Elden Ring
2022FromSoftware
FromSoftware's open-world take on its demanding action-RPG formula, built with a world framework by George R.
Collection → Role-Playing Games
Role-Playing Games
The long-form branch of the medium: characters who grow, worlds that react, and stories measured in dozens of hours. These are the ones worth that time.
CD Projekt Red
A monster-hunter's story in a war-scarred fantasy world where even throwaway side quests carry moral weight and consequences.
Bethesda Game Studios
A Nordic province as a fully open role-playing world: every peak climbable, every book readable, every quest discoverable by simply walking a direction.
Final Fantasy VII
1997Square
The role-playing game that carried the genre into the mainstream, with pre-rendered cinematic staging, a setting of eco-terrorism against a corporate city, and the Materia system's endlessly combinable magic.
Chrono Trigger
1995Square
A time-traveling role-playing game made by the era's leading designers — the 'Dream Team' behind Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Dragon Ball — with battles that flow out of exploration instead of random encounters.