Best Role-Play Games

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a role-play collecting game where you live on a small island teeming with life.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a role-play collecting game where you live on a small island teeming with life. Insects, fish, trees, vegetation and fossils are represented with cute cartoon visuals.

Toca Life: World is part of a series of games that comprise what are essentially toys in electronic form.

Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a role-play adventure where you save the world from colourless darkness.

Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a role-play adventure where you save the world from colourless darkness. Unusually, battles are won through listening and conversation rather than traditional attacks.

Sea of Thieves is an online game where you play a pirate searching for treasure and adventure.

Sea of Thieves is an online game where you play a pirate searching for treasure and adventure. Cast into a large open sea, you work with other online players to crew your ship and find treasure.

Pokémon Sword and Shield are role-playing games where you explore a fictional world and collect different creatures called Pokémon.

Pokémon Sword and Shield are role-playing games where you explore a fictional world and collect different creatures called Pokémon. You progress through the game by exploring the world, talking to characters and winning turn-based battles with the Pokémon you've collected.

Fable is an adventure role-playing game, set in a fantasy world where your interactions with the world and villagers, and decisions about your use of magical power, substantially alter the story and the environment.

Fable is an adventure role-playing game, set in a fantasy world where your interactions with the world and villagers, and decisions about your use of magical power, substantially alter the story and the environment. Play involves exploring the world to forge your hero through your actions both in conversation and fights.

The Long Dark is a thoughtful exploration-survival game where you have crash-landed in the icy Canadian wilderness after a global disaster and must find a way to survive.

The Long Dark is a thoughtful exploration-survival game where you have crash-landed in the icy Canadian wilderness after a global disaster and must find a way to survive. Through exploring, crafting and fighting you must look after your body temperature, caloric intake, hunger, thirst and fatigue.

My Time At Portia is an adventure role-play game set after civilization has been destroyed, and humans are emerging from underground to rebuild society.

My Time At Portia is an adventure role-play game set after civilization has been destroyed, and humans are emerging from underground to rebuild society. By gathering resources, crafting and building you slowly gain the tools to collect food, store grain, chop trees and build dwellings.

Hogwarts Legacy is an open-world role-play game set in the world of Harry Potter.

Hogwarts Legacy is an open-world role-play game set in the world of Harry Potter. You control a wizard character who starts as a student at Hogwarts and then ventures out on a dangerous journey with a mystery to solve.

Horizon Forbidden West is a post-apocalyptic action adventure where you explore an overgrown landscape with now-crumbling remnants of modern life.

Horizon Forbidden West is a post-apocalyptic action adventure where you explore an overgrown landscape with now-crumbling remnants of modern life. The story of Aloy continues as she sets out to investigate a plague terminating from an arcane frontier known as the Forbidden West.

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is a role-play game and an expanded version of the DS game Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn.

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is a role-play game and an expanded version of the DS game Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn. In it, you play a young boy who travels between worlds and battles enemies in an attempt to save his mother.

Elden Ring is a role-play game set in a fictional world created by fantasy novelist George R.

Elden Ring is a role-play game set in a fictional world created by fantasy novelist George R. R.

Graveyard Keeper is a funeral-themed role-playing game where you are the caretaker of a local cemetery.

Graveyard Keeper is a funeral-themed role-playing game where you are the caretaker of a local cemetery. You make choices about how to lay out the plot, what services to offer and generally how to make money from your unusual enterprise.

Griftlands is an adventure game where you use cards to fight and negotiate your way through a broken-down sci-fi world.

Griftlands is an adventure game where you use cards to fight and negotiate your way through a broken-down sci-fi world. You will die or fail often, but then use your knowledge and growing deck of cards to have a better chance of survival on your next round of the game.

Sea of Stars is an adventure role-play game about two children of the solstice who must combine the powers of the sun and moon to save the world.

Sea of Stars is an adventure role-play game about two children of the solstice who must combine the powers of the sun and moon to save the world. Play combines turn-based combat, storytelling, exploration and interactions with the environment.

Pilgrims is an adventure game where you collect cards to help the characters you meet.

Pilgrims is an adventure game where you collect cards to help the characters you meet. As you progress you assist them to complete their little stories by offering the right cards to the right people.

Book of Travels is an unusual online role-play game that focuses on the small rather than the massive.

Book of Travels is an unusual online role-play game that focuses on the small rather than the massive. You explore an open world to find others to travel with, gather resources, craft items and learn abilities.

Palworld is an adventure simulation where you befriend and collect creatures in a vast open world.

Palworld is an adventure simulation where you befriend and collect creatures in a vast open world. Play involves building a team of creatures to fight, farm and build your base.

Dragon Quest Treasures is a lighthearted and more approachable version of the popular Dragon Quest role-play games.

Dragon Quest Treasures is a lighthearted and more approachable version of the popular Dragon Quest role-play games. Along with the exploration, light battles and resource collection is a central monster-hunting hide-and-seek challenge where you get clues to their location and steadily home in on where they are.

