Best RPGs of all time
by americation | created - 29 Nov 2022 | updated - 4 months ago | Public- Genres
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1. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
The monster slayer Geralt of Rivia must find his adoptive daughter who is being pursued by the Wild Hunt, and prevent the White Frost from bringing about the end of the world.
Director: Konrad Tomaszkiewicz | Stars: Doug Cockle, Denise Gough, Jo Wyatt, Jaimi Barbakoff
Votes: 33,301
CD Project
2. Final Fantasy IX (2000 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
When bandits try to kidnap the princess, they discover that it's the princess who wants to be kidnapped. But they are chased by an evil queen and an even more powerful entity.
Director: Hiroyuki Itô
Votes: 5,523
Square Enix
3. Elden Ring (2022 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In a dark fantasy world created by Hidetaka Miyazaki (Dark Souls) and George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire), the player is a Tarnished who is called back to the Lands Between to restore the Elden Ring and become the Elden Lord.
Directors: Hidetaka Miyazaki, Yui Tanimura | Stars: Martha Mackintosh, Anthony Howell, Con O'Neill, Ramon Tikaram
Votes: 10,118
From Software
4. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After escaping execution, the last living Dragonborn must grow in strength and power to defeat the dragons that have once again begun to plague the land of Skyrim.
Director: Todd Howard | Stars: Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Joan Allen, Michael Hogan
Votes: 33,678
Bethesda
5. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (2002 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The protagonist travels by Morrowind, eastern province of the Septim Empire in Tamriel. He/she can save it from enslavement or explore for personal purposes.
Director: Todd Howard | Stars: Jeff Baker, Jonathan Bryce, Lynda Carter, Linda Canyon
Votes: 3,743
Bethesda
6. Final Fantasy VII (1997 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Drama
A former soldier from an evil company joins a mercenary clan to fight the company he once served.
Directors: Yoshinori Kitase, Yasushi Matsumura, Masato Yagi
Votes: 11,344
Square Enix
7. Dark Souls (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After narrowly escaping a doomed fate in an asylum, an undead warrior fights his way through the desolate remains of Lordran, once a sprawling utopia lead by the gods, to seek his purpose and fulfill a centuries old prophecy.
Director: Hidetaka Miyazaki | Stars: Adam Sopp, Andy Gathergood, Blake Ritson, Charlie Cameron
Votes: 6,122
From Software
8. Deus Ex (2000 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
In a dark cyberpunk future where poverty, disease, oppression and terrorism are widespread, J.C. Denton, a new cybernetically-enhanced special agent, finds evidence of a massive conspiracy when his brother, also an agent, goes rogue.
Director: Warren Spector | Stars: Jay Anthony Franke, Brent Anderson, Ralph Barbagallo, Chad Bannon
Votes: 3,436
Eidos
9. Chrono Trigger (1995 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Crono, a young boy, is thrust to adventure by destiny to destroy an oncoming threat that will destroy the world in 1999.
Directors: Yoshinori Kitase, Akihiko Matsui, Takashi Tokita, Nao Ito
Votes: 3,308
Square Enix
10. Bloodborne (2015 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A hunter awakens in the plagued lands of Yharnam, where the denizens have succumb to beast hood, in an attempt to learn the truth and how to end the plague, unbeknownst of the true horror lurking within the city.
Director: Hidetaka Miyazaki | Stars: Daniel Fine, Joe Sims, William Vanderpuye, Andrew Tiernan
Votes: 7,561
From Software
11. Secret of Mana (1993 Video Game)
E10+ | Action, Adventure, Drama
The story of a boy who pulls out a rusty sword and is banished from Potos. He meets a girl and a Sprite. Together, they journey to gather 8 Mana seeds to save the Mana tree and stop Thanatos and his empire from taking over the world.
Director: Kôichi Ishii
Votes: 693
Square Enix
12. Xenoblade Chronicles (2010 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Drama
In a world of endless ocean, all life lives on the decaying corpses of two gigantic titans, the Bionis and Mechonis. When the army of Mechonis attacks his home, young scientist Shulk sets out for revenge.
Directors: Ko Kojima, Genki Yokota, Tetsuya Takahashi | Stars: Shintarô Asanuma, Eri Nakao, Ryô Horikawa, Eiji Miyashita
Votes: 822
Monolith Soft
13. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After being freed by the Emperor of Tamriel, the hero must prevent the gates of Oblivion from spreading throughout the Empire.
Director: Todd Howard | Stars: Sean Bean, Lynda Carter, Terence Stamp, Patrick Stewart
Votes: 13,081
Bethesda
14. Mass Effect (2007 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
In a technologically advanced future, an elite human soldier takes command of a prototype star ship and works to defend the galaxy from danger.
Director: Casey Hudson | Stars: Steven Barr, Kimberly Brooks, Keith David, Seth Green
Votes: 19,825
Bioware
15. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Richter Belmont has vanished just as Castlevania reemerged from the mists. Meanwhile, Alucard, the bastard son of Dracula, has awakened from his eternal slumber, intent on destroying his evil father once and for all.
Director: Toru Hagihara | Stars: Robert Belgrade, Ramsay Scott, Kimberly Forsythe, Michael Guinn
Votes: 1,812
Konami
16. Fallout 3 (2008 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Centuries following nuclear war, a teen leaves the safety of an underground vault in order to find their father, who left in hopes of creating a water purifier.
Director: Todd Howard | Stars: Liam Neeson, Malcolm McDowell, Ron Perlman, Odette Annable
Votes: 20,377
Bethesda
17. Jade Empire (2005 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The last surviving Spirit Monk goes on a quest to save their tutor Master Li and defeat the forces of corrupt emperor Sun Hai.
Directors: Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk | Stars: Jocelyn Ahlf, Victor Brandt, Cam Clarke, John Cleese
Votes: 1,142
Bioware
18. Mass Effect 2 (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
After being revived from death and having to join a pro-human organization without a choice, Commander Shepard must assemble a team, battle a new threat, and make tough choices in order to save the galaxy from total annihilation once more.
Director: Casey Hudson | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Maggie Baird, Adam Baldwin, Michael Beattie
Votes: 21,491
Bioware
19. Fable (2004 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Once a young boy has obtained a gift for his sister's birthday, bandits attack his home village of Oakvale. A member of the Hero's Guild, Maze, stumbles upon the boy, saves him and takes the boy to the Guild to be raised as a hero.
Director: Peter Molyneux | Stars: Adjoa Andoh, Georg Backer, Emma Butcher, Luke Butcher
Votes: 3,096
Lionhead Studios
20. Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium (1993 Video Game)
Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Chaz Ashley is a hunter who lives on a planet once was green that's now a desert. He has to deal with the biomonster problem. Later he has to stop Zio the magician who wants to destroy the world and restore the computer systems.
Directors: Rieko Kodama, Kiyoshi Takeuchi, Tohru Yoshida
Votes: 141
Sega
21. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
After being framed for a murder, a monster slayer must find the assassin and clear his name.
Director: Adam Badowski | Stars: Doug Cockle, Alexander Morton, Antony Byrne, David Annen
Votes: 6,625
CD Project
22. Final Fantasy VIII (1999 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Drama
A group of students at a military academy rescue a mysterious girl, who some say is the sorceress who wants to govern the universe.
Director: Yoshinori Kitase
Votes: 6,461
Square Enix
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