Kris, Susie and Ralsei in the Dark World; Toby Fox's chaptered follow-up.
A gnome and a flute across nine worlds; Amanita's most beautiful.
A little robot in a rusty city; Amanita Design's hand-drawn point-and-click.
A bullet-hell dungeon of gun puns; Dodge Roll.
Stress, torches and the Ancestor's voice; the roguelike about dread.
Two Solstice warriors in a Chrono Trigger tribute; Sabotage Studio.
Ten crewmates, two impostors, emergency meetings; the pandemic's party game.
Scrap the moons for a company quota and die to a coilhead; the co-op horror comedy of 2023.
Naoe and Yasuke in Sengoku Japan; the 2025 entry.
Eivor raids Anglo-Saxon England; Vikings on the Ubisoft scale.
Kassandra in the Peloponnesian War; the Assassin's Creed that became an RPG.
Dogtown, Idris Elba and the spy thriller that redeemed Cyberpunk.
A pilot dies on an alien planet and restarts; the roguelike bullet-hell that cost sixty dollars.
Paldea, three stories and a fully open world; the ambitious, broken one.
Catch Pokemon in real time in a feudal Sinnoh; the series finally changes.
Two nations at eternal war and soldiers with ten years to live; Monolith Soft's best.
Ichiban Kasuga turns the series turn-based in Yokohama; the funniest RPG of 2020.
The Luminary and a classic turn-based quest; the most traditional great JRPG of its decade.
The MMORPG rebuilt from a failure; A Realm Reborn to Dawntrail with the best story in the series.
Jin Sakai against the Mongol invasion of 1274, in Kurosawa mode; Sucker Punch's samurai open world.
Ellie and Abby in Seattle; the sequel that split its audience.
Peter and Miles, the symbiote and Venom across two boroughs.
The Land of Shadow, Messmer and the final boss argued about for months; the biggest From expansion.
A child in the Underground can spare every monster; Toby Fox's RPG that remembers what you did.
Classic and modern Sonic through the series' best levels; the birthday game.
Two doctors rewrite a dying man's memories so he can reach the moon; a pixel-art tearjerker.
A narrator tells you to go left; go right. The comedy about choice in games.
A boy in a basement shoots tears at monsters; the roguelike with a thousand items.
Manage a starship crew through a roguelike galaxy; every run ends in a story.
A world on the bodies of two dead titans; the Wii JRPG fans campaigned to bring West.
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