Top 10 Games: RPGs
The highest-graded RPG games we have reviewed, best first.
Elden RingThe open-world formula rebuilt around curiosity instead of checklists, at a scale no one else has matched.Read the review
Cyberpunk 2077The disaster that finished becoming a masterpiece: Night City is the densest place ever rendered.
The Witcher 3: Wild HuntThe open-world RPG every open-world RPG since has been measured against, and most of them lose.
Baldur's Gate 3A tabletop campaign simulated so completely that breaking the plot becomes a feature rather than a bug.
BloodborneGothic horror that mutates into cosmic horror mid-game, powered by the most aggressive combat in the Souls line.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old RepublicThe best story the license has ever been handed, bolted to combat that is rolling dice behind a curtain.
Final Fantasy VIFourteen protagonists, an opera scene, and a villain who wins halfway through and breaks the world.
Dark SoulsOne folded, continuous world that turns geography into memory and death into a currency you learn to spend.
Fallout: New VegasEighteen months, a borrowed engine, and still the best-written RPG of its generation.
God of War RagnarökA bigger, sadder, more talkative sequel that never quite risks as much as its father-and-son core deserves.
