The Action RPG Zone

Role-playing games where real-time combat matters as much as stats and builds.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

Deskrawl: Idle ARPG - Players say: Choose a hero to auto-fight fantasy stages, collect gear and capturable minions, and grow stronger in a desktop-bottom idle ARPG. Players like: Desktop Background Play · Loot-Fueled Progression · Class and Build Choices ·
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Grind mobs, farm loot and capture enemies to serve you. Deskrawl is an epic idle ARPG that plays at the bottom of your desktop. Farm legendary items and build overpowered heroes while you work or chill.

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Sep 28, 2026
76% 👍
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Kernel Hearts - Gather your allies. Eliminate Angels. Transform into a Magical Girl. Slay god. Kernel Hearts is a Multiplayer Co-Op Roguelike Action RPG about four magical girls and their attempt to save a world that's drowning in ashes
Code Velocity - 《Code Velocity》is a cute chibi-style casual competitive typing game. Players can play as cops or thieves, with movement speed determined by their typing speed and accuracy. In real-time matchups, use props, compete for vehicles, and experience intense chase showdowns!
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Sep 15, 2026
100% 👍
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Golden Swirl - Golden Swirl is a dark fantasy, semi-real-time action deckbuilder. Master tactical movement to dodge fierce attacks while managing your hand. Fully voiced with custom heroes, fine-tune your deck, relics, and runes to repel the Swirl. Can you survive the madness?
Withering Realms - A ghost and her doll guardian explore the mysterious town of Penwyll and the sprawling graveyards, tombs, caves and rotting estates that surround it in this Horror Action RPG from the creator of Withering Rooms.
Scavland - Players say: As a Vulture in Mist-ravaged Zalesye, scavenge, fight, take jobs and modify weapons to survive and push deeper into the wastes. Players like: Atmosphere and Audio · Exploration and Loot · Weapon Customization ·
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Scavland is a hardcore Top-Down Pixel Art survival RPG set in a Post-Apocalyptic Soviet world. Scavenge the wastes and forgotten bunkers, take dangerous jobs, build your reputation, and customize your arsenal as you fight to survive mutants, hostile survivors, radiation, and the deadly Mist.

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We Are The Dwarves - Players say: Lead three dwarf astronauts through hostile stone-space, pausing real-time combat to plan commands and combine their distinct abilities. Players like: Distinctive Space-Dwarf Setting · Tactical Pause Planning · Atmospheric Visuals ·
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We Are The Dwarves is a real-time tactical adventure where you take control of three Dwarven astronauts and lead them through the hordes of enemies in the depths of their Universe. Tactical Adventure Sci-Fi Space Dwarves

RoboCop: Rogue City - Players say: Patrol crime-ridden Old Detroit as RoboCop, combining heavy first-person firefights with investigations, police duties, and choices. Players like: Film-True Atmosphere · Heavy Auto-9 Combat · Old Detroit Details ·
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Become the legendary part man, part machine, all cop hero and deliver justice in Old Detroit.

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Nov 2, 2023
87% 👍
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Steelrising - Players say: In an automaton-ruled 1789 Paris, Aegis fights the king’s legions, develops her combat skills, and explores a path to stop him. Players like: Revolutionary Paris Setting · Accessible Soulslike Combat · Weapon And Build Variety ·
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Paris, 1789. The French Revolution has been suppressed with bloodshed by Louis XVI and his merciless mechanical army. Aegis, a mysterious automaton masterpiece, must confront the king's army alone to save history in this challenging action-RPG.

Feudal Alloy - Players say: Guide Attu, a fish-piloted farm robot, through an interconnected medieval world, fighting machines and unlocking new paths. Players like: Hand-Drawn Art · Fish-Robot Concept · Exploration And Secrets ·
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Feudal Alloy is an epic action adventure with fish-controlled medieval robots! Explore an unusual medieval world with a fish-controlled robot, Attu. Improve your combat techniques and skills by smashing many kinds of mechanical creatures in a beautiful hand-drawn world.

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Jan 17, 2019
71% 👍
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.hack//G.U. Last Recode - Players say: As Haseo hunts Tri-Edge inside a fictional MMO, explore keyword-unlocked dungeons, fight in real time, and follow a four-volume story. Players like: Story and Characters · Fake MMO World · Atmospheric Soundtrack ·
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.hack//G.U. is back! This collection includes all 3 original .hack//G.U. titles, Rebirth, Reminisce, and Redemption, all fully restored and remastered. As well as an all new 4th Volume: .hack//G.U. Reconnection.

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Nov 3, 2017
87% 👍
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Classified: France '44 - Players say: Lead Allied commandos and French resistance fighters through turn-based raids, using stealth and suppression to prepare for D-Day. Players like: WWII Resistance Setting · Morale-Based Combat · Stealth Ambushes ·
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Command an elite team of allied special operators in Nazi-occupied France wreaking havoc in the run up to D-Day in this ambitious turn-based tactics game. Take on the might of Germany's war machine and launch daring raids in occupied territory. Can you do enough to ensure Allied victory?