Adore is an action-adventure game where you play Lukha, who can summon and control creatures to fight by his side to offer simple yet satisfying combat.

Adore is an action-adventure game where you play Lukha, who can summon and control creatures to fight by his side to offer simple yet satisfying combat. Each round you set out from the hub world, clearing out a region with the creatures you've chosen to take with you.

King Of The Castle is a narrative strategy game where you play a monarch battling nobles for power in a kingdom.

King Of The Castle is a narrative strategy game where you play a monarch battling nobles for power in a kingdom. The twist is that the nobles are controlled by other players who also have their own factions and objectives.

Slice & Dice is a small retro adventure game you play by rolling dice to progress with your five heroes.

Slice & Dice is a small retro adventure game you play by rolling dice to progress with your five heroes. More than this, the faces on the dice represent your party and determine not only who can attack or defend but how likely you are to roll them.

Cassette Beasts is a turn-based collecting and battling game where you use retro cassette tapes to transform your character into different creatures.

Cassette Beasts is a turn-based collecting and battling game where you use retro cassette tapes to transform your character into different creatures. It's similar to Pokemon.

Children of Morta is an adventure game about a family of heroes, each with different abilities and enhancements.

Children of Morta is an adventure game about a family of heroes, each with different abilities and enhancements. You battle enemies and bosses while exploring dungeons within the cavern of Mount Morta and must avoid the corruption as it spreads.

Barotrauma is a cooperative space-submarine adventure set after humanity has fled to Jupiter's moon.

Barotrauma is a cooperative space-submarine adventure set after humanity has fled to Jupiter's moon. You work with other players to steer your submarine, work the ageing machinery, fight monsters and fix the endless leaks.

Caves of Qud is a survival adventure game about exploring a retro-looking post-apocalyptic future as a mutated human.

Caves of Qud is a survival adventure game about exploring a retro-looking post-apocalyptic future as a mutated human. Like a Dungeons & Dragons adventure, you explore the world while dealing with dangerous creatures and obstacles, in a quest to find safety.

Fable II is an adventure role-playing game, set in a fantasy world where your actions impact the story, the people and the places you visit.

Fable II is an adventure role-playing game, set in a fantasy world where your actions impact the story, the people and the places you visit. Play involves exploring the world to forge your hero through your actions both in conversation and fights.

Fable III is an adventure role-playing game, set in a fantasy world where your actions impact the story, the people and the places you visit.

Fable III is an adventure role-playing game, set in a fantasy world where your actions impact the story, the people and the places you visit. Play involves exploring the world to forge your hero through your actions both in conversation and fights.

West of Loathing is a comedic adventure where you roleplay as a stickman cowboy.

West of Loathing is a comedic adventure where you roleplay as a stickman cowboy. The quipping characters and intricate puzzles work best with teenagers, but the slapstick comedy will make anyone laugh.

Genshin Impact is a role-playing adventure set in a fantastical open world you explore by walking, climbing, swimming and gliding.

Genshin Impact is a role-playing adventure set in a fantastical open world you explore by walking, climbing, swimming and gliding. Like the Zelda games, you can collect items, and craft new weapons.

Dicey Dungeons is a video game adventure where you build a deck of cards to represent characters, attacks and weapons.

Dicey Dungeons is a video game adventure where you build a deck of cards to represent characters, attacks and weapons. Here the novelty is that these cards combine with dice rolls to determine who wins battles.

Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You is a narrative game where you play fictional research using a surveillance program called Orwell.

Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You is a narrative game where you play fictional research using a surveillance program called Orwell. Through a series of episodes, you are tasked with using Orwell to help solve mysteries like the bombing of a public plaza.

Dragon Age: Origins is an action role-play game with an emphasis on combat and player choices.

Dragon Age: Origins is an action role-play game with an emphasis on combat and player choices. You play the hero in the medieval fantasy world of Thedas, exploring the world and using your power to stop the impending darkness spread across the land.

Unsighted is an action role-play game where you race against the clock to save your robot friends.

Unsighted is an action role-play game where you race against the clock to save your robot friends. You play a robot called Alma who has lost their memory and lives in a ruined world after the human war.

Roblox is a gaming system where amateur game-makers create simple online games that often mimic real-world grown-up scenarios, like working in a pizza restaurant, surviving natural disasters, escaping prison, scuba diving or playing hide-and-seek.

Roblox is a gaming system where amateur game-makers create simple online games that often mimic real-world grown-up scenarios, like working in a pizza restaurant, surviving natural disasters, escaping prison, scuba diving or playing hide-and-seek. The library of games is fast-changing and specific games mimic the evolving rules of playground games.

Portal Knights is an adventure set in a Minecraft-like world, that focuses much more on role-play and characters.

Portal Knights is an adventure set in a Minecraft-like world, that focuses much more on role-play and characters. You still have the exploration and building elements, but also more story and monsters to take down.

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L.O.L. Surprise Official Party is a Roblox game based on the popular collectable toy brand.