CRPG game recommendations

Deep character sheets, real freedom of choice and tactical combat: the classic CRPG, heir to Baldur’s Gate and Planescape, is living a renaissance. If you want dice, roleplay and consequence, these are the best picks of the style.

The 25 best CRPG games

1. 1

   Baldur's Gate III (2023)

   PlayStation · PC — PS Store ↗ · Steam ↗

   97
2. 2

   Divinity: Original Sin 2 (2017)

   PlayStation · Nintendo · PC

   95
3. 3

   Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition (2015)

   PlayStation · PC — PS Store ↗

   94
4. 4

   Word Game: Episode 0 (2021)

   PC

   93
5. 5

   Fear & Hunger 2: Termina (2022)

   PC — Steam ↗

   92
6. 6

   Disco Elysium (2019)

   PlayStation · Nintendo · PC — PS Store ↗ · Nintendo ↗ · Steam ↗

   91
7. 7

   Slay the Princess (2023)

   PlayStation · Nintendo · PC — Steam ↗

   91
8. 8

   Shadows Over Loathing (2022)

   PC

   91
9. 9

   Dragon Age: The Dreadwolf (2024)

   PlayStation · PC

   91
10. 10

    Back to the Dawn (2025)

    PC

    90
11. 11

    Farmer Against Potatoes Idle (2022)

    PC

    90
12. 12

    Pillars of Eternity (2015)

    PlayStation · PC

    89
13. 13

    Fallout (1997)

    PC

    89
14. 14

    Mosaique Neko Waifus 3 (2020)

    PC

    89
15. 15

    Death Trash (2021)

    PC

    88
16. 16

    Big Ambitions (2023)

    PC

    88
17. 17

    Geneforge 1 - Mutagen (2021)

    PC

    88
18. 18

    Brigand: Oaxaca (2017)

    PC

    88
19. 19

    Reverse: 1999 (2022)

    PC

    88
20. 20

    Divinity: Original Sin (2014)

    PlayStation · PC

    87
21. 21

    Wasteland 2: Director's Cut (2015)

    PlayStation · Nintendo · PC — PS Store ↗ · Nintendo ↗

    87
22. 22

    Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut (2014)

    Nintendo · PC — Nintendo ↗

    87
23. 23

    Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014)

    PlayStation · PC — PS Store ↗ · Steam ↗

    86
24. 24

    Fallout 2 (1998)

    PC

    86
25. 25

    Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition (2017)

    PlayStation · Nintendo · PC

    85

How this list was built: we start from a catalog of 20,827 PlayStation, Nintendo and PC games, then filter and sort by score — the critic score (Metacritic or IGDB) where it exists, the player score in the exceptions (hover a score to see its source). It is updated along with the catalog.