Historical RPGs

[Crane]

Men,

I'm looking for some RPGs that have actual history or are influenced by them. Any period is fine. I'm just sick of the same fantasy shit over and over again. I've play Darklands, and please don't say Jade Empire.

 

[Krivol]

Kingdom Come ?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Expeditions Conquistador and Vikings.
Also Legends of Eisenwald.

And realms of Arkania HD.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Have you tried the Witcher series? It's fantasy, but it's kind of like adult fantasy, i.e. no wizards casting fireballs every 2 steps, but rather a fairly grounded medieval type society similar to medieval Europe, with some fantasy elements.

 

[Crane]

Have you tried the Witcher series? It's fantasy, but it's kind of like adult fantasy, i.e. no wizards casting fireballs every 2 steps, but rather a fairly grounded medieval type society similar to medieval Europe, with some fantasy elements.

I've played all the Witcher games. They may be more adult, but they're not historical.

 

[Mustawd]

Nethergate.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/218020/Nethergate_Resurrection/

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

Teudogar and the Alliance with Rome. I think there’s a thread somewhere around here about how you can download it and get it to run on Windows 10.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

ATOM RPG is a video game/historical documentary about living in Russia in the 21st century

 

[Tigranes]

Expeditions games, Legends of Eisenwald, Kingdom Come all do a very good job of evoking the historical feel without being a walking history book per se.

And there's a certain Codexer-made Theseus, set in Classical Greece!
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...urney-to-athens-c-c-rpg-made-in-gms-2.118904/

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Kim is about Kipling inspired colonial India.

 

[Lord_Potato]

To sum it up

Historical rpgs:
- Alexander: the Heroes Hour (ancient Greece and Persia during the reign of Alexanderthe Great)
- Teudogar and the alliance with Rome (ancient Germania during Roman attempt of conquest)
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance (medieval Bohemia)
- Sea Dogs (XVI century, era of Carribean piracy)
- Vendetta: Curse of the Raven's Cry (XVII century, era of Carribean piracy)
- Kim (XIX century colonial India)
- Hammer & Sickle (early cold war Germany)

Historical rpgs with mystical/mythical elements:
- Five Guardians of David (hack&slash in Biblical Israel)
- Prince of Qin (ancient China + magic)
- Seal of Evil (prequel to Prince of Qin)
- Unrest (ancient India + magic)
- Theseus: journey to Athens (ancient mythological Greece)
- Rise of the Argonauts (mythical Greece, no actual connection to actual place, for example Delphi is an island)
- Nethergate and Nethergate Ressurection (Jeff Vogel's vision of ancient Britain during the Roman conquest, with magic)
- Expeditions: Viking (medieval Denmark and England)
- Darklands (medieval Germany with witches and demons)
- Bastard of Kosignan (5 module campaign for Neverwinter Nights, medieval Burgundy, Germany and France with some degree of magic)
- Expeditions: Conquisador (XVI century America)
- Age of Pirates: the Carribean Tales, Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships (XVI century, era of Carribean piracy, with fantasy elements like the udead)
- Dark Secrets of Africa (XIX century in colonial Africa, search for the mysteries of the pyramids and more)
- Another War 1&2 (2nd World War + occult activities of the nazis+weird humor)
- Grom: Terror in Tibet (2nd World War, nazis searching for ancient artifacts of power in Asia)

Pseudohistorical rpgs with weird shit (aliens, worldwide conspiracy theories, space artifacts):
- Assassin's Creed: Origins (ancient Egypt)
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (ancient Greece)
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla (medieval Scandinavia and England)

More titles incoming when I (someone else) refresh my memory. But they are not very numerous.

Since there are some jrpgs contributions, I am considering adding the 4th category: Pseudohistorical jrpgs or simply putting them in the 3rd category.

 

[laclongquan]

Hammer & Sickle, a Cold-War spy action turnbased tactic RPG, setting in Germany 1946-7

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Any incarnation of Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sword of the Samurai and Sid Meier's Covert Action.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

To sum it up

Historical rpgs:
- Teudogar and the alliance with Rome (ancient Germania during Roman attempt of conquest)
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance (medieval Bohemia)
- Expeditions: Conquisador (XVI century America)
- Expeditions: Viking (medieval Denmark and England)

Historical rpgs with mystical/mythical elements:
- Five Guardians of David (hack&slash in Biblical Israel)
- Prince of Qin (ancient China + magic)
- Seal of Evil (prequel to Prince of Qin)
- Theseus: journey to Athens (ancient mythological Greece)
- Rise of the Argonauts (mythical Greece, no actual connection to actual place, for example Delphi is an island)
- Nethergate and Nethergate Ressurection (Jeff Vogel's vision of ancient Britain during the Roman conquest, with magic)
- Darklands (medieval Germany with witches and demons)
- Bastard of Kosignan (5 module campaign for Neverwinter Nights, medieval Burgundy, Germany and France with some degree of magic)
- Another War 1&2 (2nd World War + occult activities of the nazis+weird humor)
- Dark Secrets of Africa (XIX century in colonial Africa, search for the mysteries of the pyramids and more)

Pseudohistorical rpgs with weird shit (aliens, worldwide conspiracy theories, space artifacts):
- Assassin's Creed: Origins (ancient Egypt)
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (ancient Greece)

More titles incoming when I (someone else) refresh my memory. But they are not very numerous.

Expeditions: Viking falls into the second category iirc

 

[Lord_Potato]

Expeditions: Viking falls into the second category iirc

I didn't play Vikings yet. Care to provide more info so I could move it to the 2nd category?

 

[Falksi]

A great game which is rooted in history, includes such tie-ins as WW1 & the Russian Tsars, and also has a superb blend of fantasy & reality to boot is Shadow Hearts:Covenant.

One of the main reasons I loved it is because it managed to feel so attached to the real world, whilst also having tons of batshit mental fantasy stuff in too. You get to travel round Europe, and then further East too. There's nothing in the way of actual open-world type exploration, but it really gives the game a great flavour moving around all these areas.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Any incarnation of Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sword of the Samurai and Sid Meier's Covert Action.

Do they really have rpg mechanics, like character development? I don't remember it from Pirates but played it many years ago. Never played covert action

 

[Avonaeon]

Expeditions: Viking falls into the second category iirc

I'd move Conquistador there as well then. They have the same approach to mythological elements and about the same amount as well. I'd actually say Viking is the more grounded one of the two.

 

[Neanderthal]

Lionheart sort of.

 

[Darth Roxor]

GROM, aka nazis in Tibet

 

[Darth Canoli]

I. B. Ballin
Any Game of Thrones game as game of thrones is based on the hundred years war, not sure if any of them is worth playing though.

Otherwise, already listed but what you're searching for is probably the expedition series and Eisenwald.

 

[Martyr]

Any Game of Thrones game as game of thrones is based on the hundred years war, not sure if any of them is worth playing though.

the Game of Thrones RPG is among the top 3 best storyfag RPGs I've ever played.

 

[JarlFrank]

- Another War 1&2 (2nd World War + occult activities of the nazis+weird humor)

Wait... there's a sequel to Another War?!?!?!?!?

 

[JarlFrank]

Also, Unrest is set in India:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/292400/Unrest/

 

[RK47]