Community The RPG Codex's Top 101 PC RPGs (With User Reviews!)

[FeelTheRads]

Kingmaker not only making it on the list, but in top 15.

Still seething over slavic gamedev slowly eating out all Obsidians fanbase alive?

No, I'm quite happy Kingmaker sold so well, because it exposed all the RTwP loving primitives who were previously hiding their plebeian tastes.

RTwP is completely superior to the Outer Worlds garbage that you white-knight now. And also to the NV garbage, since it's the same garbage.

 

[Fenix]

The fact that Underrail is only #16 is criminal. Either way, great job!

The fact that System Shock 2 is only #23 IS criminal. Either way, great job!

 

[Lady_Error]

Still faster than waiting for the loading screen in pillows

Get an SSD drive and stop whining.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

The fact that Underrail is only #16 is criminal. Either way, great job!

The fact that System Shock 2 is only #23 IS criminal. Either way, great job!

#23 is pretty good considering it's not an RPG

 

[Morality Games]

The fact that Underrail is only #16 is criminal. Either way, great job!

The fact that System Shock 2 is only #23 IS criminal. Either way, great job!

#23 is pretty good considering it's not an RPG

Honorary RPG due to creative utilization of RPG features in a different game play ecosystem.

 

[roshan]

Is it still possible to vote?

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[SniperHF]

Novelty factor. Look at many of the newer games in the 2014 version(~5 years within 2014) vs now, nearly all of them fell like a rock.
AP -21 ranks
DA:O -10 ranks
KotC -31 ranks
Witcher 2: -32 ranks
Deus Ex HR: -22 ranks
Drakensang TRoT: -33 ranks
Risen: -55 ranks(!)
Skyrim: -17 ranks
Path of Exile: -40 ranks
Grimrock: -66 ranks(!)

Not completely, but mostly for the better.
Probably a good indication some of the current flavors of the month(or last couple years) will drop a bit next time. though at least most of the current favorites are more serious RPGs than Twitcher 2, Skyrim, DX:HR, PoE, and AP. And TW2 has TW3 taking votes.

PB competes against itself with Risen, if there were more points to award I'd have given it 1 or 2 probably.
Maybe KotC will see a revival with the release on major platforms and sequel/toolset thing.

The River of Time does some neat things (particularly at a time when there wasn't much else to play) but damn it was just boring.

 

[Lady_Error]

though at least most of the current favorites are more serious RPGs than Twitcher 2, Skyrim, DX:HR, PoE, and AP. And TW2 has TW3 taking votes.

One of those is not like the others...

 

[Darkforge]

Wait.. what. You have Dark Souls II here and the vastly superior Demon Souls not on the list at all. (yeah ok it was ps3 only but fuck it.) WTF am I reading.
Also DS-II is the worst in the series. Level design is practically a series of square rooms.

Actually why the fuck are these fromsoft games here at all? and Oblivion .... woeful

 

[aweigh]

Very surprised and pleased to see Elminage mentioned in this list.

Was just about to come sperg out in here in futile autistic butthurt from seeing so many non-RPGs (like Nier: Automata, I game I like a lot but which has no place on a list like this), but thankfully managed to scroll down enough to see the entry of Elminage: Gothic before coming to the comments.

BTW, from the Wizards & Warriors entry: "For everyone who's ever gotten frustrated with Wizardry's painfully slow battles, Wizards & Warriors will be a revelation."

Might want to change that to specify that you meant Wizardry 8's combat, since one of the hallmarks of Wizardry's combat is actually its fast speed of resolution, and much faster than W&W for that matter.

 

[Grauken]

Wait.. what. You have Dark Souls II here and the vastly superior Demon Souls not on the list at all. (yeah ok it was ps3 only but fuck it.) WTF am I reading.
Also DS-II is the worst in the series. Level design is practically a series of square rooms.

Actually why the fuck are these fromsoft games here at all? and Oblivion .... woeful

This is a PC list, no console stuff that hasn't been at least ported is allowed

 

[The_Mask]

#15 - why is it there?

The rest is fine.



Also... amusing how many people are coming out of the woodwork to throw critique around, but when it was time to vote, so few showed up.

Spoiler

Is it still possible to vote?

 

[Stella Brando]

No Red Dead Redemption?

 

[HarveyBirdman]

Magnificent work felipepepe.

Special mention to HarveyBirdman and Zer0wing for writing the Oblivion reviews

I've peaked.

 

[Diggfinger]

No Red Dead Redemption?

Are you Brian Fargo?

