Here's Best RPG Games for 2025 List

The year 2025 brings a wave of RPGs that redefine adventure, strategy, and character development on PC. These games offer sprawling worlds, intense combat, and deep storytelling. Whether you prefer action, turn-based strategy, or tabletop-inspired mechanics, this list covers the titles that set the bar this year. Each game delivers a unique experience, challenging players to explore, fight, and make decisions that shape their journey. From richly imagined mythologies to dystopian cityscapes, the following games demonstrate the full potential of role-playing in 2025.

By the way, we have the list of games dedicated to Dark RPG genre, with a few titles which we’ve not mentioned here.

Baldur's Gate 3

Baldur’s Gate 3 represents a new peak for tabletop-inspired CRPGs. The game's extensive flexibility in the face of countless potential player choices makes it the truest adaptation of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign we’ve ever seen, and its gorgeous presentation brings Faerun to life. It’s the kind of game you can put 60 hours into, beat, and then play again with a different character and have an almost completely different experience. It’s a worthy successor to Baldur’s Gate 2, and an Editors’ Choice winner for RPGs.

Black Myth: Wukong

Black Myth: Wukong boldly reinvents the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West for an unforgettable action-RPG experience. As a monkey warrior, you face off against an onslaught of bosses with deep melee and magic combat systems. Likewise, the world is rich and varied, with deep respect for its mythological cultural roots.

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen may be an RPG, but it features action-driven gameplay not unlike Capcom's Devil May Cry and Monster Hunter series. It draws inspiration from classic fables and myths, setting the game in a world burdened with the return of a destructive red dragon.

Dark Arisen's combat is flashy and engaging, and the open-world environments are rich with detail, but the quest-driven plot and sparse character development weaken what would otherwise be an interesting story. The RPG leveling stalls combat as well, so you won't fight at your full potential until you've leveled your class sufficiently. These issues may turn off less patient players, but those hoping for a grand, long-lived adventure across an action-packed open world will find plenty to discover and enjoy.

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion

Set many years prior to Final Fantasy VII's events, Crisis Core follows Zack Fair’s rise through the ranks of Shinra’s private military. Reunion is a single-player action RPG that features radical visual improvements compared to the PSP original, as well as greatly overhauled combat. You now have free-flowing combos, redesigned boss mechanics, and extensive voice work. The game has many of the narrative quirks and odd mission structures of Square Enix’s PSP RPGs during that era, but the snappier gameplay and new visuals certainly make up for it. Whip out your Buster Sword and learn the price of freedom.

Dark Souls III

With Dark Souls III, developer From Software returned to the Souls series after crafting the eldritch madness that is the PlayStation 4-exclusive Bloodborne. In fact, Dark Souls III borrows gameplay and design elements from Bloodborne and other From Software action-RPG titles. As a result, it has an action-focused flavor and gorgeous, haunting graphics.

That said, Dark Souls III has its own feel, particularly when it comes to battling monsters. The improved combat mechanics add more fighting depth, making the skirmishes more challenging and rewarding.

Diablo IV

The series that defined hack-and-slash loot-collecting returns. Diablo IV is a big, gruesome adventure with the same addictive gear-grabbing gameplay loop as its predecessors, plus many character customization options and a huge, open-world environment. Despite the mechanical and visual upgrades, this is pure Diablo through and through.

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut

If you don’t think video games should have politics, don’t play Disco Elysium - The Final Cut. If you don’t think games should aspire to say something, this detective-RPG isn’t the game for you. That’s not to say the game is a manifesto. The way it cynically, yet thoughtfully, criticizes a range of ideologies reveals the game’s politics aren’t nearly as narrow as you might expect.

But this isn’t wishy-washy centrism. Disco Elysium’s sympathies ultimately lie with working people and movements that center their best interests, despite asking you to play as cops on the other end of that equation. The brilliant role-playing mechanics and richly realized world would be impressive no matter the story, but Disco Elysium’s beating, thematic heart makes it the best PC game you can play at this moment in history.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

In a future where cybernetic augmentation is the norm, a host of medical, social, and political issues arise, threatening to divide the known world. Play as Adam Jensen, an augmented counter-terrorist super soldier, tasked with investigating terrorist cell activity in Prague, while also playing nice with violent gangsters and militaristic cops. These tough city streets are your playground, where you sneak, hack, and fight to your objectives to uncover the truth behind the terrorist activity erupting across the world.

Adam is an incredibly versatile protagonist. He excels with firearms, as well as melee offense, but is as stealthy as a cat when needed. With numerous side quests to undertake, each with open-ended solutions, there is no right way to play the game or customize Adam: build a charismatic talker, computer-hacking wizard, guns-blazing war machine, or cybernetic ghost.

Cyberpunk 2077

Based on Mike Pondsmith’s tabletop role-playing game, Cyberpunk 2077 is a bleak game that sees corporations, both foreign and domestic, keep a stranglehold on military tech, health care, cybernetic advancements, drugs, and virtually anything that the common person could want or need. You play as a mercenary, V, caught up in a job that has lasting repercussions throughout the story campaign.

You must shoot, hack, and slice your way out of trouble in this sprawling, open-world action-RPG. The title offers thrilling gameplay, atmosphere-oozing sights and sounds, and hours of story-heavy missions, but it feels a bit undercooked due to small and large bugs.

DIG: Deep in Galaxies

In DIG: Deep in Galaxies, you must save several planets that have been conquered by evil forces. The roguelike lets you liberate star systems by blasting, cutting, and plowing through environments with powerful weapons. The side-scroller features fun, fast-paced gameplay highlighted by tactically destroying the scenery to get in a better position to fight some more. Although DIG's central mechanics are mostly the same from character class to character class, it is a well-designed title that has a good amount of gameplay variety.

Dark Souls II

Dark Souls II returns to the PC, and it's every bit as terrifying as you may have heard. It avoids the missteps of its predecessor's infamous port, allowing you to focus on the rich, gloomy action-RPG world and fantastic, unforgiving gameplay.

This is a relentless barrage of demonic enemies and enraging boss encounters that will test your reflexes—and your patience. This is not a game for the faint of heart or quick of temper, so clear your desk of ceramics, take the framed pictures off the walls, and prepare to enter the dark world of Drangleic.

Another Crab's Treasure

Do you wish Dark Souls was about crustaceans and capitalism? Check out Another Crab’s Treasure. Thoughtful yet brutal combat pushes you to the limit as you level up and equip new shells with custom abilities. Or just give yourself a giant gun. Meanwhile, apocalyptic undersea levels full of human trash turn into satisfyingly tricky 3D platforming stages.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

If you can penetrate its baffling title, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 offers an intriguing blend of classic RPG gameplay with modern flair. Gorgeous graphics and attacks that require specific timing transform turn-based battles into exciting skirmishes. The lush presentation extends to the game's soundtrack, voice acting, and overall storytelling. You won't explore much off the main path, but it's a journey you should undertake.

Across the Obelisk

A chaotic genre mash-up that melds Dominion, Dungeons & Dragons, and Magic the Gathering, Across the Obelisk is a frenetic, satisfying, number-crunching title. This deck-building RPG features rich characters, multiple storylines, eye-catching art, and smooth animations, but it sometimes lacks focus and bogs down the card-acquisition thrills with minutiae. Still, it's worth a pick up if you dig card-based RPGs.