Incline RPG Codex's Best RPGs - 2024 - VOTING IS CLOSED

[MerchantKing]

Top RPGs:
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Darklands
Fallout 1

Hidden Gems:
If I tell you what they are, they won't be hidden any more.

 

[Bendu]

Top RPGs:
* Fallout
* Dark Souls
* Planescape: Torment
* Baldur's Gate 2
* Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
* Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer
* Fallout 2
* Fallout: New Vegas
* Deus Ex
* Elden Ring

Hidden Gems:
* Alpha Protocol
* Age of Decadence
* Shadowrun: Dragonfall
* Battle Brothers
* Nioh 2
* Legend of Grimrock II
* Lords of Xulima
* SpellForce 3
* Salt and Sanctuary
* Pillars of Eternity

Would have put Demon's Souls or Bloodborne instead of Elden Ring, if not for the PC release requirement.

 

[Tweed]

Tippy Top:
Betrayal at Krondor
Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos
Darklands
Deus Ex
Fallout 1
Geneforge 1
Knights of the Chalice 1
Planescape: Torment
Ultima Underworld 1
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

Gems:
Arx Fatalis
Caves of Lore
Cogmind
Der Geisterjager
Eschalon: Book 1
Knights of the Chalice 2
Nox Archaist
Paper Sorcerer
Voidspire Tactics
Warsim: The Realm of Aslona

 

[Baron Tahn]

Top Rpgs:
*Darklands
*Xeen
*Albion
*Deus Ex
*Planescape:Torment
*VTM:Bloodlines
*Anachronox
*Quest for Glory (IV)
*Ultima Underworld
*Arx Fatalis

Hidden Gems:
*Darklands
*Albion
*Anachronox
*Kenshi
*Quest for Glory IV
*Might & Magic X
*Prey (If it counts)
*Star Traders:Frontiers
*Caves of Lore
*Battle Brothers

 

[Dr Skeleton]

Top:
* Icewind Dale
* Fallout
* Planescape: Torment
* Icewind Dale 2
* Pathfinder: Kingmaker
* Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul
* Diablo

Short list because I’m excluding a whole bunch of RPGs I like, but not so much I'd put them in the absolute favorites category and are not hidden gems, like Baldur's Gate 1&2 or New Vegas, and the ones I played and liked but haven't finished, like Grimoire, Albion, Wrath of the Righteous, KoTC2 or Caves of Lore.

Hidden gems:
* Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul
* The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos
* The Dwarf Run
* Blackguards
* Dungeon Rats
* Divine Divinity
* Icewind Dale 2

 

[Nikanuur]

Baldur's Gate BWP + mods

How should this be counted, since it's BG1 and BG2 combined?

I think that BWP is the ultimate experience. Then again, if you need only one, let's make it Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn. Should I rewrite it?

 

[Cat Dude]

Top Rpgs :

1. Planescape Torment
2. Fallout New Vegas
3. Dark Souls
4. Baldurs Gate 3
5. Gothic 2
6. The Witcher 3
7. Deus Ex 1
8. Pathfinder Wrath of The Righteous
9. Morrowind
10. Wizardry 7


Hidden Gems:

1. DOS 2
2. Vampire Masquerade
3. Age of Decadence
4. Underrail
5. Fallout 2
6. Legend of Heroes Trail in The Sky
7. Persona 5
8. Dragon's Dogma
9. Deus Ex Human Revolution
10. Darklands

 

[Butter]

Baldur's Gate BWP + mods

How should this be counted, since it's BG1 and BG2 combined?

I think that BWP is the ultimate experience. Then again, if you need only one, let's make it Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn. Should I rewrite it?

Editing the post will make it easiest to tally everything up.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Why it's PC games only? There are a lot of hidden RP gems on consoles like the DS that deserve to be recognized for their value. Forbidding them in this vote will just bring up the eternally boring 10 RPGs everyone played

Silence, console peasant

 

[KvelertaK]

Top Rpgs :

01 - Planescape: Torment
02 - Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
03 - Fallout 2
04 - Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
05 - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
06 - Fallout: New Vegas - Ultimate
07 - The Witcher
08 - Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords
09 - Fallout
10 - Tyranny

Hidden Gems:

01 - Alpha Protocol
02 - Arx Fatalis
03 - Nox (2000) (Hack & Slash)
04 - Stygian: Reign of the Old One
05 - Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
06 - Divine Divinity
07 - Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut

 

[iguana_trader]

Top RPGs:
* Fallout
* Wizardry 8
* Planescape Torment
* Fallout 2
* Fallout New Vegas
* Icewind Dale
* Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
* The Temple of Elemental Evil
* Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
* Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

Hidden Gems:
* Atom RPG
* Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator
* Gorky 17
* Anachronox
* Wasteland 1
* Dungeon Encounters
* Gorasul: Legacy of the Dragon
* Siege of Avalon
* Rage of Mages
* Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption

 

[deama]

Top RPGs:
* Baldur's Gate 3
* Archolos
* Kingdom Come Deliverance
* Gothic 2
* Disco Elysium
* Arx Fatalis
* Deus Ex (2000)
* Arcanum of steamworks and magicka obscura
* Age of Decadence
* Fallout

 

[Joni Odin von Hassenstein]

