Role-playing game
This genre originated from tabletop role-playing games. The user controls a hero or a group that must interact with non-player characters and fight against enemies. They all have various parameters, numerical characteristics, and specific abilities. The gameplay of role-playing games can be turn-based or in real-time. Role-playing games are divided into two types: some are focused solely on combat and provide the player with a wide range of combat skills and weaponry, while others offer greater freedom and allow players to complete certain quests without engaging in battle, using skills such as persuasion, stealth, etc. The second type of role-playing games features a deep world, an interesting storyline, and a large number of side quests.
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Best Games in the Role-playing game genre of 2017 (Game released)
Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, First-person view, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Open world
Game released: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Nintendo Switch → 11 November 2011
VGTimes:
9.0/10
Players:
8.6/10
Steam:
94/100
Metacritic:
94/100
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is a role-playing game with action elements in an open world. It was developed and released by Bethesda for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC on...
Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 → 28 October 2016
Players:
8.5/10
Steam:
94/100
Metacritic:
82/100
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Special Edition is a re-release of the role-playing fantasy game with an open world The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Legendary Edition for...
Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Mac, Linux → 26 February 2016
Players:
8.8/10
Steam:
98/100
Metacritic:
88/100
Stardew Valley is a farming simulator with role-playing elements, an open-world sandbox with an isometric camera and the visual style of 90s arcade games. After...
Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Adventure
Game released: PlayStation 4, PC → 1 March 2017
Players:
8.7/10
Steam:
89/100
Metacritic:
89/100
Horizon Zero Dawn is an action role-playing game with a third-person view in the world of a futuristic post-apocalypse. The game is dedicated to the confrontation...
Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Adventure
Game released: PlayStation 4, PC → 5 December 2017
Players:
8.2/10
Steam:
89/100
Metacritic:
84/100
Complete Edition Horizon Zero Dawn, which includes the original game and the expansion The Frozen Wilds. You will have to immerse yourself in a world where you...
Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Linux → 15 September 2015
Players:
8.5/10
Steam:
96/100
Metacritic:
92/100
An RPG with a unique combat system, where each battle can be completed without a single blow. Instead of the usual violence, there are conversations, mercy, and...
Role-playing game, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Roguelike, Dungeons, Cooperative (co-op), Replayability
Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, Wii U, New Nintendo 3DS, iOS → 4 November 2014
Players:
8.6/10
Steam:
96/100
Metacritic:
87/100
Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a top-down indie RPG. You will play as the boy Isaac, hiding in the basement from his mother, whom God ordered to sacrifice him. To...
Game released: PlayStation 4, PS Vita, PC, Mac, iPad, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Linux → 27 September 2016
Players:
8/10
Steam:
90/100
Metacritic:
84/100
Darkest Dungeon is a unique party RPG, where the skills of your heroes are tied not to abstract indicators of strength, dexterity, intelligence, but to a very real...
Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, Open world
Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One → 11 June 2020
Players:
7.1/10
Steam:
72/100
Metacritic:
73/100
Mass Effect: Andromeda is a continuation of the space action role-playing game with a third-person view in the Mass Effect universe. Events take place after the...
Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch → 15 March 2016
Players:
7.9/10
Steam:
64/100
Metacritic:
64/100
Sheltered is a procedurally generated adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. After many died in a nuclear holocaust, you are lucky enough to survive in a...
Game released: PS Vita, PlayStation 4, PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 28 March 2017
Players:
9/10
Steam:
88/100
Metacritic:
82/100
Salt and Sanctuary is a fantasy platformer with RPG elements and a side view. The game tells the story of a sailor who is shipwrecked off the shore of an unknown...
Game released: Wii U, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC → 8 December 2012
VGTimes:
8.3/10
Players:
8.2/10
Steam:
74/100
Metacritic:
90/100
Mass Effect 3 is the final part of the space role-playing trilogy with a third-person view. Events begin with a devastating attack on Earth by an army of an ancient...
Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Beat them all, Casual game, Comedy, Open world, Role-playing game
Game released: PlayStation 4, PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 28 August 2018
Players:
7.1/10
Steam:
82/100
Metacritic:
84/100
The game tells the story of a turning point in the Tojo clan's history, when the old guard fades and a new force rises. The story centers on Goro Majima, a...
Game released: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 21 January 2016
Players:
7/10
Steam:
82/100
Metacritic:
79/100
A remake of the original third-person action adventure Yakuza, released on PlayStation 2 in 2005. The game tells the story of a man named Kazuma Kiryu, who was one...
Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, Flight Simulator, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Open world, Space, Exploration
Game released: PC, Mac, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 → 16 December 2014
Players:
8.3/10
Steam:
40/100
Metacritic:
79/100
Elite Dangerous is a reboot of the legendary space simulator of the 80s. The Empire is on the brink of chaos. The Emperor is ill, and a fierce struggle for the...
Tower Defense (Tower Defense), In real time, Strategy, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Isometric, Tactics
Game released: Android, iOS → 8 August 2017
Players:
4.3/10
Empire Warriors: Tower Defense is a fantasy real-time strategy game with tower defense and RPG elements. You have to fight powerful enemies with your wise...
Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Xbox One → 23 April 2015
Players:
8.7/10
Steam:
95/100
Metacritic:
86/100
Crypt of the NecroDancer is a unique indie game where everything moves to the rhythm of the music of Danny Baranowski, the composer of Super Meat Boy and the...
Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game, Dungeons
Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, Linux → 20 October 2017
Players:
8.8/10
Steam:
85/100
Metacritic:
79/100
Battle Chasers: Nightwar is a classic RPG in the style of Heroes of Might and Magic 3. You will explore dungeons, develop the abilities of your characters and move...
Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Adventure, Online, Sandbox
Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch → 18 May 2017
Players:
7.8/10
Steam:
83/100
Metacritic:
74/100
Portal Knights is an action role-playing game with a procedurally generated world in a fantasy setting from the creators of Sacred 3. The ideological inspiration...
Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 11 April 2017
Players:
9.8/10
Steam:
94/100
Metacritic:
85/100
Planescape: Torment — Enhanced Edition is a special re-release of the classic role-playing game with turn-based combat in a fantasy world for modern...