Action RPG
36 games reviewed, ranked by score.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
The Bloody Baron alone outwrites most full games
Hades
The Roguelike That Made Death Worth Repeating
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
A turn-based RPG that parries you straight into grief
Hades II
Supergiant Sharpens Its Roguelike Until Only Story Drags
Path of Exile
Theory-crafting is the true endgame, with a cliff for an on-ramp
Cyberpunk 2077
Night City clawed its way back from disaster
GRIME II
Absorbing enemies as your kit, across too many jumps
Vampire Survivors
Five Euros for the Genre's Founding Snowball
Onimusha: Way of the Sword
A glorious blade that deserves a sharper foe
The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot
A budget kick-into-spikes sandbox that punches far above its price
DragonSword : Awakening
Gacha stripped out, tag-team combos left gloriously intact
Rubinite
Boss rush that shines, then hides its ending behind no-hit runs
The Riftbreaker
A mech, a base, and a planet that wants both gone
FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE
The Midgar chapter earns it. The padding between does not.
Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition
Robot Dinosaurs and Brilliant Combat Trapped in Ubisoft's Map
Pax Autocratica
A tyrant loop that clicks, if the workers keep working
Ascend to ZERO
Time-stop combat worth the tenner, if the crashes spare your save
FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH
A brilliant combat RPG drowning in checklist sludge
Voidling Bound
Breeding voidlings is a joy, three mission types aren't
33 Immortals
A 33-player boss rush worth joining, if the servers hold
Arms of God
Fusing five weapons feels great, the circle-running maps don't
Romestead
Co-op rebuilding clicks with friends, grinds alone
Yet Another Zombie Survivors
Squad synergies lift the survivors loop before the builds converge
Cursemark
Rune-breaking synergies worth chasing, if the bugs and thin content don't stop you
Meta Ghost: Breaking Show
Sharp cyberpunk build-crafting, sabotaged by run-ending crashes
Funguys Swarm
A charming swarm that crashes before it burns out
Hell Maiden
Gorgeous descent into Hell, tripped by run-ending crashes
Witchspire
Charming witch sanctuary, undercut by lost levels and host-only loot
Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault
A smarter shop loop buried under crashes and clumsy combat
R.I.P. - Reincarnation Insurance Program
Its loot-and-shoot loop clicks. The controls do not.
FINAL FANTASY XIII
Paradigm-switching brilliance locked behind twenty hours of hallway
Wanderburg
Its mobile fortress is a joy to build, a pain to run.
Hogwarts Legacy
Hogwarts Looks Stunning – Underneath It's Just Generic Open-World Busywork
Mistfall Hunter
Weighty souls combat gated behind trios, desync and gacha
Mahou Arms
Gorgeous magical girls, four combos, and eight years unfinished
RAIDBORN
Solid dungeon loops, gutted by a day-one magic paywall