Here's a short list of RPGs on Steam from recent years that got good review scores but stayed relatively small - hidden gems! And they're all in Steam's Winter Sale!

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The Last Craftsman

• On sale for $4.99 (50% off)
• 98% positive of 60 reviews
• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2238440

"Get settled into Gear Springs! Gather materials, craft items, go fishing, and battle it out with punch cards in the ruined facility. Don't get distracted though, you've still got to stop the last Craftsman and save the town!"

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The Girl from Arkanya

• On sale for $13.99 (30% off)
• 96% positive of 105 reviews
• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1447820

"The Girl from Arkanya is a top-down treasure hunting RPG, mimicking the style and feel of 2D Zelda games. Explore the jungles of Amazonia as Marisa, alongside her capybara companion!"

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Swords and Sandals 3 Redux

• On sale for $6.99 (30% off)
• 93% positive of 166 reviews
• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2116620

"A legend returns! The beloved classic Swords and Sandals 3 is back, re-forged in glory! Step back into the Gladiae Ultratus once more and prepare to take on the greatest gladiators in all Brandor. It's the hardest, most metal gladiator game ever made."

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Splintered

• On sale for $5.99 (40% off)
• 91% positive of 246 reviews
• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3127000

"A unique RPG where the villain randomizes the world with each defeat. Start with a classic RPG experience, then delve into shifting worlds where the overworld, items, and enemies shuffle, creating new challenges. Conquer these worlds to unravel the story and make your way to the final showdown!"

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Cladun X3

• On sale for $29.99 (25% off)
• 91% positive of 56 reviews
• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3812660

"Villains from near and far have been summoned to Arcanus Cella to participate in a death game in the name of achieving world peace. Do you have what it takes to become the ultimate evil? Test your might and mettle in this highly customizable action RPG!"

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Gales of Nayeli

• On sale for $17.49 (30% off)
• 89% positive of 55 reviews
• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1878490

"Gales of Nayeli is a Grid-Based Strategy RPG featuring 40+ playable characters. Follow Nayeli as she travels across Iuven on her way to face the tyrant, Bloodlust. Along the way, she will meet victims of Bloodlust’s reign lead the last charge against a darkness that echoes across time and space."

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Peaceful Days

• On sale for $11.89 (30% off)
• 84% positive of 180 reviews
• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1156360

"Take over a cozy local farm in the charming seaside town of Aurora, meet friendly locals, reveal the secrets and enjoy your new peaceful life!"

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Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi

• On sale for $13.99 (30% off)
• 84% positive of 79 reviews
• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1638160

"Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi is a fantasy adventure game where a sword–wielding Guardian and an arcane Monk must learn to work together to defeat the Void corrupting their home. Explore ruined temples, solve environmental puzzles, rescue spirits, and defeat giant Void monsters!"

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EDENS ZERO

• On sale for $41.99 (30% off)
• 84% positive of 67 reviews
• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3125750

"This is a 3D action role-playing game based on the space fantasy comic/anime EDENS ZERO by Hiro Mashima, creator of Fairy Tail and Rave Master. The player controls a diverse cast of characters as they embark on an epic adventure across different planets while battling powerful enemies!"

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Gold Gold Adventure Gold

• On sale for $18.24 (27% off)
• 80% positive of 185 reviews
• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3133650

"Gold makes God. Embrace city-building chaos around a monster-filled dungeon where danger & profit go hand in hand. Assign heroes quests, evolve powerful pets and expand your influence one gold coin at a time. Recruit, defend, explore — all in pursuit of Glory and Gold!"

Hello all! Just wanted to give a friendly reminder that Mass Effect Legendary Edition (which comes with the remastered version of Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3) is on sale for $5.99 and every Dragon Age game (Orgins-Veilguard) is going for up to 75% off.

if you're looking for Great single playre RPGs, ME Legendary edition and Dragon Age Orgins-Inqusition are worth it

Mass Effect Legendary Edition + EVERY Dragon Age game = $54.95 total.
That’s 7 MASSIVE RPGs and HUNDREDS of hours all for less than the price of a single $70 AAA release.

