RPG Video Games To Buy | The best of 2022
To date the market is full of games of role for all palates. For those who love classic fantasy, but also for those who love throwing themselves into a future from the Cyberpunk aesthetic to the purest science fiction. In this guide you will find some of the best exponents of the genre, but before starting we remind you that, among the other guides available on our Game Division pages, you will also find one dedicated to the best JRPGs or, if you prefer, one dedicated to the best chapters of Final Fantasy.
The best RPGs
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Elden Ring Mass Effect: Legendary Edition The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Fallout 4 Divinity Original Sin 2 Assassin's Creed: Valhalla Cyberpunk 2077 The Outer WorldsThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is reputed to be one of the masterpieces of the genre. The CD Projekt title mixes the most classic role-playing elements with a narrative rich in elements and a pre-set character with great character and iconicity. Inspired by the tales of the book series by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt will immerse you in a fanatic world full of variety and with always different characters and creatures, so as to give you hours and hours of fun. The GOTY edition also includes the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions.Elden Ring
Although part of the soulslike trend, Elden Ring also embodies a whole host of pure RPG features. From Software's new effort is already one of the most popular video games of the year, and this certainly owes it to the great quality with which it is presented on the market. As the Japanese team has accustomed us well, even in Elden Ring we will take possession of a customizable avatar in every physical aspect but not only. The open world experience has no shortage of attributes to evolve as you go and skills to learn along the tortuous path to the search for the Ancestral Ring.» Click here to buy Elden Ring for PS4
Mass Effect
The Mass Effect saga is a real cult for fans of RPGs and science fiction. We are talking about an epic that will take you to explore a galaxy full of different planets, inhabited by races with their own unique ideals and motivations. The recent Legendary Edition allows you to enjoy the first historical trilogy, with an almost completely revised first chapter that is still today a great little videogame pearl. The story of Commander Shepard is also joined by Mass Effect Andromeda, a chapter less appreciated by fans but which still knows how to give a new point of view to the saga.The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim needs no introduction. Bethesda's fantasy RPG, originally released a decade ago, is still on the crest of the wave. The title has been revived on PS4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch in a Special Edition that has made it even more beautiful. Along with the basic experience, all the DLCs and some small aesthetic refinements have been added, including the change of color palette. Skyrim remains a practically boundless open world RPG, which, if you love immersive worlds and fantasy atmospheres, you can explore for hundreds of hours without ever getting tired or bored.» Click here to buy The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim: Special Edition Nintendo Switch
Fallout
In addition to The Elder Scrolls, Bethesda also has a post-apocalyptic RPG in its ranks. We are obviously talking about the Fallout saga, which, after passing to the third person with a third beloved chapter, has become one of the cult series for lovers of the genre. Fallout 4 is starting to have a few years on its back, but with the GOTY version you will be able to get lost in the wastelands for endless hours of gameplay. If you are intrigued by a mixture of RPG and online multiplayer, then the latest Fallout 76 is the choice for you.Divinity Original Sin 2
Now is the time to throw ourselves into a much more classic RPG. Divinity 2 Original is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful tactical and isometric RPGs around: Developed by the talented Larian Studios, the Belgian development house that currently also has Baldur's Gate 3 in the pipeline, Divinity Original Sin 2 is definitely not a video game for all of them and certainly not the best RPG for newbies to the genre. However, if you have already chewed on some RPGs with complex mechanics and are looking for new challenges, it could be the right opportunity to immerse yourself in his world, one of the best built ever in an RPG, and clearly inspired by a true legend of paper role-playing games, such as Dungeons & Dragons.Assassin's Creed
Although the saga did not start out as an RPG, with the latest iterations of Assassin's Creed Ubisoft has thrown into the cauldron a series of mechanics that have brought the franchise closer to an RPG. It all started with Assassin’s Creed Origins, the chapter set in ancient Egypt and which has evolved the game formula. This change was refined first with Assassin's Creed Odyssey, which took players to ancient Greece, and finally with the more recent Assassin's Creed Valhalla, the latest adventures in the saga that put us in the shoes of Eivor in an era in which the Vikings besieged the coasts of Great Britain.» Click here to buy Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 did not get off on the right foot and still suffers from several problems on consoles, especially the standard ones. The new work by CD Projekt is inspired by the board role-playing game Cyberpunk 2020, and net of the problems (to be resolved via patch) it remains a work with exceptional writing and a complex and visionary plot, which will transport you into a world of cyberpunk aesthetics with attention to the last detail. The pride of the whole experience is undoubtedly the city of Night City, which is by right one of the best settings ever seen in a video game.The Outer Worlds
We close this buyer's guide with The Outer Worlds, Obsidian Entertainment's newest RPG, which also hosts a number of developers of the first Fallout classics. Given these premises, The Outer Worlds proves to be one of the best science fiction-themed RPGs of recent years. Alongside the more classic mechanics of an RPG, there is a structure that takes something from the latest Bethesda productions, and a constant and cutting irony that will constantly surprise you, the latter is one of the greatest strengths of the entire experience. br>How to choose an RPG to buy
The role-playing game has its roots well before the arrival of video games, but thank you to this interactive medium we can say that the RPGs have managed to evolve on several levels. From the first exponents of the genre in videogame format to today things have changed, and today we can find all kinds of role-playing games. Over time, moreover, many elements of RPG have also resulted in adventures with more action rhythms and more. In short, there are plenty of video games of the genre, and we have chosen only some of the best exponents of the genre that today are not lost.For explorers of fantasy worlds
One of the founder of the modern RPG is without a doubt The Elden Scrolls V Skyrim. Although we're talking about a game from over ten years ago, Bethesda's fantasy RPG is still an experience to live in and get lost in at all costs. If you prefer a more classic RPG to the first person, the perfect choice is that wonderful Diviniy Original Sin 2: an infinite RPG capable of giving you endless adventures.The best sci-fi universes
RPG mechanics can be applied to any imaginative world, allowing players to take part in journeys to unimaginable destinations. If you prefer science fiction to fantasy there are legendary experiences like the Mass Effect trilogy that you absolutely cannot miss. Also worth mentioning is The Outer World of the masters of the Obsdidian genre: a space RPG full of comedy and irony, but also the more recent Cyberpunk 2077, which has recently been corrected in many of its critical aspects.RPG for all tastes
But it doesn't stop there, and given that RPG mechanics can potentially marry well with different contexts, there are a whole series of more atypical role-playing video games that are nothing short of unmissable . Among these, the very recent Elden Ring certainly ends, a title with strong RPG components but which, within it, offers players a particularly demanding level of challenge.Impossible not to mention the Fallout saga with its post-apocalyptic context. Another Bethesda saga that in recent years has been able to entertain fans of the RPG genre with adventures in desolate and story-filled futures. The Ubisoft saga of Assassin's Creed has also expanded towards some RPG mechanics lately, and just think of how Valhalla has taken over and improved many of the RPG elements introduced first in Orgins and then in Odyssey.
