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1856 RPG games reviewed and scored, best first.
1856 reviews
A free-to-play hybrid of idle progression and top-down action RPG shooting whose distinctive "active idle" design — punishing players for leaving it running unattended — earns it a genuinely loyal, extremely high-hour fanbase while alienating anyone who came looking for a conventional idler.
6.5 / 10
A free-to-play idle RPG that literally lives in your Windows taskbar, auto-battling and hatching monster eggs while you work -- notable for a genuinely non-predatory monetisation model (fixed-content passes, no real-money gacha) but launched 11 August 2026 to a Mixed reception, with a disclosed use of generative AI art drawing some of the pushback.
6.5 / 10
Game Dev Tycoon studio Greenheart Games spent roughly a decade building a storybook tavern-management sim with a genuinely funny, combative narrator, and while its charm and staff micromanagement win over the vast majority of its Early Access audience, a large and detailed share of players say the current build runs out of meaningful content and progression well before its five-star ambitions are realised.
6.5 / 10
HeroCraft's open-world pirate action RPG sets you loose across three continents of real-time sailing, ship-to-ship broadsides and kraken hunts. Nearly a decade after launch it's still a genuinely good naval combat sandbox wrapped around a shallow melee layer, patched through some real bugs, and increasingly interrupted by promotional pop-ups for HeroCraft's other games.
6.5 / 10
An open-world tactics RPG with a genuinely deterministic, no-RNG combat system and a disorienting hand-drawn map that some players call the point and others call the reason they quit — on top of a well-documented difficulty curve that punishes you for doing the normal RPG thing and leveling up.
6.5 / 10
A tactical co-op RPG built from the Descent board game's fantasy world, offering a genuinely enjoyable solo campaign with likeable characters and tight tactics, badly undercut at launch by a multiplayer mode plagued with desyncs, connection drops, and turn-blocking bugs.
6.5 / 10
One of the most beautiful cyberpunk worlds ever built, wrapped around bugs that delete your save — reported in 2021, still reported in 2026, with an announcement feed containing five years of sales and no patch notes.
6.5 / 10
A solo Finnish developer's family-friendly storybook RPG released on Steam yesterday — gentle turn-based dice combat, gnomes and fire foxes to free, a garden to tend, and a documented ascension from folk tale to playable systems — reviewed on launch-day evidence, with an achievement spread that resolves to roughly three reporting accounts.
6.5 / 10
A genre mashup its own fans call an "uncut diamond" — Fallout-flavoured post-apocalyptic exploration, Darkest Dungeon-style combat and a real card-battler deckbuilding layer — whose lifetime review score is dragged down mostly by complaints from over a year before its actual 1.0 release.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developer roguelite dungeon crawler that grew out of a beloved free Flash game — genuinely nostalgic and relaxing across a 94% Very Positive rating, though a consistent minority say the 100-floor climb flattens into repeating the same loop with bigger numbers long before the credits.
6.5 / 10
A time-loop mystery RPG expanded from an award-winning Skyrim mod into a full standalone release, Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 7,300 reviews for its ambitious premise and dialogue-driven investigation — undercut by a consistent backlash against its hype, thin walking-sim gameplay dressed as an RPG, dated production values, and a widely criticised "canon" ending that many reviewers feel undercuts the story it spent hours building.
6.5 / 10
An Eighteenth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review The Hushed Ledger released on Steam on 13 September 2026 and currently has zero Steam user reviews, extending an unbroken r
6.5 / 10
A choice-driven interactive fiction RPG told entirely through the pages of a turning book, following Karl von Aiden across five chapters, three routes and six ways to die — from a Chinese solo-scale studio, with AI-assisted CG art and full dual-language narration, and so far a launch nobody has reviewed.
6.5 / 10
A cozy idle RPG from solo developer vkaike2, casting the player as a brown shih tzu named Ramon searching for his missing friends, earning a Positive launch reception for its charm and developer responsiveness, tempered by one detailed reviewer's honest complaint that its resource chains are too indirect for either true idle or true hands-on play.
6.5 / 10
A Viking survival action-RPG from solo developer Never Say Never, Positive across a small English review sample for its dark, atmospheric Nordic setting and stable technical execution, tempered by fair complaints about dumb enemy AI and clunky combat.
6.5 / 10
The 13th entry in Nihon Falcom's long-running Trails series pairs a widely praised, technically excellent PC port with a genuinely split reception on pacing and writing among the exact veteran fanbase most qualified to judge it, compounded by specific removed anti-aliasing options, contested localisation quality, and a notable absence of the series' usual romance options.
6.5 / 10
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Dropped on an Island With a Pickaxe and a Dream The Lonely Miner's premise is as stripped-down as its title suggests: a lone prospector lands on an island with nothing but a pi
6.5 / 10
An Early Access idle ARPG where an uncapped, skill-based party grinds levels well past a thousand while you check in occasionally to manage gear, weight and hunger, praised by its tiny early review base for genuinely comfy, chill idling, but consistently undercut by reports of party pathfinding so rough that it can take a full minute just to hunt down a single deer.
6.5 / 10
A visually faithful Tolkien survival-crafting game whose negative sample is dominated by a genuine promise-versus-delivery gap — the store page promises resettling and restoring a thriving dwarven kingdom, but reviewers describe a mostly solitary escape through repetitive, procedurally generated tunnels that nobody ever comes to actually live in.
6.5 / 10
A Twenty-Seventh Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review The Quiet Below released on Steam on 5 September 2026 and has zero user reviews at the time of writing, extending this s
6.5 / 10
A solo/small-team pixel-art roguelike ARPG that opened to a torrent of goodwill in January 2025 -- same-day hotfixes, a warmly received early roadmap, comparisons to Octopath Traveler and Ragnarok Online -- and sustained nine months of real content updates before its news feed went quiet in October 2025, leaving a genuinely appealing but structurally shallow five-zone game that a growing number of 2026 reviews now call abandoned.
6.5 / 10
A charming Ace Attorney-style murder mystery visual novel built around VTuber culture that a small English-speaking audience loves outright, while a much larger Chinese-language sample raises real, repeated complaints about unfair deduction design and a toothless courtroom system.
6.5 / 10
A Forty-Second Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review The Return entered Early Access on Steam on 15 September 2026 with content through what the store page calls "Chapter
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed love letter to Skyrim, West of Loathing and Supraland that reviewers consistently say nails its first two hours — and just as consistently say runs out of ideas, and occasionally soft-locks, well before the credits.
6.5 / 10
