CRPG Game Recommendations

[PublicScrutiny]

Just built a pretty mid range PC that can run modern games, so that obviously means i want some old or possibly new CRPG's to play that I might not have yet. Give me anything no matter how obscure or jankey. Thanks a bunch:)!

 

[Tinhornjam]

highly recommend disco elysium if you havent played it already!

 

[Cocaine Owlbear]

Setting aside the completely obvious stuff like Baldur's Gate 1/2/3, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and so on...

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is pretty awesome. You can think of it as a spiritual successor to Suikoden. I haven't gotten that far yet, but I'm loving it so far.

Ikenfell is absolutely fantastic, with a heartfelt story-line and fun turn based combat.

I adore Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, but I am an absolute Pathfinder/Golarian fan-owlbear.

Wildermyth is one that I don't think enough people have played. It's got a great art style and great tactical combat with a procedural generated story that actually works. The stories you get aren't the deepest, but they're multi-generational and interesting.

And if you're looking for an Action RPG, Sparklite is a lot of fun. It has a SNES-era Zelda feel to the puzzles and combat, with a badge system for power ups that a kind of inventory management thing. I like it.

 

[Deleted member 560402]

LORDS OF MAGIC Special Edition. You can even make your own adventures in it.

 

[hedwig]

Pathfinder games for sure, Disco Elysium. ATOM RPG

 

[Kamako]

Disco Elysium for the superb writing, world building and characters.

Divinity: Original Sin for a more traditional CRPG with fantasy adventure questing and D'n'D flavouring.

And I've heard Planescape Torment is also excellent.

 

[qw90700]

- Jade Empire (fighting simulator RPG)

- Vampire: The Masquerade series (the games are beyond of drinking blood!!!)

- Star Wars KOTOR games (2nd game suck hard copy paste of 1st game that requires a patch to restore its ending though lol)

- STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (RPG as in create your own character, make some choices, upgrade your character, choose either light or dark side but more like action game)

- Alpha Protocol (spy RPG but have sucks AF checkpoint and therefore save system)

- Restricted Area (Diablo but Cyberpunk lol)

- Witcher series (but 2nd game sucks hard)

- Yakuza: Like a Dragon (but can your PC handle it?)

- Way of the Samurai series (they are RPG in the sense of "choose your own adventure" like books in CRPG format)

- Hard Truck Apocalypse (vehicular combat RPG in a post-apocalyptic world)

- Absolver (fighting simulator RPG like Jedi Empire but less of an RPG)

- The friends of Ringo Ishikawa (choices matter side scrolling beat um up high schooler kid simulator RPG)

- Dishonored series (this is RPG in the sense of how tabletop RPGs are as in your choices matters and you have the freedom to kill or not and game world changes according to your decisions, and it's RPG in the sense of character upgrade but less of what people understand from how a CRPG is)

- Beyond Mankind: The Awakening (the game is hard to explain. An indie FPS RPG that have a different POV on RPG genre. Better check it on Steam. But in short you create your character in terms of your genetic makeup and you choose your culture and all, and then the gameplay focuses on what kind of social standing you have with people which is not to mean as "dating simulator" at all, gameplay itself has realism like crafting and you need to eat and all, but in the end it's rather linear story based game)

 

[Pearly]

Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader, a modern masterpiece by CRPG standards and also wholly unique as it presents warhammer 40k in a digestible manner and even introductory despite it's overall depth, being considered a masterpiece of 40k fiction even in comparison with the absolute best of the books. This game managed to be what some that were disappointed by baldurs gate 3 were looking for, myself included.

I would imagine rogue trader should run fine on mid range with some settings being fiddled with.

 

[DanCalibur]

Dragon age: Origins (The last really good BioWare CRPG)
Legend of Grimrock 1 and 2 (Nice modern Dungeon Crawler RPGs)
Fable: The Lost Chapters (Chicken chasing simulator)
Deus Ex (Possibly the best FPS/RPG ever)
System Shock 2 (Horror, sci-fi, FPS, RPG and everything nice)

Those are really good and can run on any potato level machine

 

[PublicScrutiny]

LORDS OF MAGIC Special Edition. You can even make your own adventures in it.
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This actually sounds sick af

 

[Graw]

Star Wars KOTOR games (2nd game suck hard copy paste of 1st game that requires a patch to restore its ending though lol)

I always liked the second Kotor game even though it was kind of broken and incomplete. It was cool getting to choose between the light and dark side of the force and it having an actual effect on the story and your character choices.

