
Star Renegades
Massive Damage, Inc.
A gorgeous, brutally tactical RPG whose enemies actually remember you — Star Renegades pairs one of the smartest combat systems in the genre with a gr...

Marvel's Midnight Suns
Firaxis Games
Firaxis built a tactical combat system so sharp it belongs in the strategy hall of fame — then wrapped it in a friendship-simulator that alternately d...

Fear & Hunger 2: Termina
Miro Haverinen
*Termina* is one of the most punishing, uncompromising, and genuinely unsettling RPGs ever built in RPG Maker — a masterwork of dread that will either...

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Jump Over The Age
A sharper, riskier, more ambitious sequel that trades the cozy fatalism of the original for white-knuckle survival — and mostly earns the trade. If yo...

Star Traders: Frontiers
Trese Brothers
A staggeringly deep sandbox space RPG that rewards patience with hundreds of hours of emergent storytelling—if you can survive an onboarding process t...

Backbone
Eggnut
Backbone opens as one of the most atmospheric detective games in years, then throws its own genre out the window—leaving you with a gorgeous, melancho...

Tenderfoot Tactics
Kevin Maxon, Michael Bell, Isa Hutchinson, Taylor Thomas, Zoe Vartanian, Madison Pathe
A gorgeous, brain-bending tactics RPG where the terrain itself is your deadliest weapon and your worst enemy. Brilliant and uncompromising in equal me...

Afterimage
Aurogon Shanghai
Afterimage is one of the most beautiful Metroidvanias ever drawn and one of the most confusing ones ever written. Aurogon Shanghai built a sprawling, ...

Athenian Rhapsody
Nico Papalia
A solo-developed comedy RPG that treats every battle as a chance to reinvent itself — sometimes you fight, sometimes you draw the boss yourself. Uneve...

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales
DO MY BEST
A genuinely inventive premise — a cursed novelist who burgles legendary loot from inside books — carried by gorgeous ink-and-charcoal art and sharp wr...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Warhorse Studios
Warhorse Studios took a cult-classic RPG with brilliant ideas and rough edges, sanded the edges, and kept the brilliance. This is one of the most conf...

Haven
The Game Bakers
Haven is a rare thing—a game that treats an already-in-love couple as the story, not the reward. It's gorgeous, tender, and beautifully scored, but th...

Eastward
Pixpil
Pixpil's debut is a gorgeous, big-hearted love letter to 16-bit adventure games that occasionally forgets when to end a sentence — but the sentence is...

Iris and the Giant
Louis Rigaud
Louis Rigaud's card-battler about fighting your own depression is one of the sharpest, most emotionally honest roguelikes of its generation — but the ...

Nobody Saves the World
Drinkbox Studios
DrinkBox took the one mechanic every action RPG treats as a gimmick — shapeshifting — and made it the entire load-bearing wall. The result is a dungeo...

Weird West
WolfEye Studios
WolfEye's occult western is the most reactive RPG sandbox in years, built by people who understand that consequence is a mechanic, not a cutscene. It'...

Blood West
Hyperstrange
Blood West is a weird-western immersive sim that trusts you to figure things out and punishes you when you don't — a brilliant, hostile, occasionally ...

Ikenfell
Happy Ray Games
Happy Ray Games built a tactical RPG where every single attack demands your thumbs, not your MP bar — and wrapped it in the warmest, sharpest-written ...

Vagrus - The Riven Realms
Lost Pilgrims Studio
A dense, brilliantly written dark fantasy caravan sim that treats your attention as a resource it has every right to demand. It will bore anyone looki...

Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist
Adglobe, Live Wire
A sequel that outgrows its predecessor in every measurable way, *Ender Magnolia* is a gorgeous, generous, emotionally literate Metroidvania that trade...