Who doesn’t love a great role-playing game?
Whether you are a peasant searching for your true cause, a gang member trying to rise through the ranks, or a warrior looking to face great evils in order to save the land, a great RPG lets you play the parts in great detail and tremendous fashion.
You become engulfed within a story that plays out like a movie and you truly feel like what you do matters. RPGs have always been around, but here’s a list of 15 of them worth playing in 2018 through 2019.
15. Yakuza 0
Yakuza 0 Gameplay
That’s right. When you’re not busting heads with signposts you can visit the cabaret.
That is one serious beatdown.
14. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Gameplay
You lost an arm but your death will not come easy. In the 1500s within Sengoku Japan, regain your honor while brutally taking the lives of vicious and twisted enemies. Winner of the Best Action Award of Gamescom 2018, unleash your ninja abilities while using a customized prosthetic arm that acts as a weapon and a shield.
As a powerful shinobi trying to regain lost honor, you are not to be trifled with.
The “Shinobi Prosthetic” can also be used as a shield.
13. Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Kingdom Come: Deliverance Gameplay
A huge open world with many choices awaits you as you travel the lands of Bohemia to fight for its future and avenge the death of your village. Every fight must be approached with caution and every decision must be weighed. Forge your own path as you mercilessly execute your enemies using medieval weapons in a realistic 15th century experience where every choice matters.
Choose your battles wisely or you’ll be outnumbered and slaughtered.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance has stunning countryside detail.
12. Shenmue 3
Shenmue 3 Gameplay
Learn and master kung fu moves as Ryo Hazuki in this long awaited third installment of a cult classic. One of the original open world RPGs returns in an adventure between Ryo and a girl named Shenhua that will bring them closer to their destiny. Earn “Technique Scrolls” to expand your fighting arsenal in order to find and avenge your father’s killer. Shenmue 3 is a Kickstarter funded game currently set for release in August, 2019.
Ryo and Shenhua enjoying a nice visual update since their last game in 2002.
Ryo looks like he’s ready for a fight.
11. The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset
The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset Gameplay
Travel to the land of the elves and fight against ancient enemies that wish to bring ruin to the world. Band together with over 10 million players for the future of Tamriel in this newest expansion of the Elder Scrolls Online. With a great story, new weapons, added skills and an expanded crafting system, veterans and newcomers will have plenty to enjoy.
The Elven land of Summerset is stunning and it’s castles are everything you would expect.
Join the all new Psijic Order and unlock a new tree of skills.
10. Call of Cthulhu®
Call of Cthulhu® Gameplay
Using your detective skills, discover the reasons behind the death of a family on Darkwater Island. Question everything as you lose your sanity while discovering clues about the island’s creatures and cults. This Halloween, dive into the Cthulhu Mythos that has been fascinating people for generations in a game deserving of H.P. Lovecraft’s name.
Explore a dark island and obtain clues from its inhabitants about the truth of the Hawkins family deaths.
Your wits will be your weapon. You’re not a fighter. Call of Cthulu has a very dark and claustrophobic feeling.
9. Kenshi
Kenshi Gameplay
You are alone and nobody will come to help you. You will have to work hard to survive, no matter what it takes in this huge open world sandbox single player RPG. Be anything you want whether that means falling into slavery or building an army and dominate an entire city. Everyone in the world is an equal in this original RPG where the rest of the world will continue on with or without you.
Choosing the path of a killer is only as good as the work you put into being stronger than your enemies
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Other people aren’t the only thing you have to worry about. Creatures that inhabit Kenshi are very formidable. This “Beak Thing” just wiped out a whole clan.
8. Pillars of Eternity 2
Pillars Of Eternity 2: Deadfire Gameplay
Following up the award winning original, sail your ship into the massive open world of Deadfire where you’ll chase down a god thought to be destroyed. Play the way you want with a big cast of companions who not only interact with you, but each other as well. Choose between 11 different classes in this true D&D style gameplay where you can explore anything and your choices truly matter.
Enhanced graphics and gameplay make Pillars of Eternity 2 more immersive than ever before.
Your ship can also be upgraded and customized to suit your taste.
