for.
8 / 10
A 16-bit-style JRPG built almost entirely by one developer over seven years, whose real achievement isn't the pixel art but a heat-gauge combat system that replaces MP attrition with active turn-by-turn risk management.
8 / 10
Zeus Needs A Mech Pilot, And Only You Will Do Chronos Trap in Time is a $12.99 vertical shoot-em-up roguelite from Swedish studio SCS Ogonvard AB, released clean on Steam on March
8 / 10
A visually spectacular sequel to a beloved mobile-turned-PC crafting RPG that Butterscotch Shenanigans has supported with an unusually relentless year of updates, held back at launch by mobile-first controls and a text-heavy script that its own most detailed critics — many of them the original's biggest fans — argue buried the sequel's real improvements.
8 / 10
A genre-defining rhythm-roguelike hybrid, Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 23,000 reviews, whose own Steam achievement data confirms exactly the kind of brutal difficulty wall a decade of players have described — only 7.8 percent of tracked players ever finish Zone 4.
8 / 10
A spearfishing roguelite and a sushi restaurant manager share one save file, and the join is the best thing about it — what you catch by day is what you sell by night. The game just won't stop adding new systems on top of that, long after the core two have proven they didn't need the help.
8 / 10
The first and, still, only video game built on Pathfinder Second Edition's actual rules, praised near-unanimously by tabletop fans for its combat fidelity and let down mainly by a short base campaign gated behind paid story DLC and writing that can't match its mechanical accuracy.
8 / 10
A short, atmospheric horror-tinged turn-based JRPG in which you play a resurrected skeleton named Hudson deciding whether to terrorize or redeem a haunted town, praised almost unanimously for its worldbuilding, choice-driven story, and RPG Maker polish, if a touch slight in its combat and engine ambitions.
8 / 10
A fishing-and-exploration horror hybrid that reviewers rate Overwhelmingly Positive and keep recommending anyway, even while its single loudest, most consistent critique — a spectacular opening that the game never quite develops — shows up inside a striking share of its own five-star reviews.
8 / 10
A fast, snappy Wizardry-meets-Final-Fantasy-V dungeon crawler that reviewers overwhelmingly love for its job-mastery system and lean, no-nonsense design, tempered by a punishing late-game death penalty and a handful of balance and interface rough edges.
8 / 10
A Zelda-shaped action-RPG about dungeon crawling as an extreme sport, set in a magical-realist Austrian ski resort where the real hook is who you meet between dungeons, not what you fight inside them.
8 / 10
A genuine, widely-acclaimed reinvention of KOEI TECMO's long-running hack-and-slash series — praised by veteran fans as the best entry in over a decade for its overhauled combat — built around a deliberate, controversial trade-off that a large share of the same fanbase argues cost the series something real: a single silent protagonist replacing the roster of dozens of playable historical officers, and a story that stops at the Battle of Chibi, leaving half the classic Three Kingdoms tale untold at launch.
8 / 10
A solo-developed turn-based RPG with 133 achievements, a monster-catching system and genuinely deep combat — 98.9% positive, and its handful of critics almost all say the same thing: it's the fourth game again.
8 / 10
A single-shard spaceship MMO where losses are permanent, the economy is entirely player-built, and your character keeps training on a real-world clock whether you're logged in or not. Twenty-three years old, recently rebranded by its own studio, and still the sharpest argument in the genre for why risk has to be real to mean anything.
8 / 10
A live-action FMV thriller about a young woman avenging her sister's disappearance after years of school bullying and institutional cover-up, drawing a Very Positive reception across over a thousand reviews for its production values, tense branching structure and detective-style investigation mechanics, tempered by a short seventh chapter, some overly-guided decision-making, and a public post-launch announcement that its production studio has disbanded.
8 / 10
A pixel-art farming and life-sim RPG that spent two years in Early Access proving it isn't just another Stardew Valley clone — jumping, real combat, D&D nights at the tavern, and writing sharp enough to win over players who'd sworn off the genre — reviewed on the eve of its 1.0 launch with 97.7% of nearly 30,000 reviews already behind it.
8 / 10
The second act of the Remake trilogy trades Midgar's corridors for open regions, a deep Synergy-and-Folio combat system and a genuinely excellent card game — then buries a chunk of it under checklist busywork and a PC port that still stutters a year on.
8 / 10
A spectacular retelling of the first five hours of a 1997 classic, stretched to forty — and a PC port whose launch grievances have quietly been fixed while the argument about the story hasn't gone anywhere.
8 / 10
A cozy, cleverly designed hybrid of hex-tile puzzle gameplay and visual novel storytelling, where reading customers' souls to guide their fates produces genuinely meaningful choices, branching endings, and a "soulpunk" world reviewers found surprisingly deep, undercut only by lingering bugs and one frustrating puzzle-RNG content gate.
8 / 10
A turn-based tactical RPG where you crew a living tank with a village of orphaned animal children, and where losing a boss fight can mean feeding one of them into a cannon — a war-is-hell premise this review's negative sample barely challenges, since only 5 of the game's 384 reviews are negative at all.
8 / 10
The free open world is good enough to carry a full-price game on its own — climbing, gliding and elemental combat form one of the best traversal systems in the genre. What you pay for is everything above the story campaign, and the review is really about where that line sits.
8 / 10
A comedic, Battle Brothers-inspired turn-based tactical RPG about a disposable band of goblin mercenaries, whose whimsical humour and genuinely deep systemic strategy have earned it a small but extraordinarily devoted following, including players logging well over a thousand hours.
8 / 10
A faithful, expanded rebuild of one of open-world RPG history's most influential games — the 2001 original that reviewers credit as a direct forerunner to The Witcher — that returned to the Colony to Very Positive reception and 500,000 copies sold, undercut at launch by genuine, severe bugs and softlocks that the developer has since addressed through a rapid, transparent patch cadence.
8 / 10