Achilles: Legends Untold - Players say: Revived after his death at Troy, Achilles fights through mythic Greece in an isometric RPG built around stamina-based combat. Players like: Greek Mythology · Satisfying Combat · Weapon Choices ·
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Rewrite fate with every strike. Face gods, mythic heroes, and legendary beasts in this souls-like Action RPG set in ancient Greece. Master brutal combat, unlock divine skills, and shape Achilles into the warrior only you can become.

Going Under - Players say: As an unpaid intern, Jackie fights through cursed startup dungeons with breakable office weapons, skills, and coworker perks. Players like: Startup Culture Satire · Colorful Corporate Art · Funny Character Writing ·
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Going Under is a satirical dungeon crawler about exploring the cursed ruins of failed tech startups. As an unpaid intern in the dystopian city of Neo-Cascadia, you’ll wield office junk as weaponry as you make your way through the offbeat procedural dungeons beneath your company campus.

Dreamscaper - Players say: By night, Cassidy battles emotion-shaped nightmares in shifting dream runs; by day, she builds Redhaven bonds and lasting upgrades. Players like: Weapon And Build Variety · Dreamlike Art And Music · Emotional Story Themes ·
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By night, delve deep into your subconscious and discover powerful artifacts to conquer your nightmares. By day, explore the city of Redhaven and build relationships to unlock the power of your dreams. DREAM. DIE. WAKE. REPEAT.

Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos - Players say: Explore Tasos, clear shifting puzzle dungeons, and upgrade your hero and village alone or with up to three friends. Players like: Classic Zelda Feel · Co-op With Friends · Exploration and Secrets ·
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Rogue Heroes is a topdown, roguelite adventure game inspired by the Zelda franchise. Play solo or team up with your friends to combat procedurally generated dungeons and take down the evil Titans that threaten to overwhelm the land of Tasos!

SCARLET NEXUS - Players say: As an OSF psionic, battle brain-hunting mutants with telekinetic attacks and squad powers across two interwoven story routes. Players like: Psychic Combat · Squad Power Combos · Anime Art Direction ·
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Choose between Yuito and Kasane, elite psionics each armed with a talent in psychokinesis and their own reason to fight. Complete both of their stories to unlock all the mysteries of a Brain Punk future caught between technology and psychic abilities.

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii - Players say: After amnesia strands ex-yakuza Goro Majima near Hawaii, he captains a pirate crew, fights on land and sea, and hunts treasure. Players like: Flashy Two-Style Combat · Absurd Pirate Comedy · Minigames and Sidequests ·
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Embark on an over-the-top, modern-day pirate adventure with an ex-yakuza, now pirate captain & his crew. Engage in exhilarating combat on land and sea in the hunt for lost memories and treasure.

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

RUBATO - Players say: As a frog in a shattered solar system, use a physics-driven tongue to explore open stages and collect what’s needed to repair it. Players like: Surprising Emotional Story · Absurd Internet Humor · Distinctive Visual Style ·
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RUBATO, an experimental, 2D physics-based take on the collect-a-thon genre!

Ultimate Drummer - Ultimate Drummer is an action-platformer where you play as a lone drummer on a sacred quest to restore harmony to a fractured world. Use a fully playable step-sequencer drum kit to reshape reality, awaken lost musicians, and bring music back to life.
Blood Rush - BLOOD RUSH is a fast paced, skill based FPS, mixed with roguelites elements. Upgrade yourself, buy unique guns, drain miracles from relics and destroy anyone or anything standing on your way!
Flatworld - Players say: As a weak hero drawn into a parallel world, explore dungeons, outwit foes with magic, and solve puzzles using character abilities. Players like: Dungeon Puzzles · Engaging Story · Character Humor ·
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Explore a world full of magic, puzzles and enemies in which the main character is the weakest of the game.

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Apr 28, 2022
97% 👍
of 902
The World is Your Weapon - Players say: Explore a quirky world, turn objects and creatures into weapons, and fight through turn-based dungeons as you build a weapon gallery. Players like: The creative weapon system, with many unexpected objects and creatures available to wield. · The humorous, lighthearted, and often absurd tone. · The variety of items and content to discover, including the weapon collection. ·
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Wells, pitfalls, houses, villagers, monsters (!?), anything around you can be a weapon! An action RPG that you've never seen before, you can fight with all the objects you see in the game. There are more than 300 kinds of weapons.Aim to complete the weapon gallery!

The Vale: Shadow of the Crown - CLOSE YOUR EYES. BECOME A WARRIOR: Feel your enemy’s rasping breath; a foot shifts on swampy ground; the crack of steel on wooden shield. The Vale is an audio based action adventure that sets out to breathe new life into medieval combat and fantasy narrative.
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Aug 19, 2021
97% 👍
of 384
TOMOMI - Full of hilarious dialogue and comical encounters! A super exhilarating Metroidvania action game!!
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Mar 25, 2022
97% 👍
of 277
Afterplace - Made by one person, an open world adventure game filled with silly characters and terrible secrets. Explore the woods, find hidden paths, hack and slash through strange monsters, and try very, very hard not to break reality. Or don't. You do you.
Paper Animal Adventure - Paper Animal Adventure is a cute roguelike game where you can explore a colorful world, fight scary enemies, and relax with your friends at the campfire! Will you be the one to seal the timelines and find the missing king?
Death of a Wish - THE NEO-SANCTUM SHALL FALL. Claim retribution against the theocratic Faiths as you master vicious hack-and-slash combat in this action-RPG where style is salvation.