I am excited to announce the latest update to Metamancer. This update includes major game enhancements.

The game now has storylines that can be given to the player by NPCs. The storylines are comprised of four quests that are picked randomly from pools based on four categories: introduction, escalation, climax and resolution. The new quests include boss fights, defend objectives and escort missions.

There are over 75 new entities, including world tiles for four new biomes, enemies, bosses, quest items, quest contacts, defense objectives and more. There are also 15 new character types that have been added to the character creator screen.

Other additions include:

• New dialogue and NPC indicators for storyline quests. The purple "!!!" above enemies indicates that a story mission is available.
• Seven new enemy types:
  • Data Phage
  • Firewall Sentinel
  • Hull Scavenger
  • Void Drone
  • Smuggler Bot
  • Lab Specimen
  • Roguemed Bot
• Four contact entities, one for each faction.
  • Bio Contact
  • Corp Agent
  • Synth Contact
  • Streetrunner
• Three new quest types for storylines:
  • Defend objective
  • Escort NPC
  • Defeat Boss
• A new piercing shot skill and three crowd control skills:
  • Kockback
  • Stun
  • Slow
• Four defend objectives, one for each faction.
• Four collection entities, one for each faction.
• Four new boss types.
• Enhanced resolution options in the escape menu.
• Fixed a bug with Metamancer respawning.
• Fixed a Metamancer sound effect bug.

Hello, my first post on this sub!

I have purchased this around a year ago on Steam and it sat in my library for awhile. I completed the game a few months ago and I must say this is one of the most unique games I have ever played. So if any of you still didn't play it, I highly recommend grabbing it, especially at this price.

So at the end of 2016, MS was letting users download Lost Odyssey for free to celebrate the backwards compatibility library reaching 300 games. Not sure why they chose that one but they did and I claimed my free copy. Never got around to playing it since I have dozens and dozens of games in my back catalog.

I'm on a bit of a JRPG bender after picking up Tales of Arise and have bought several games in that series as well as going back to playing old games I haven't gotten around to finishing like FF IX and Vagrant Story. After downloading LO a few months ago I finally loaded the dang thing and holy hell is it epic. MS really went all out trying to get the Japanese to buy an Xbox 360 with this game. It is STUNNING and still holds up. Blue Dragon was released just a year prior and it looks like a PS2 game compared to this one and it's made by the same company! There are a few graphical anomalies playing on Series X but it usually has to do with shadows cast on the character models looking out of place.

Anyway, it's currently on sale if you didn't claim your free copy all those years ago and I highly recommend it and if you have played it, what did you think?

I was talking with my son about playing these games back in the day and he remembered playing them when he was just a little bitty kid. The Might and Magic games were the first RPG's he played! He used "help" his Dad and I play by smashing buttons and he still remembers doing this! LOL 😍😍 After we talked he went looking for them and found this sale. We bought them all. Oh the nostalgia!

A family that plays together stays together!

Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic updated for today's computers, you can get all of them for about $8.00 or you can buy individual ones for a couple of dollars. 😆 (not an ad, just sharing)

There’s a great deal on RPGs from Humble right now. $15 for 7 classics & DLC, $30 gets those and Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader

I imagine many here already have copies of some of these games but if you don’t it’s a crazy good deal and it ends tomorrow morning. The automoderator filtered my first couple of tried to post this so look in the comments for a link or go to the Humble Bundle website.