 

[SpikeSlania]

I'm a little sad I didn't see Pillars of Eternity recommended yet. Developed by Obsidian the guys who did Fallout New Vegas and Knights of the Old Republic 2. The Pillars of Eternity series has similar game play to Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 and Icewind Dale with the real time combat with pausing mechanics. This is the series that got me to go down the CRPG rabbit hole.

Then of course I have to throw out a recommendation for Tyranny, also developed by Obsidian just instead of being a group of heroes, you're part of an evil empire that just finished conquering the land. Same real time combat with pause mechanics like Pillars.

 

[hedwig]

I'm a little sad I didn't see Pillars of Eternity recommended yet. Developed by Obsidian the guys who did Fallout New Vegas and Knights of the Old Republic 2. The Pillars of Eternity series has similar game play to Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 and Icewind Dale with the real time combat with pausing mechanics. This is the series that got me to go down the CRPG rabbit hole.

Then of course I have to throw out a recommendation for Tyranny, also developed by Obsidian just instead of being a group of heroes, you're part of an evil empire that just finished conquering the land. Same real time combat with pause mechanics like Pillars.

I will try Pillars, which has been sitting in my backlog for a long time! I beat Tyranny and liked it a long time ago, but really CRPGS require multiple plays.

 

[Fergoose]

Neverwinter Nights by Bioware.
Online roleplaying as serious or casual as you want. Also customised adventures created by others as well as player built online persistent worlds. Plus tools to be a dungeon master. Currently around 700-1000 concurrent players and whilst most persistent worlds have a fantasy D&D setting, there are other settings, including a Star Wars one.

 

[ProudPlatypus]

Might and Magic: World of Xeen. A combination of M&M 4 and 5, lovingly pressed together, so your party can seamlessly run through the full thing without being depowered, and such. It's good fun, give it a go.

I'm also midway into Rogue Trader, and it's well on its way to becoming one of my favourites.

 

[Cheeks]

Jade Empire and Dragon Age: Origins are BioWare's best games. Disco Elysium has top-notch writing. Knights of the Old Republic I and II are the best Star Wars RPGs you will play. Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous are lengthy but also feature great writing and voice acting.

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

I would recommend Legend of Grimrock if you're into modern games with a classic style and tone.
It's basically a modern first-person dungeon crawler and it runs smoothly on most modern hardware.

 

[RandomHajile]

Go play Might And Magic 6,7, and 8. Those three games really hit the sweet spot between "old school dungeon crawler" and "new school 3D graphics RPG". I think they aged really well and even though the 6th one is nearly 30 years old, it's still one of the best CRPGs you'll ever play. It can be brutal, but if you watch some guides online, you'll be fine.

 

[DorfleFlorp]

Atom RPG an Trudograd are my favorite crpgs that have came out in the last decade. also temple of elemental evil got a remaster and neverwinter nights 2 got an enhanced edition those are my recommendations.

 

[RandomHajile]

temple of elemental evil got a remaster

Not yet. It was slated for release in September, but on October 1st, they changed the date on the Steam store to "Q4 2025"

Though, as I've been talking in the steam forums and on the Codex, nobody really knows what this "remaster" really is. The screenshots look the same, and there is no mention of any collaboration with the Temple Plus team or the Circle of Eight team, both of which makes the absolutely most essential mods for this game.

To be perfectly frank, you could grab ToEE on GOG and install Temple Plus and the CO8 Vanilla mod and get a game that is, for all intents and purposes, an actual "Remaster" without having to wait for a sketchy, unknown "remaster" from a budget company with no track record.

This isn't a slight against you friend, so please don't take it that way. I'm just a huge fan of ToEE and CRPGs in general, and this particular "Remaster" has been a very controversial thing in the communities I'm a part of.