Role-playing game 2016 for PlayStation 4 — top best games in the Role-playing game genre

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 30 August 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 91/100

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Complete Edition — the most complete edition The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, including all expansions, add-ons The Witcher 3: Blood and...

Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Special Edition

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 28 October 2016

Players: 8.6/10

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...

Stardew Valley

Role-playing game, Simulation, Business / Management, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 13 December 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Stardew Valley is a farmer simulator with role-playing elements, a sandbox in an open world with an isometric camera and a visual style reminiscent of 90s arcade...

Dark Souls 3

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 12 April 2016

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Dark Souls 3 is a hardcore third-person action RPG set in the Dark Souls universe. The sequel retains the spirit, atmosphere and core mechanics of the first two...

Final Fantasy XV

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 29 November 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Final Fantasy XV is a continuation of the popular role-playing action game with a third-person perspective set in the futuristic universe of Final Fantasy and is a...

Mount & Blade: Warband

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 27 September 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Mount & Blade: Warband is an action role-playing game with strategy elements and a third-person view in a medieval setting. You will be able to become the ruler of...

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Third-person view, Cyberpunk

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 23 August 2016

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is a continuation of the futuristic role-playing game with a first-person view, stealth elements and cyberpunk style. The year 2027 was a...

Darkest Dungeon

Role-playing game, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Roguelike

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 27 September 2016

Players: 8/10

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...

Tom Clancy's The Division

Role-playing game, Online, Action, Shooter, MMO, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 8 March 2016

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Tom Clancy's The Division is a multiplayer online action game with a third-person view in a post-apocalyptic world. The game takes place in modern New York, during...

Sheltered

Role-playing game, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 15 March 2016

Players: 7.9/10

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...

Risk of Rain

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 12 April 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Risk of Rain is an action-adventure RPG with a third-person view and roguelike elements in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game will take you to a distant...

Hyper Light Drifter

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 26 July 2016

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Hyper Light Drifter is a top-down action-adventure RPG. The main character of the game suffers from a strange disease and goes to amazing countries to find a...

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine

Role-playing game, DLC, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 30 May 2016

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 92/100

Witcher 3: Blood and Wine — add-ons for the fantasy role-playing game Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Geralt will have to visit the Nilfgaardian duchy of Toussaint...

Banner Saga

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 12 January 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Banner Saga is a tactical role-playing strategy with turn-based combat and a top-down view. The game combines amazing visual style and Nordic atmosphere. Banner...

Salt and Sanctuary

Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 15 March 2016

Players: 9/10

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...

Crypt of the NecroDancer

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Music game, Tactics, Roguelike

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 2 February 2016

Players: 8.7/10

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...

Valkyria Chronicles

Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 17 May 2016

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Valkyria Chronicles is a turn-based tactical strategy with role-playing elements. The game takes place in Europe in 1935, presenting an alternative version of World...

Mordheim: City of the Damned

Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 18 October 2016

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Mordheim: City of the Damned is a tactical role-playing game in a fantasy setting. The game takes place in the fictional universe of Warhammer Fantasy. You will...

Lichdom: Battlemage

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 22 April 2016

Players: 6.4/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Lichdom: Battlemage is an action role-playing game with a first-person view in a fantasy setting. You have to fight hundreds of unique enemies using magical powers...

Neverwinter

Role-playing game, Action, MMO, In real time, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 July 2016

Players: 6.7/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Neverwinter — a free-to-play multiplayer role-playing game with a third-person view in the Neverwinter fantasy universe. The once mighty city of Neverwinter...

Persona 5

Role-playing game, Action, MMO, Third-person view, Anime / Manga

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 4 April 2017

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 93/100

Persona 5 is a Japanese-style third-person role-playing adventure. The fifth part of the famous role-playing series will tell the story of a schoolboy who moves to...

Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Role-playing game, Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Comics

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 26 July 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Marvel Ultimate Alliance is an exciting action role-playing game with an isometric camera view about Marvel superheroes. The game will allow you to create your own...

Saturday Morning RPG

Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 26 January 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Saturday Morning RPG is a fantastic side-scrolling RPG with turn-based combat. The developers took inspiration from cartoons and the culture of the eighties. The...

Unepic

Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 29 March 2016

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Unepic is a side-scrolling action-platformer RPG in a fantasy setting. You will play as Daniel, who, due to strange circumstances, finds himself in the ancient and...

Dex - a game in the Role-playing game genre

Dex

Role-playing game, Adventure, Stealth, Indie, Steampunk

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 12 July 2016

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Dex is a 2D open-world cyberpunk RPG that focuses on exploration and non-linear...

Dark Souls 3: Ashes of Ariandel

Role-playing game, Action, DLC, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 25 October 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Dark Souls 3: Ashes of Ariandel is an addition to the hardcore third-person action RPG Dark Souls 3. You will go to a new gloomy world, shrouded in snow, where you...

Fallout 4: Wasteland Workshop

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 12 April 2016

Players: 6.5/10

Fallout 4: Wasteland Workshop is an addition to the post-apocalyptic action role-playing game in the Fallout universe. The addition will greatly expand the ability...

Sword Coast Legends

Role-playing game, In real time, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 July 2016

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 61/100

Sword Coast Legends — the game is an action role-playing video game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. It presents typical races and classes of the...

Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 15 September 2017

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana is a sequel to the Japanese role-playing game with a third-person view. The main character is again the red-haired adventurer Adol, who...

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 5 February 2016

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 76/100

I am Setsuna

Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 July 2016

Players: 5.2/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Banner Saga 2

Role-playing game, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics, Adventure, Strategy

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 5 July 2016

Players: 6.7/10

Banner Saga 2 is a turn-based role-playing game with tactical elements and an isometric view. You must lead your Viking clans through a hostile country on the verge...

Battleborn

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Strategy, In real time, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 26 May 2016; The project is closed: PlayStation 4 → 31 January 2021

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Battleborn is an action MOBA game with a first-person perspective. Players will fight each other on a distant planet orbiting the only surviving sun in the...

Livelock

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 30 August 2016

Players: 6.1/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Livelock is a co-op action game about mechs in which players will control iron monsters and fight together against entire armies. The plot of the game will take you...

Fallout 4: Far Harbor

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 May 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Fallout 4: Far Harbor — addition to the post-apocalyptic action role-playing game in the Fallout universe. Players will have to go to the island of Far...

Tom Clancy's The Division - Underground

Role-playing game, Online, Action, Shooter, MMO, DLC, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 28 June 2016

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Tom Clancy's The Division — Underground is an addition to the multiplayer online action game with a third-person view in the post-apocalyptic world of The...

Toukiden 2

Role-playing game, Action, Slasher, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 21 March 2017

Metacritic: 77/100

Toukiden 2 is a sequel to the Japanese-style action RPG about demon hunters. You will take on the role of the mysterious Slayer, who has awakened after a ten-year...

Nights of Azure

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 1 April 2016

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Nights of Azure is a third-person action role-playing game in Japanese style. The game is developed by the creator of Fatal Frame, in which players will play as two...

Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 7 June 2016

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Fallout 4: Contraptions Workshop

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 21 June 2016

Players: 5.6/10

Fallout 4: Contraptions Workshop is an addition to the post-apocalyptic action role-playing game in the Fallout universe. It will offer you to improve your...

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Best Games in the Role-playing game genre of 2016 for PlayStation 4