7. The Surge 2
The Surge 2 Gameplay
Put on your exosuit and survive Jericho City on an Earth that is in the process of destroying itself through natural disasters from ecological collapse due to a mysterious power surge. Pick your style of gameplay by customizing your own character with a branching story as you hack and slash your way through a sci-fi story. Battle rage induced Earth survivors or robots that change their behavior with their injuries as the fight progresses.
The exosuit is your main defense and weapon against Earth’s leftover inhabitants.
Welcome to Jericho City, where the power surge has shown it’s affect on the Earth.
6. Tom Clancy's The Division 2
Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 Gameplay
Set in a true scaled representation of Washington DC, protect the survivors of a virus outbreak in a post pandemic world while banding together against the many other factions that are trying to claim the city for themselves. Customize your load-out with a huge variety of guns and skills to outgun your opponents no matter where they are. More realistic A.I. means the enemies will be hiding, sniping and flanking you while you duck and hide under cover of heavy gunfire from a wide range of foes. PvP has also been overhauled for a more improved system than the original game.
The Division 2 has been increased into a full scale 1:1 version of Washington DC. See the sites of the capital. Just try not to get shot.
There is every bit of care put into detail of Washington DC’s map as there was in the first game’s New York City.
5. Divinity Original Sin 2
Divinity Original Sin 2 Gameplay
The Divine is dead and the Veil between the Void and Rivellon has weakened. As a Sourcerer, you have been persecuted, stripped of your powers and sent to Fort Joy in order to keep your Source powers from attracting an evil known as the Voidwoken. In this award winning isometric turn based RPG, use all of the environment around you as you forge your way forward any way you like while using your powers along with an extremely detailed combat system and enemy A.I. Choose from several classes that can all be fully customized while you steal, talk, sneak, and fight your way through almost any scenario where completion is only limited by your imagination.
There are many main characters with a great deal of detail. They all have unique story lines of their own.
Fort Joy is where you are imprisoned. It is also where you will make your escape by any means necessary.
4. Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
Baldur’s Gate II:Enhanced Edition Gameplay
One of the best known fantasy RPGs of all time has been updated and improved in the Enhanced Edition. With many bug fixes, new characters, native widescreen support and cross platform multiplayer, play through a classic D&D style title again in whatever way you choose. Become the hero that pushes back the darkness, or become a god of destruction as you ascend to be the new Lord Of Murder. Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition includes the original Shadows of Amn storyline as well as seven other expansions to keep you entertained for a long time.
For a game that originally came out 18 years ago, it still holds up with plenty of detail and tons of things to do.
Fighting a dragon in a dungeon… I can feel the nostalgia already.
3. Wasteland 3
Wasteland 3 Gameplay
Take control of the last surviving members of a Desert Ranger squad in a post-apocalyptic turned based strategy RPG set in Colorado as you help rebuild the Colorado Rangers for the one called the Patriarch. Train and control a group of rangers as you play alone or with a newly added co-op mode while using an improved combat system where you can queue your moves ahead of time. Experience game changing choices as you talk your way with characters through the new and improved dialog system. You must find the Patriarch and help him save his nation to ensure the survival of all the Desert Rangers.
This isometric RPG has an involved and improved turn based combat system where you can use vehicles and the environment around you.
The people of the wastelands are not always happy to see you.
2. Anthem
Anthem Gameplay
Put on your customized exosuit known as the Javelin and use your devastating arsenal to explore a beautiful detailed world that changes and evolves as time passes. Play with up to three teammates and take on quests to help protect what’s left of humanity in a futuristic, dystopian world. Enjoy a world of incredible detail and tons of threats.
The world in Anthem has breathtaking detail. You’ll find yourself so busy admiring the details that you won’t notice how hostile it is until it’s too late.
This “Shaper Storm” is a world changing event that will offer up new quests and areas to explore.
1. Greedfall
Greedfall Gameplay
Set in a colonial 17th century fantasy, travel to a remote island in search of the answer to an incurable disease that is killing the people of the Old World. Whether it’s melee or magic, create your own play style using an advanced system that isn’t based on classes. Build your reputation by choosing whether you progress by blood or diplomacy, where your decisions will affect your companions and the factions that control the island.
The island may be home to riches and possibly a cure for the plague, but it is also home to mythical creatures and monsters.
The island is also home to other factions that may or may not want you there.
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