 

[Van-d-all]

All in all I'm happy. #1 & 2 remain unchanged, AoD, P:K & Underrail in first 20. Outward, Atom, & especially Kenshi are way too low, but each had some issues so I guess it's OK.

 

[Jimmious]

Opens list. Looks at Grimoire position 22, ELEX 38. oook.

 

[SiENcE]

It is a pity that Aeon of Sands is still not on this list nor mentioned in the crpg book.

 

[Cross]

Subjective preferences aside, there are legitimate issues with this RPG list.

What is a game like Human Revolution even doing in this list? It's not an RPG, even when judged by the lowly standards of action-RPGs. There is no real progression, since all of Jensen's relevant abilities are already unlocked from the start of the game: regenerating health, regenerating bio-energy, a radar system that pinpoints where enemies are, the ability to aim accurately, perform takedowns, hack computers, etc.

Yet at the same time, an action-RPG like Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, where you can't even equip weapons and armor unless you invest skill points into the requisite skills first, is absent from the list.

 

[GrainWetski]

Subjective preferences aside, there are legitimate issues with this RPG list.

What is a game like Human Revolution even doing in this list? It's not an RPG, even when judged by the lowly standards of action-RPGs. There is no real progression, since all of Jensen's relevant abilities are already unlocked from the start of the game: regenerating health, regenerating bio-energy, a radar system that pinpoints where enemies are, the ability to aim accurately, perform takedowns, hack computers, etc.

Yet at the same time, an action-RPG like Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, where you can't even equip weapons and armor unless you invest skill points into the requisite skills first, is absent from the list.

Console retards want their mediocre console action games on the list. See #15 as well.

 

[Nano]

Subjective preferences aside, there are legitimate issues with this RPG list.

What is a game like Human Revolution even doing in this list? It's not an RPG, even when judged by the lowly standards of action-RPGs. There is no real progression, since all of Jensen's relevant abilities are already unlocked from the start of the game: regenerating health, regenerating bio-energy, a radar system that pinpoints where enemies are, the ability to aim accurately, perform takedowns, hack computers, etc.

Fuck you. Human Revolution is an RPG, and a good one at that. Should've been higher.

Direct your hate to Witcher 3 instead.

 

[Roguey]

Subjective preferences aside, there are legitimate issues with this RPG list.

What is a game like Human Revolution even doing in this list? It's not an RPG, even when judged by the lowly standards of action-RPGs. There is no real progression, since all of Jensen's relevant abilities are already unlocked from the start of the game: regenerating health, regenerating bio-energy, a radar system that pinpoints where enemies are, the ability to aim accurately, perform takedowns, hack computers, etc.

Yet at the same time, an action-RPG like Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, where you can't even equip weapons and armor unless you invest skill points into the requisite skills first, is absent from the list.

Role playing games are about narratives that react to your decisions. In DM, as far as I can tell, it's just a choice between Good Girl and Bad Girl.

 

[felipepepe]

Have you considered running a poll for particular types of crpgs? It could bring attention to very solid titles that otherwise would remain obscure. Reviews are instrumental in this, since it's very hard to find information about how some obscure game actually plays. If you were to run a poll on 20 best party-based tactical rpgs, for example, many of us might discover some real gems from the bygone era. On the other hand, there are practically no roguelikes on the list, because many people consider them an entirely separate genre.

WHY ARE THERE NO ROGUELIKES ON THIS LIST. WHERE IS ANCIENT DOMAINS OF MYSTERY.

/autism

TALES OF MAJ'EYAL IS A ROGUELIKE< THE BEST OF ALL ROGUELIKES FIGHT ME BRO

And I would like to do votes on special categories like roguelikes, blobbers, tacticool, infinity engine clone, etc... the problem is that there are many categories, some are very hard to define, and some games don't fit well on any.

Like, do you put KOTOR2 together with Baldur's Gate, Arcanum, FTL and 7.62 High Calibre as "Real-Time with Pause RPG"?

 

[Farewell into the night]

This is an inacurate list, because I didn't know I can vote.

 

[Zer0wing]

And I would like to do votes on special categories like roguelikes, blobbers, tacticool, infinity engine clone, etc... the problem is that there are many categories, some are very hard to define, and some games don't fit well on any.

Like, do you put KOTOR2 together with Baldur's Gate, Arcanum, FTL and 7.62 High Calibre as "Real-Time with Pause RPG"?

That's because you need to split by different categories, i.e. storyfag, gameplayfag that splits to TB and RT faggotry respectively, isometricfag, thirdpersonfag, first-personfag, you know what I'm meaning.