The Best RPGs Of The Past Decade, Year By Year
The Best RPGs Of The Past Decade, Year By Year
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The Best RPGs Of The Past Decade, Year By Year
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The Outer Worlds quickly became one of 2019's standout RPGs, rivaling acclaimed titles like Disco Elysium, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and even Kingdom Hearts 3. Developed by Obsidian, it delivered a witty, choice-driven experience that recalled the spirit of Fallout: New Vegas while offering a fresh, satirical take on corporate-dominated sci-fi worlds.
Its blend of sharp dialogue, branching narratives, and flexible character builds gave players true freedom in shaping their story. While some other RPGs of the year were truly unique, The Outer Worlds balanced humor, accessibility, and depth, giving it the chance to reach players who might need an accessible genre gateway before giving games like Disco Elysium a chance. With Outer Wilds 2 set to release soon, interest in the franchise is at an all-time high.
The LLM they used to generate this list doesn't even know the difference between The Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds
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Outer Worlds over Disco Elysium? Clown list.
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Absolutely insanity.
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That was really an obvious sign that this list is trash, i agree
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Literally sackable offense.
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Safe sanitized normie-core list that doesn't deserve an article.
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Some weird choices in this one, like completely ignoring Cyberpunk 2077 exists.
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You mean the game that forced companies to take it from their stores? Weird choice for GOTY…
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It didn't become goty until like three years after it released, lmao.
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On the Playstation store, yes. On PC it was mostly fine, if a bit buggy because it was released too early (as so many games are unfortunately). But I and many other people enjoyed it just fine at launch, and it has gotten better and better every year since then. It's still getting new content and patches 5 years after launch, and the modding scene is absolutely crazy right now, so many good stuff being released.
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Cyberpunk 2077 is one of my favorite games, but even retcon-ing it in its current state with phantom liberty, it is not as good as any of the games on this list post its initial release.
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Yeah maybe because the game was good two years after the initial release haha
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Not an RPG. You make literally two real choices the whole game: who you are (at the start), and what you're going to do (at the end). The developers themselves have said that the game is not a RPG, and more like a shooter with some RPG elements when they were criticized about this.
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Although I have to agree that the list doesn't seem to care about this, as they've put Dark Souls, Monster Hunter and Elden Ring as RPGs...
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This is so wrong I don't even know where to start. There is an very convoluted web of how choices in literally dozens of quests affect other quests and other things in the world. There are hours and hours and hours of videos on Youtube going through all the choices you have and all the possible outcomes they give you and all the different endings the game has if you make the right choices.
And since when are we gatekeeping the term RPG? Even the Wikipedia article opens with "Cyberpunk 2077 is a 2020 action role-playing game"... It's also based on a pen-and-paper RPG, and it's original creator, Mike Pondsmith, is involved in the creation of this game and it's upcoming sequel. I'm not sure how much more RPG you can be than that?
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I call BS, no mention of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1 and 2 and no Cyberpunk. They fail to give a clear idea of what qualifies as a rpg, but I guess the definition itself is a bit too broad.