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1861 RPG games reviewed and scored, best first.
1861 reviews
Chasing Carrots dressed a Vampire Survivors loop in Diablo's dark isometric skin and then buried it under one of the deepest meta-progression trees the survivor-like genre has — a review of what that unlock grind buys you, and what happens to the screen once it pays off.
8 / 10
A free two-to-three-hour RPG Maker parody that spoils its own plot twists in the title and dialogue, yet somehow lands genuine emotional beats alongside the comedy, backed by a small but nearly unanimous Very Positive review pool.
8 / 10
Read review of Heavy Spoilers RPG: The true identity of the final enemy is the hero's father
A Hex-Grid Deckbuilder Built Around Committing to Every Card Heroes of Magic and Steel is a tactical deckbuilder from Gaister Studios that trades the single-avatar structure of Sla
8 / 10
A widely loved open-world action RPG about hunting robotic beasts in a fallen future — whose PC negative sample carries three distinct, well-documented controversies: a 2020 launch plagued by crashes, a fiercely objected-to data-collection agreement with no real opt-out, and a 2024 delisting tied to a PSN account requirement that blocked some regions from buying either version.
8 / 10
A turn-based tactical folktale from The Lion's Song studio Mipumi, praised almost unanimously for its storybook atmosphere and deterministic, puzzle-like combat — a short, polished, low-replay-value gem that reviewers consistently describe as knowing exactly when to end.
8 / 10
A coming-of-age sci-fi RPG about growing up on an alien world across ten years and card- battle skill checks, praised by a huge share of its own audience as genuinely moving, undercut for a specific minority by a replay-driven structure several reviewers say betrays its own central promise that choices carry across lives.
8 / 10
The action RPG that turned build crafting into something you can actually read and steer — fifteen masteries, a specialization tree on every skill, and deterministic crafting — held back by a campaign nobody replays and an endgame that runs out of new ideas before you do.
8 / 10
A narrative-driven tactical RPG about an insurance adjuster who has to deny a claim and save the world, mixing Fire Emblem-style grid combat with a fully voiced dating-sim layer and a time-management system some players find liberating and others find punishing.
8 / 10
A faithful, meticulously crafted revival of the grid-based dungeon crawler that reviewers credit with helping bring the genre back from the dead, whose real-time combat draws a specific, detailed critique from veterans of its Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder forebears.
8 / 10
A Belle Époque retelling of Pinocchio that wears its Bloodborne influence on its sleeve, then earns the comparison with a weapon-assembly system and a guard-timing mechanic good enough to stand on their own.
8 / 10
A gorgeously illustrated horror life-sim RPG blending fairy-tale folklore, a sapphic dating-sim structure, and genuinely eldritch horror in a rural German setting — celebrated for its striking mixed-media art and branching narrative, but held back at launch by unforgiving, sometimes obscure puzzle and survival segments the developer has since substantially, though not fully, addressed.
8 / 10
A 1994 Japan-only SNES anthology RPG gets a gorgeous HD-2D remake and its first-ever release outside Japan -- eight short, wildly different stories in one box, held together by writing critics and players agree is stronger than the archaic combat carried over from the original.
8 / 10
A pixel-art survival horror RPG confined to a single apartment building where glancing out a window turns people into grotesque monsters — a genuine cult phenomenon whose storytelling and atmosphere draw some of the most passionate praise this outlet has documented all year, sitting alongside a real, specific mechanical complaint cluster about a punishing save system and RNG-heavy combat from a small but consistent share of its own reviewers.
8 / 10
A faithful 4K remaster of two of the most beloved 1990s JRPGs, bundling Silver Star Story and Eternal Blue with real quality-of-life upgrades, undercut only by a divisive full voice redub that longtime fans can't quite let go of.
8 / 10
The sequel keeps the first game's text-only school-of-magic formula intact and pours the budget into scope instead — a bigger spell list, a crew of Wizards you can delegate to, and a familiar system that splits its own fanbase down the middle.
8 / 10
Capcom gives its most overlooked Mega Man sub-series the remaster treatment it always deserved, rebuilding all seven Nintendo DS versions in RE Engine with genuine quality-of-life care rather than a lazy emulator wrapper.
8 / 10
A Creature Collector That Fits In A Corner Of Your Screen Minimon: Tiny Idle Tactics, released August 31, 2026 by developer Reign of Gaming and publisher Bufflehead Studios, pitche
8 / 10
A retro-inspired, roguelike-adjacent turn-based RPG that compresses a classic Chosen One quest into a couple of hours per run, drawing a unanimously Positive reception praising its charming pixel art, standout music and surprisingly deep, replayable systems hidden beneath a minimalist arcade-style pace, from a small but enthusiastic solo-developer release.
8 / 10
A solo developer's first-person melee roguelike spent two and a half years in Early Access before its 1.0 finally gave the combat a story worth finishing and a boss worth building toward.
8 / 10
A fifteen-year-old medieval sandbox that still sits at Overwhelmingly Positive across over 135,000 reviews, built on a mounted-combat system nothing else has fully replicated and a modding scene that arguably did more for the game's longevity than its own campaign design.
8 / 10
A top-down sandbox RPG that spent six years in Early Access building the one system that actually separates it from the Terraria-likes around it — recruit settlers, hand them jobs, and your colony keeps working while you're off fighting something in a cave.
8 / 10
An Early Access cozy creature collector that fuses Stardew Valley-style town life with roguelike dungeon-diving combat and Nimbit creature raising with genuine trait inheritance, drawing a Very Positive early reception for its unusually polished launch and inventive genre blend, tempered by one detailed reviewer's warning that its dungeon, raising and town systems currently compete for the player's time rather than reinforcing each other.
8 / 10
Team Ninja builds a three-stance, Ki Pulse-driven combat system deeper than almost anything else in the genre, then buries a big chunk of its own goodwill under Diablo-scale loot noise and mission design that leans hard on reused level layouts.
8 / 10
Grinding Gear Games rebuilt combat around commitment and rhythm instead of clear speed, redrew the passive tree and skill-gem system from the ground up, and is still rebuilding the endgame around them nineteen months into Early Access — a genre-defining campaign wrapped around systems that are still visibly under construction.
8 / 10
