Actually popular RPGs that have 2D graphics and came out later than 2010

[Tavernking]

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[Thac0]

Crosscode immediatly comes to mind. Some odd mashup of Zelda and Star Ocean made in Germany that has reached ridiculous success for how small the development studio is.

Also there are the easy answers like Terraria and the very recent Loop Hero.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

stardew valley

 

[Lord_Potato]

Dex

 

[Savecummer]

undertale

 

[Alpan]

The Banner Saga games. The first one, at least, was reasonably popular.

 

[JarlFrank]

More than you can fucking count, do you live under a rock?

Or do you define popular as "AAA dozens of millions of units sold"?

Terraria is hugely popular 2D Minecraft.
I guess Rimworld has RPG elements, and it's also hugely popular.
Stardew Valley, same. Light RPG elements, hugely popular.
Underrail is pretty popular within the RPG hobbyist sphere, Sseth made a video about it on youtube and its sales skyrocketed after that.
Pillars of Eternity is somewhat popular, even though many people think it sucked (because it does).
The Shadowrun Returns games were popular too.
Battle Brothers is fairly popular.
Banner Saga was a pretty popular game, known even in the mainstream.
Darkest Dungeon is also widely known in the mainstream.

 

[Ysaye]

Are you doing market research for your game?

Do you count all the Baldur's Gate clones in P:KM, Pillars of Eternity 1&2, Disco whatever etc. that are essentially 2D and were somewhat reasonably popular as RPGs go?

Darkest Dungeon springs to mind, if we count that as an RPG? Also Dragon Crown if again we count that as an RPG?

 

[Dodo1610]

The closest thing to 2D AAA CRPG we got since then were the South Park RPGs.

Besides that literally, every indie Action RPG from 2011's Bastion to today has some kind of retro 2D graphics.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Realms of Arkania HD

 

[Sweeper]

Is Battle Brothers popular?

It's popular in the same way that Underrail is popular, in that it's largely unknown by normies, but the autists will play it (and discuss it) religiously...
So I guess the answer is no. It's not.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Does FTL count?
I think it had an entry in felipepepe's book.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Salt & Sanctuary is essentially a 2D interpretation of Demon's/Dark Souls, and therefore only marginally an RPG, but it did enjoy a considerable amount of commercial success and was released in 2016.

Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar, although disregarded by the hoi polloi, is popular among the hearts of prestigious Codexers, indisputably an RPG, and released in 2017.

 

[Moaning_Clock]

Maybe go with review count for really popular? Everything around 500 reviews should at least sold 10000 copies on Steam.
Exiled Kingdoms, Sword of the Starts: The Pit. If you only consider wildly successful like over 10k reviews - Undertale, Darkest Dungeon, Stoneshard.
Dunno which of these count as true rpgs though

 

[Eirinjas]

More than you can fucking count, do you live under a rock?

Uh.. we need a "maybe" button.

 

[Drowed]

Popular is a somewhat complicated definition for the kind of thing you are asking for. 2D RPGs are, by definition, a niche. So obviously they will have a relative popularity. Also, it depends on how literal you are being when you talk about "2D graphics". But, here's some games, including action RPGs:

The real "BIG" ones (AKA, RPG fans who frequent the forum know at least the name):

• Underrail
• Avadon 1, 2 , 3, and Queen's Wish: The Conqueror (anything Vogel did last decade)
• Tyranny / Pillars 1 and 2 / Torment / Pathfinder (depending on your definition of "2D")
• Bastion, Transistor and Hades
• Telepath Tactics
• Tales of Maj’Eyal
• Shadowrun (3 games)
• Serpent in the Staglands
• Stardew Valley
  
• Disco Elysium
  
• Darkest Dungeons
  
• ADOM (Steam Version)
• Undertale

The "relatively famous within their respective niches", but maybe not really:

• Voidspire Tactics / Alvora Tactics / Horizon's Gate
• The Tenth Line
• Sword of the Stars: The Pit
  
• Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius
  
• Stranger of Sword City
  
• Stone Shard (in EA)
• Star Traders: Frontiers
  
• Star Story: The Horizon Escape
  
• Shattered Planet
  
• Shadows of Adam
• Secrets of Grindea (in EA for... like... 8 years?)
• SaGa Frontier Remastered (and other Square remakes)
  
• The Quest
• Overfall
  
• NEO Scavenger
• Moonlighter
  
• Monster Sanctuary
• Masquerada: Songs and Shadows
  
• Lords of Xulima
  
• Long Gone Days
  
• Immortal Planet
  
• ICY: Frostbite Edition
  
• Hellenica
  
• Halfway
  
• Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
  
• Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
  
• Dungeons of Dredmor
  
• Dungeonmans
• Dead In Vinland
  
• DEX
• CrossCode
• Cosmic Star Heroine
• Citizens of Earth
  
• Child of Light
  
• Bug Fables (kinda but not really)
• Bastard Bonds
• Banner Saga 1, 2 and 3
• Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan
  
• AntharioN

 

[Moaning_Clock]

The "relatively famous within their respective niches", but maybe not really:

Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley sold over 10 million copies. For comparison: Skyrim has like 30-50 million copies (30 million was the last number I know of, and this is 5 years ago). Stardew Valley is like the definition of success.

 

[Kev Inkline]

The "relatively famous within their respective niches", but maybe not really:

Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley sold over 10 million copies. For comparison: Skyrim has like 30-50 million copies (30 million was the last number I know of, and this is 5 years ago). Stardew Valley is like the definition of success.

Yeah, funny to think that Serpent of the Staglands (at most 50K copies sold) would be somehow more known than Stardew Valley. It is likely quite close to the top of the list, actually.

 

[Drowed]

Stardew Valley sold over 10 million copies. For comparison: Skyrim has like 30-50 million copies (30 million was the last number I know of, and this is 5 years ago). Stardew Valley is like the definition of success.

You are right, actually it is because it is 3 in the morning here and I made a list of all the RPGs I remember and manually picked up the most famous ones later to put on the top list, I just forgot to change the position because I didn't see it. Banner Saga also sold comparably well I think, but since I'm not sure, I left it on the bottom list.

QUICK EDIT: I remember also reading that Secrets of Grindea would have sold about half a million copies which, for the genre, is quite a lot. But I don't have the source of that either.

 

[Moaning_Clock]

happens, been there often haha - I'm just always way too interested in sales numbers. I see it on a regular that the view on sales numbers is heavily distorted by the forums/subreddits/social media one frequents. Underrail for example almost certainly sold less than Stoneshard - but it isn't nearly as often mentioned here and I don't think people would believe this right away

 

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