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Juice Galaxy - Players say: Roam a surreal open world, fling yourself with floppy physics, fight strange creatures, and drink juice to grow stronger. Players like: Surreal Goofy Humor · Floppy Physics Combat · Distinctive Soundtrack ·
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Juice Galaxy is a happy place to fly around and smack things and drink juice. And explore things. And just, flip around doing stuff.

The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot - Players say: Rescue a princess in a first-person fantasy campaign using swords, spells, stealth, and physics-driven kicks to take on enemies. Players like: Creative Environmental Combat · Multiple Playstyles · Goofy Humor ·
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A first-person action game, inspired by Dark Messiah, that provides various ways for defeating your foes, with weaponry, sorcery, stealth, or clever tactics like kicking them into deadly spikes.

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May 15, 2026
98% 👍
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Hades II - Players say: As witch-princess Melinoë, fight through the Underworld and toward Olympus in repeat runs to confront the Titan of Time. Players like: Build Variety · Replayable Runs · Responsive Combat ·
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Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.

ATLYSS - Players say: Create an animal-like adventurer, then dash, parry, explore dungeons, complete quests, and build a class solo or online. Players like: Fast-Paced Combat · Fluid Movement · Character Customization ·
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Enter the world of ATLYSS, a Singleplayer/Online RPG where you can fight with or against friends in a surreal world filled with creatures beyond comprehension. Customize and progress your character(s), complete quests, and discover strange locations.

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Nov 22, 2024
97% 👍
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Crypt Custodian - Players say: As Pluto, a cat condemned to clean the afterlife, wield a broom, battle creatures, and explore a connected world for new abilities. Players like: Smooth Movement · Charming Art · Approachable Difficulty ·
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Crypt Custodian is a charming metroidvania about cleaning up the afterlife. Play as Pluto - a mischievous cat who has died, and is sentenced to be the afterworld's janitor... FOREVER! Hang out with other doomed ghosts, battle beasts, and explore a vastly expansive landscape.

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Aug 27, 2024
97% 👍
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Touhou Blooming Soul - Players say: Guide mask spirit Hata no Kokoro through randomized Gensokyo runs, switching emotion-based combat styles to fight yokai and bosses. Players like: Art And Music · Emotion Builds · Boss Stories ·
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Follow Hata no Kokoro as she explores and defeats enemies on the stage of Gensokyo. The game contains many randomized elements such as items, skills and maps. Players can utilize a variety of different playstyles, making each run uniquely different from the last.

Black Myth: Wukong - Players say: As the Destined One, battle mythic foes with staff techniques, spells, and transformations while uncovering the truth behind Sun Wukong. Players like: Satisfying Staff Combat · Memorable Boss Fights · Mythic Visual Design ·
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Black Myth: Wukong is an action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. You shall set out as the Destined One to venture into the challenges and marvels ahead, to uncover the obscured truth beneath the veil of a glorious legend from the past.

Nova Drift - Players say: Pilot an inertia-driven spacefighter through enemy waves, choosing weapons and upgrades that reshape each arcade roguelite run. Players like: Build Combinations · Replayable Runs · Arcade Combat ·
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Nova Drift distills the mechanical depth and strategy of an ARPG into classic arcade space combat. Control an endlessly evolving bio-mechanical ship, face legions of strange and deadly foes, and ride the wake of a dying star across the void.

FlyKnight - Players say: As a wingless fly squire, explore first-person dungeons, target enemy limbs, and fight a witch alone or with friends. Players like: Enjoyable Co-op · Retro Bug World · Limb-Targeting Combat ·
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Explore, fight, loot and fish! Solo or in co-op mode in this Old School First Person Dungeon Crawler. Earn your knighthood as you oppose the evil witch Lunamoth and stop her curse which prevents everyone from growing wings.

Soulstone Survivors: Prologue - Players say: Fight through enemy hordes as a Void Hunter, learn skills, craft weapons from gathered materials, and challenge powerful bosses. Players like: Highly Addictive ·
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Face the Lords of the Void and their endless minions, collect their Soulstones and become a god! In this Action Roguelite, unveil secret spells, craft mighty weapons, unlock multiple characters, discover game-breaking synergies and conquer the power of the void.

Duck Simulator 2 - Players say: A rogue rubber duck wrecks a developer’s clicker, sending you through shifting mini-games as they try to rebuild it. Players like: Genre-Hopping Variety · Absurd Humor · Gaming References ·
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A genre-defying phenomenon that will take you on a journey to stop a rubber duck from taking over the developer's game!

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Nov 22, 2021
96% 👍
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Bastion - Players say: After a world-shattering Calamity, the Kid explores forming paths, fights with customizable weapons, and rebuilds a refuge. Players like: Hand-Painted Art · Memorable Soundtrack · Reactive Narration ·
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Discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces.