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787 RPG games reviewed and scored, best first.
787 reviews
A hero-collecting idle RPG with real longevity behind it — five years in Early Access, fifteen-plus progression systems and no priced Steam DLC — undercut by a currency count that outgrows the player's patience and a guild structure that quietly punishes anyone without an active group.
6.5 / 10
A relaxing pixel-art building game about fulfilling customer blueprint orders as a young garlic apprentice, praised as a "hidden gem" comparable to Coloring Pixels for players who enjoy Minecraft-style creative pixel art, with real complaints about window sizing bugs and how little the core loop actually asks of the player.
6.5 / 10
A dress-up idle auto-battler about running six simultaneous parties through dungeons for loot -- a competent, RNG-heavy hack-and-slash idle RPG whose most detailed reviewers, having actually pushed into the endgame, list a specific and credible set of design limits underneath its solid core loop, alongside disclosed AI-generated character art.
6.5 / 10
An ambitious colonial-fantasy RPG from a small studio that reviewers consistently describe as two different games — a genuinely great opening act, and a back half of repetitive fetch quests that several fans only got through with the help of community mods.
6.5 / 10
A dark fantasy skilling idle RPG that layers roaming named bosses and a weekly rhythm of world-changing "Blessings" on top of a structure several of its own reviewers, across four languages, independently call a close read of Melvor Idle — right down to the 99 skill cap.
6.5 / 10
A guild-management idle RPG with FF12-style Tactics scripting and concurrent party automation, whose launch performance crisis was corroborated by players across four language communities — and whose developer's rapid, well-documented patching earned real goodwill from many of the same players who first reported it.
6.5 / 10
The Dealer returns, and this time he's dealing cards over a bullet heaven. The card layer is the most interesting thing in the genre right now; the horde layer underneath it hasn't worked out how to make you feel powerful yet — and the deckbuilding in its own tagline is still on the roadmap.
6.5 / 10
Square Enix marketed this as a life-sim farming game and its own review corpus -- praise and criticism alike -- spent four years correcting the record. It's a JRPG with farming on the side, and knowing that before buying changes almost everything about how the game lands.
6.5 / 10
A dark-fantasy dungeon crawler that spent 2022 as an underappreciated curiosity and 2025 as a giveaway ahead of its sequel — and the two waves of reviews it produced tell almost opposite stories about the same game.
6.5 / 10
A fast, pick-up-and-play dungeon-crawling take on the survivors-like formula from the long-running Heroes of Loot series, whose omnidirectional weapon-evolution twist earns real praise while its harshest critics argue the underlying assets and simplicity haven't moved on much since the original 2015 entry.
6.5 / 10
A one-developer homage to Heroes of Might and Magic 3 that swaps turn-based combat for a real-time twist -- genuinely beloved by a dedicated fanbase with playtimes in the thousands of hours, but dogged for years by specific, well-documented complaints about AI difficulty and a multiplayer mode that reviewers say was never properly finished.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developer idle roguelite that stacks tactical auto-battles, city building, a no-cash-required gacha and a marriage system into one RPG Maker package. The systems draw genuine praise from a small but devoted audience, undercut throughout by a rough English translation that dominates almost every negative review the game has.
6.5 / 10
The officially licensed D&D idle game turns line-up positioning into a real tactical puzzle, then buries that good idea under one of the most persistent monetisation engines in the idle genre.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$5.99 solo-developed idle RPG that builds a genuinely large xianxia cultivation ladder — four realms, twelve stages, a reincarnation-and-soul-perk prestige loop — undercut by a recurring, still-unresolved save-corruption bug and a depth ceiling its own most invested players describe hitting after two or three lifetimes.
6.5 / 10
A bullet-heaven idle game with a genuinely satisfying 50-hour core campaign and a vocal, high-playtime fanbase, weighed down by a shiny-demon rarity system some players call brutal rather than rewarding, and a crash-and-corrupted-save bug still being reported months after launch.
6.5 / 10
A free-to-play boat-and-crew idler with 1,215 Steam achievements and a genuinely active two-year patch history, undercut by a store-page AI Generated Content Disclosure and a bolt-on excavation system that its own achievement data shows almost nobody finishes.
6.5 / 10
An idle tower-defense RPG that syncs your progress between phone and PC and genuinely respects the hours you put in -- right up until the upgrade menu starts asking for real money in ways the achievement list quietly admits are rare to finish.
6.5 / 10
A three-day-old idle ARPG from Chinese solo studio TUNA TUN that docks a full loot-and-buildcraft game — skill trees, randomised affixes, gem sockets, a 50-level dungeon path and an infinite Ascension ladder above it — into a fixed panel in the corner of your screen, undercut by an immovable window, a tedious itemisation flow and freeze bugs its nine early reviewers are already naming.
6.5 / 10
An idle RPG that swaps the genre's usual real-time clock for something stranger — your knight levels up from the mouse clicks and keystrokes you make in other programs entirely.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed idle RPG whose gear-absorbing prestige system and genuinely deep loot hooked hundreds of hours out of its fans -- while a hands-on bounty system that fights the "idle" label and some brutally uneven scaling keep it at Mixed rather than a genre standout.
6.5 / 10
A sprawling free-to-play idle RPG that spent 4.5 years in Early Access building one of the genre's biggest, most devoted communities -- and, by its own veteran players' account, spent the last two of those years testing exactly how much monetisation that community would tolerate.
6.5 / 10
A solo developer's cyberpunk idle management RPG lands in Early Access with a real premise, a genuinely player-friendly monetisation model, and — two days in — barely enough built to judge either one properly yet.
6.5 / 10
Lavaflame2's first idle game, and the direct ancestor of Legends of Idleon — the same skill-web formula in a single character, a smaller shop and a much shorter session length.
6.5 / 10
A free idle RPG where automated heroes grind an endless dungeon and three stacked prestige layers turn the numbers exponential — sharp and generous early on, then quietly hollowed out by the same "just maximise damage" problem that hits most of the genre.
6.5 / 10
