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1861 RPG games reviewed and scored, best first.
1861 reviews
The Host: Cataclysm is an ambitious, up-to-eight-player post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG about hunting colossal world bosses across a fractured world, and this review's most notable finding is that it has attracted zero public reviews in the six months since launch, despite the game's own achievement data showing a real, if small, playerbase actually fought through it.
5 / 10
A scrappy, choice-driven Eurojank RPG that launched buggy enough to land on Metacritic's worst-of-2022 list, then spent the following year patching its way toward the more competent game its ambitious branching story always deserved.
5 / 10
A Japanese doujin-scene idle game about looping rail carts around a base to gather materials and craft your way through dungeons, built on genuine long-term content but undermined by having no offline progression at all.
5 / 10
A free-to-play underwater submarine MMO explicitly chasing the nostalgia of 2000s browser PvP games like DarkOrbit and Deepolis, with genuine strategic clan warfare underneath — undercut on day one by a monetisation model reviewers describe, overwhelmingly and specifically, as pay-to-win.
5 / 10
An open-world sci-fi gacha ARPG with real exploration and character-design appeal, whose review score is being shaped less by its combat or its shop than by an account-migration process that a large, consistent share of returning players say permanently deleted hundreds of hours and real money without adequate warning.
5 / 10
A collection of tightly designed Chinese "Magic Tower" resource-and-route puzzle RPGs whose genuinely respected numerical design is overshadowed by an unusually fragmented, chapter-by-chapter paid DLC structure that a large majority of its own core audience calls predatory, compounded by a specific Steam-compatibility launch crash and dialogue that can't be skipped by any obvious in-game means.
5 / 10
A Secret of Mana homage so direct that both its critics and its fans reach for the same comparison unprompted — undercut by a self-inflicted design choice that locks its headline co-op feature behind three hours of solo play, well past Steam's own refund window.
5 / 10
A free-to-play survival MMORPG whose zombie-apocalypse crafting loop has a genuine, deeply invested fanbase, undercut by a barely-adapted mobile interface and a monetisation structure reviewers document in granular, specific detail — including a viral account of a single player spending over $2,000.
5 / 10
Nine years, a fired writer, a dropped studio and one troubled development later, Bloodlines 2 shipped as an action-adventure closer to Dishonored than an RPG — and its own most-upvoted review, at over 10,000 votes, says the original team "deserved better than this."
5 / 10
A co-op spinoff whose launch-era complaint — unwanted RPG and looter-shooter systems grafted onto a beloved franchise — never really faded, and whose recent sentiment has fallen further still for a distinct, structural reason this review independently confirmed: the free Buddy Pass trial that let a friend join your co-op game at no cost has been delisted from Steam.
5 / 10
Metal Hunter is a free JRPG-style tank-and-character action RPG built as a spiritual continuation of the beloved Metal Max series, and this review's 100-review sample, Very Positive overall (420:33 lifetime), documents an emotional, deeply nostalgic reception from longtime fans alongside real launch bugs, a stat-blind shopping system, a four-month development handover, and a rushed 1.0 update the tiny two-person team openly apologized for.
4.9 / 10
Nightmarena is a $5.99 RPG Maker fighting game blending turn-based combat with Punch-Out-style timed dodging, and while this review's Positive sample (15 of 16 reviews) praises its demanding, attention-hungry combat and creative enemy design, the sample's one detailed critical review lays out a specific, credible case that the game's telegraphing, controls, and economy are genuinely unfinished.
4.9 / 10
A Co-op Wandering Game About Bad Decisions, Not Heroics When We Arrive is a small co-op adventure from two-person studio Two Pixels UG, built around a premise its own marketing is
4.9 / 10
A cheap, no-frills automated-combat idle RPG from a developer who has released more than a dozen very similar games — genuinely relaxing for players who just want numbers to climb, undercut by a total lack of offline progress and a review base too thin and too non-English to lean on with confidence.
4.8 / 10
Legend of Swords II is a $2.99 Chinese-style turn-based RPG from developer CWGame, a wuxia-themed sequel built around talents, forging, pets, and reincarnation systems, and this review's 10-review Mixed sample describes a genuinely engaging story and skill-based boss fights held back by save-system frustrations, story-blocking bugs, and a rushed English translation.
4.8 / 10
A blacksmithing sim that pairs a genuinely satisfying forge-and-hammer loop with hero-dungeon management, but whose long, rocky Early Access stretch and persistent interface bugs still show through after its move to full release.
4.7 / 10
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A Reluctant Farmer at a School for Monster Trainers Bloomon's pitch is genuinely charming: you've enrolled at Blooomon Battle Academy, a school where every other student dr
4.6 / 10
A US$5.99 Chinese cultivation-themed idle RPG whose own official English screenshot shows equipment names left as untranslated pinyin, whose single biggest review-corpus complaint is that the developer vanished for 17 months, and whose store description of the companion system turns out to be a garbled machine translation of a real, unsettling mechanic.
4.6 / 10
A One-Developer VR Viking Sandbox, Positioned as a Prequel Tales Of Glory 4 : Ragnarok is a full-physics VR combat game from solo developer BlackTale Games, framed as a prequel to
4.6 / 10
A free-to-play relaunch of the 2012 anime MMORPG Aura Kingdom under new regional publisher X-Legend, whose nostalgic hook is overwhelmed by a Mostly Negative review pool documenting an incomplete class roster, aggressive daily-grind pacing, and real technical instability.
4.5 / 10
An Ambitious Bird Game With a Rough Early Access Landing Bird Brigade lets you become a bird — one of over thirty species drawn from a DNA-breeding system capable of producing near
4.5 / 10
A small Norse-mythology platformer with a striking art style and a review base too thin and scattered to support a confident verdict either way -- read in full and reported honestly rather than padded into something more authoritative than the evidence allows.
4.5 / 10
A genuinely addictive boba-shop management sim with real recipe depth, seriously compromised by a confirmed in-game cash-for-reviews scheme the developer removed only after backlash, and a large-scale undisclosed generative-AI asset dispute many reviewers say was disclosed only after their Steam refund window had already closed.
4.5 / 10
A full-price revival of the cult tactical-RPG franchise that a large majority of its own longtime fans call a significant step backward from Brigandine: The Legend of Forsena and The Legend of Runersia — fewer classes, no multiclassing, smaller maps, and a story mode that removes the series' signature freedom to invade rival nations in any order — defended by a real minority who argue its core combat mechanics are genuinely improved underneath the reduced scope.
4.5 / 10