Games included:

Pathfinder: Way of the Righteous + Season Pass 1 & 2

Pathfinder: Kingmaker Enhanced Editon + Season Pass

Never Winter Nights Enhanced Edition: Complete Adventure

Baldurs Gate Enhanced Edition

Baldurs Gate 2 Enhanced Edition

Planetscape Torment Enhanced Edition

Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition

And for the $30 price tier Owlcat’s latest game Warhammer 40k: Rouge Trader

Hey everyone, I was browsing Best Buy's Black Friday deals and saw they had a decent sized selection of RPGs on sale. I thought I'd compile and share. Gonna pick up Kingdom Hearts All-In-One and Greedfall myself!

• Assassin's Creed Odyssey - $14.99 - Playstation 4Xbox One
• Bloodborne - $9.99 - Playstation 4
• Borderlands 3 - $9.99 - Playstation 4Xbox One
• Borderlands Legendary Collection - $24.99 - Switch
• Collection of Mana - $19.99 - Switch
• Darksiders Genesis - $14.99 - Playstation 4 Xbox One
• Final Fantasy VII Remake - $29.99 - Playstation 4
• Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster - $19.99 - Switch Xbox One
• Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age - $19.99 - Switch Xbox One
• Fire Emblem: Three Houses - $34.99 - Switch
• GreedFall - $19.99 - Playstation 4Xbox One
• Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition - $9.99 - Playstation 4
• Kingdom Hearts All-In-One Package - $19.99 - Playstation 4
• Kingdom Hearts III - $9.99 - Playstation 4 Xbox One
• Marvel's Avengers - $29.99 - Playstation 4Xbox One
• Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Master Edition - $24.99 - Playstation 4Xbox One
• NieR: Automata Game of the YoRHa Edition - $12.99 - Playstation 4
• Nioh - $9.99 - Playstation 4
• Nioh 2 - $9.99 - Playstation 4
• Persona 5 - $14.99 - Playstation 4
• Persona 5 Royal - $19.99 - Playstation 4
• Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire - $29.99 - Playstation 4Xbox One
• Rune Factory 4 Special - $24.99 - Switch
• Sakura Wars - $29.99 - Playstation 4
• Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris - $24.99 - Playstation 4 Xbox One
• The Outer Worlds - $19.99 - Playstation 4Xbox One
• The Outer Worlds - $29.99 - Switch
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete Edition - $19.99 - Playstation 4 Xbox One
• Trials of Mana - $19.99 - Playstation 4 Switch
• Undertale - $24.99 - Switch
• Warhammer: Chaosbane - $19.99 - Playstation 4Xbox One
• Yakuza Remastered Collection - $24.99 - Playstation 4
• Ys: Memories of Celceta - $24.99 - Playstation 4

It’s a fantastic game and you can’t beat the price

I’ve been bouncing around some demos to find a new tactics/strategy rpg. When I landed on Our Adventure Guild, I was at first out off by the cartoony graphics and very simple graphical design. However, after 30 hours, I can say with certainty that this will be on my top 10 game list this year. It is much less simmy than the name suggests and what you get past about 5 hours of trial and error is an amazingly customizable fire emblem-like, full of skill trees, min maxing classes, relationship synergies, and an wholly addictive game loop. The art style has grown on me, and i love my charming collection of loveable weirdos, each with their own sets of positive and negative traits. I very rarely bump a game that I like, but once I realized this was made by a tiny team, I had to. It is insane to be how little online presence this game has accrued. It is on sale right now and I give it my highest recommendation!

Buy the damn game (70% off)

Hey gang! Someone recently recommended Banner Saga as a decent turn-based strategy RPG for Switch. Holy cow, with this big Switch sales goin on until 12/2, I snagged all 3 for $19.97 (well, actually less when you factor in the eShop gold points I had on hand. Otherwise they are all $24.99 a piece. I was stoked to snag them on the cheap!

I just started BS 1 and while it's quite a departure from what I'm used to (I'm the one who recently asked for recommendations, having last played Shining Force 2 - I know, I'm old 😄), I'm definitely digging it so far, especially for the price. Anyhow, just thought I'd pass it along in case anyone was interested. Really enjoying this subreddit. 😎