Top RPGs:
1.: Gothic
2.: Planescape: Torment
3.: KotoR
4.: KotoR II
5.: Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer
6.: Vampire: Bloodlines
7.: Deus Ex
8.: Deus Ex: Invisible War
9.: Dragon Age: Origins
10.: The Witcher II

Hidden Gems:
1.: Deus Ex: Invisible War
2.: Alpha Protocol
3.: Tyranny
4.: Gamedec
5.: The Council
6.: Torment: Tides of Numenera
7.: The Wolf Among Us
8.: Gothic 3
9.: Archolos

 

[ferratilis]

Top RPGs:
Dark Souls 1
Morrowind
Baldur's Gate 2
Pillars of Eternity
Pathfinder Kingmaker
Deus Ex
Gothic 2
Arcanum
Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines
Kingdom Come Deliverance

Hidden gems:
Jagged Alliance 3
Legend of Grimrock
Arx Fatalis
Underrail
Age of Decadence
Grim Dawn
Enderal
Wasteland 2
Dark Souls 2
Deus Ex Human Revolution

 

[Red Hexapus]

TOP RPGs:
Fallout
Fallout 2
Baldur's Gate 2
Kingdom Come Deliverance
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Dark Souls
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
System Shock 2
Disco Elysium
Deus Ex

Hidden Gems:
Eye of the Beholder
Eye of the Beholder 2
Ishar 2
Arx Fatalis
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands
Gothic
World of Xeen
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss
Age of Decadence
Darklands

 

[Swen]

Top RPG:

1. BG3


Rest doesn't matter

None of the other shitty games mentioned comes even close:

https://www.gamesradar.com/baldurs-...first-game-to-win-all-five-major-goty-awards/

Baldur's Gate 3 passes Elden Ring and Breath of the Wild to become first game to win all five major GOTY awards​

 

[Zanzoken]

Tops RPGs
- Age of Decadence
- Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos
- Deus Ex
- Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
- Gothic
- Gothic 2
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- Mount & Blade: Warband

Hidden Gems
- Voidspire Tactics
- Horizon's Gate

 

[SlightlyRadioactive]

Top:
Fallout 1
Fallout 2
Gothic 1
Gothic 2
Archolos
The Witcher 1
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Baldur's Gate 2
Dark Souls

Hidden:
Anachronox
Battle for Esturia
Hard West
Divinity 2: Developer's Cut
Alpha Protocol
Risen
Tyranny
Dex
Fallout Tactics
Jade Empire

 

[Hydro]

Top RPGs:
* Baldur's Gate
* Fallout
* Diablo
* Disco Elysium
* Icewind Dale
* Underrail

 

[glorificus]

Top RPGs:
Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines
Dragon's Dogma
Witcher 3 with its expansions
Baldur's Gate III
Dragon Age: Origins
Neverwinter Nights 2 with its expansions
Morrowind
Fallout: New Vegas
KOTOR
KOTOR 2

Hidden Gems:
Daggerfall
Vampire: the Masquerade - Redemption
Jade Empire
Arx Fatalis
Betrayal at Krondor

 

[Orud]

Top RPG's:
1. Baldur's Gate 2
2. Temple of Elemental Evil
3. Icewind Dale
4. Dragon's Dogma 1
5. Baldur's Gate 1
6. Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall
7. Divinity: Original Sin 2
8. Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer
9. Deus Ex 1
10. Pathfinder: Kingmaker

Hidden Gems:
1. Drakensang: The Dark Eye
2. Nox
3. Dread Delusion
4. Stolen Realm
5. Enclave
6. Alpha Protocol
6. Dungeon Siege II
7. Low Magic Age
8. Silver
9. Omikron: The Nomad Soul
10. Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator

 

[OSK]

Top RPGs:
* Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
* Fallout
* Fallout 2
* Exile/Avernum 1
* Exile/Avernum 3
* Underrail
* Geneforge
* The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
* Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
* Deus Ex

Hidden Gems:
Caves of Lore
Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Dead State
Nethergate

 

[user]

The best kind-of-rpg is HoMM3, but the top RPG's objectively are:

1. Planescape Torment
2. Baldur's Gate II
3. Fallout
4. Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
5. Elden Ring
6. Fallout 2
7. Pathfinder: Kingmaker
8. Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
9. Neverwinter Nights 2 (MotB)
10. Deux Ex

Hidden gems:

1. Underrail
2. ToEE
3. Age of Decadence
4. Anachronox
5. Tales of Maj'Eyal
6. NieR: Automata
7. DarkSTONE
8. Kenshi
9. Elex
666. Dink Smallwood

 

[Ryzer]

Why it's PC games only? There are a lot of hidden RP gems on consoles like the DS that deserve to be recognized for their value. Forbidding them in this vote will just bring up the eternally boring 10 RPGs everyone played

Silence, console peasant

He said as he voted for Witcher 3 - and Dark Souls a console exclusive gets more and more votes or Dragon Dogma.

 

[Dyngsork]

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Top RPG's:
- Pool of Radiance
- Dark Sun Shattered Lands
- Fallout 2
- Fallout New Vegas
- Underrail
- Wasteland II
- Dragon Age Origins
- Age of Decadence
- Atom
- Pathfinder Kingmaker