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1856 RPG games reviewed and scored, best first.
1856 reviews
A turn-based roguelite that reviewers keep describing the same way — "Octopath Traveler meets Slay the Spire" — with a genuinely distinctive height-based combat system underneath. Two days into Early Access it's fighting real launch bugs, but few Early Access debuts respond to their players this fast or this openly.
6.5 / 10
A Twenty-Second Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review The Spirit of Twelve released on Steam on 10 August 2026 and has zero user reviews at the time of writing, extending this
6.5 / 10
Deck13's sci-fi Souls-like introduced limb-targeting combat and an exosuit-crafting loop genuinely novel for the genre, and spent nine years being described in almost identical terms by its own fans -- a great first few hours undone by clunky combat and a back half that runs out of ideas.
6.5 / 10
Deck13's sci-fi souls-like sequel fixes the first game's biggest complaints — bigger city, better combat, a real parry system — and its own review corpus is unusually consistent that it succeeded, even as a wave of much more recent reviews complain the PC build has since rotted into crashes and broken textures on modern hardware.
6.5 / 10
A tactical narrative gamebook from A Sharp, the designers of King of Dragon Pass and Six Ages, sending a randomly-generated crew of heisters on short, choice-driven raids into hell, earning a Very Positive launch reception for its writing and art, tempered by honest reviewer complaints about heavy randomness, a vaguely-worded trait system, and thin strategic depth.
6.5 / 10
NC's weapon-swap MMORPG delivers the best guild siege in the genre right now and asks a real question about what its Auction House and $50 Character Boost actually buy. Reviewed with The Frozen Divide: Nix (level cap 60) live and Update 4.3.0's Battlegrounds season running.
6.5 / 10
A Witcher spin-off following Queen Meve's war-torn revenge story, Very Positive across more than 15,000 reviews for its writing and presentation — undercut by a dominant complaint that its Gwent-based combat leans too heavily on fixed-solution puzzles rather than the genuine strategic card matches players wanted.
6.5 / 10
Lunar Ray Games' Kickstarter-funded, Castlevania-inspired metroidvania is Very Positive on Steam, but its negative review sample splits into two genuinely different arguments -- one about real, specific shortcomings in combat, length and writing craft, and a separate, unusually large one objecting not to mechanics but to the game's prominent queer and trans representation.
6.5 / 10
A gameboy-styled, budget-priced take on Darkest Dungeon's hamlet-and-expedition loop, whose charm and a famously responsive solo developer are consistently undercut by roughly two-thirds of its class roster feeling underwhelming and a punishing jump to its harder difficulties.
6.5 / 10
A free, fully voice-acted medieval choose-your-own-path strategy game built by a solo developer working with AI tools at every layer of production, backed at launch by a small but entirely positive review sample praising its replayability and choice-driven storytelling.
6.5 / 10
A free seasonal ARPG that borrows the Torchlight name and little of its soul, built instead around a genuinely deep hero-trait talent system, gacha pets that quietly cross the line the developer said it wouldn't cross, and a trade market that taxes you on the way out.
6.5 / 10
Wake Up With No Memory, Then Talk Your Way Through a Murder Every Week Turing Testimony opens on a genre-familiar setup: the player wakes up in an unfamiliar campus with fragmented
6.5 / 10
A Fiftieth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review Unhallowed Survivors entered Early Access on Steam on 4 September 2026 for Windows, and at the time of writing has zero user r
6.5 / 10
A Final Fantasy Tactics-inspired tactical RPG starring a cast of anthropomorphic animals, praised for its beautiful art and positioning-based combat — held back at launch by a harsh, poorly-taught opening difficulty spike, real UI bugs, and a serious save-corruption issue the developer fixed within weeks before largely moving on from the game.
6.5 / 10
Troika Games' legendary, writing-driven vampire RPG set in modern-day Los Angeles, Very Positive across more than 10,300 reviews for dialogue and world-building widely regarded as among the best the genre has produced — sold on Steam in a state the overwhelming majority of recent reviewers say does not run on modern Windows without a community-made unofficial patch.
6.5 / 10
DONTNOD's narrative vampire-RPG draws real praise for its moral choice system and atmospheric London setting, undercut by a genuinely clunky combat system that's the single most common complaint in this outlet's sample, and a deliberate "commit to your choices" single-save design that several reviewers describe compounding real bugs into permanent, un-fixable stuck states.
6.5 / 10
A steampunk grid-based dungeon crawler built squarely in Legend of Grimrock's shadow, with atmosphere and a Bioshock-flavoured setting that reviewers consistently praise -- and one specific, repeatedly-named design decision, enemy level-scaling, that a large share of its own fans say ruins the back half.
6.5 / 10
The first new mainline entry in the Mana series in over a decade brings genuinely fun three-character action combat and some of the best art and music the franchise has produced, undercut by a shallower open world than its predecessors, a story several longtime fans call the weakest the series has told, and a real, documented studio closure that landed days after launch.
6.5 / 10
A deep, AI-assisted idle RPG from solo developer HammaLlama with 26 skills and class-based combat, Mostly Positive across 47 reviews for its huge content depth at a bargain price — clouded by a specific complaint that its "hand-crafted" marketing contradicts the developer's own disclosure of AI-generated code, art, and music.
6.5 / 10
A creature-taming third-person shooter from Hatchery Games that lets players hatch, breed and splice sci-fi monsters into custom killing machines, built on a genuinely satisfying collection-and-customisation loop that a large share of its own reviewers say runs out of campaign and endgame content long before it runs out of ideas.
6.5 / 10
A turn-based survival horror from Team Vultures that swaps Resident Evil's real-time dread for tactical, tile-based combat, Very Positive across a large English review sample for its retro charm and inventive combat puzzles, with a fair, widely repeated complaint about crashes, softlocks, and other launch-window bugs.
6.5 / 10
A charming, Animal Crossing-adjacent casual RPG about crash-landing on an island and taming pets to complete quests for its inhabitants, fondly remembered by longtime players from its earlier Yahoo Games era — tempered by one detailed reviewer's account of real instability and repetitive pacing across multiple purchased copies.
6.5 / 10
A fantasy hero-collector that grafts real tower-defense strategy onto the gacha RPG formula, praised for genuinely spectacular presentation and a free-to-play track reviewers call unusually generous for the genre, while gacha odds stay undisclosed and top-tier purchases climb to NZ$160-plus a pop.
6.5 / 10
A boss-rush action RPG that ties equipment bonuses to your microphone, your frame rate and your graphics card model — a genuinely novel gimmick that a large share of its own audience says runs out of new ideas within the first hour or two.
6.5 / 10
