The Class-Based Zone

Games where distinct character classes define roles, abilities, and team composition.

Latest Standouts

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

Piworld - Piworld is a unique multiplayer game where everyone can find something to do to suit their desires. Try out different roles: from a simple fisherman to an adventurer. Explore the world alone or with friends, fight evil, develop your skills, and create your own story.
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Oct 4, 2026
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Beetleball - Score goals with dungballs in Beetleball, the Greatest Online Multiplayer Class-based Dung Beetle Soccer Game TO EVER EXIST
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Sep 3, 2026
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ZENONIA 1 - Players say: Choose a Warrior, Paladin, or Assassin, then fight, quest, and build your hero in a 2D fantasy RPG shaped by good-or-evil choices. Players like: Nostalgic Return · Character Progression · Classic RPG Feel ·
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Remember the RPG that defined a generation? ZENONIA is back—faithfully restored and now on Steam. Relive the adventure that kept you playing for hours, or experience it for the first time.

The Adventurers - The Adventurers is a turn-based tactical RPG where every decision shapes your legacy. Lead your party of heroes in an open world filled with random events that affect your story. Survive a high fantasy landscape where your epic saga is waiting to be written.
Din's Champion - The evil goddess seeks to devour and remake the world… and you are what stands in her way. Fight and kill, expand your skill tree, craft and build, and lead the world’s people to victory in Din’s Champion, a multiplayer fantasy action-RPG where every choice matters, and the choices are endless.
Flowers and Deities - Flowers and Deities is a strategy deckbuilder roguelite where you command a blood-soaked lizardkin army through escalating arena battles, spending every drop of spilled blood to cast spells, summon creatures, and survive long enough to claim the favor of the Gods
UNHUMAN - UNHUMAN is a 2D idle extraction shooter set in a cyberpunk dystopia. Raid hostile zones, loot valuable gear, fight enemies before extraction, and craft powerful weapons. Progress through a deep skill tree, install augments, and transcend humanity. Start as a scavenger. Become UNHUMAN.
HellSlave II: Judgment of the Archon - The Heavens are done waiting. In this dark fantasy dungeon crawler RPG, the Archon descends to end the demon war once and for all. Make your stand in HellSlave II, more immersive, brutal, and customizable than ever. The reckoning begins now.

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Isonzo - Players say: Fight as a soldier on the Italian Front, capturing or defending Alpine objectives with class-based weapons and team tactics. Players like: WWI Atmosphere · Satisfying Rifle Combat · Detailed Alpine Maps ·
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Ferocious Alpine warfare will test your tactical skills in this authentic WW1 FPS. Battle among the scenic peaks, rugged valleys and idyllic towns of northern Italy. The Great War on the Italian Front is brought to life and elevated to unexpected heights!

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew - Players say: Lead an undead pirate crew through real-time stealth missions, combining supernatural skills to outmaneuver the Inquisition. Players like: Creative Crew Abilities · Tactical Stealth Planning · Flexible Team Combinations ·
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Assemble your crew and set sail on an infamous ghost ship to sneak, stab, and spellcast your way through the Inquisition in this non-linear stealth strategy game. Chart a course, develop uncanny abilities, and use unconventional tactics to find a powerful pirate artifact!

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide - Players say: As an Inquisition Reject in Tertium, join a strike team to fight Chaos hordes with guns, blades, and class skills. Players like: Satisfying Combat · Class Build Variety · Grim Hive Atmosphere ·
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Take back the city of Tertium from hordes of bloodthirsty foes in this intense and brutal action shooter. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the new co-op focused experience from the award-winning team behind the Vermintide series. As Tertium falls, Rejects Will Rise.

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Nov 30, 2022
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Heroes of Hammerwatch II - Players say: Choose a hero, fight through changing Dark Citadel dungeons, and bring gear and resources back to grow your town and power up. Players like: Class Variety · Town Progression · Co-op Play ·
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A rogue-lite action-rpg that offers extensive persistent progression. Build your town, upgrade and equip your heroes, before taking on the ever-changing Dark Citadel - either solo or with a team of friends.

SKALD: Against the Black Priory - Players say: Lead a band of heroes across a horror-haunted island, exploring for clues and surviving tactical, turn-based battles. Players like: Eerie Atmosphere · Distinctive Pixel Art · Cosmic Horror Story ·
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SKALD:Against the Black Priory is a retro-style party-based RPG set in a grim-dark fantasy world of tragic heroes, violent deaths and Lovecraftian horror. Take a chance and roll the dice as you embark on a compelling story filled with deadly creatures, branching story and tactical, turn-based combat

Risk of Rain Returns - Players say: Choose a survivor and fight across 2D alien stages, collecting items to outlast escalating hordes alone or in co-op. Players like: Polished Remake · Item Combinations · Pixel-Art Visuals ·
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Carefully designed, beautifully remastered, and loaded with new ways to play—Risk of Rain is back and better than ever! Dive into the iconic roguelike full of unique loot combinations, enhanced with new Survivors, overhauled multiplayer, fan favorite content from Risk of Rain 2, and more!

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Nov 8, 2023
90% 👍
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Marathon - Players say: Scavenge a lost colony on Tau Ceti IV, battle rival players and hostile forces, then escape with loot alone or with a crew. Players like: Responsive Gunplay · Distinctive Art Direction · Tense Extraction Runs ·
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Explore the lost colony of Tau Ceti IV, scavenging valuable loot in a high-stakes survival first person shooter from the creators of Halo and Destiny.

Gallipoli - Players say: Fight as a British or Ottoman soldier in 25v25 WWI battles, capturing objectives through class-based teamwork and deliberate rifle combat. Players like: WWI Atmosphere · Deliberate Combat · Turkish Voice Acting ·
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Land on the beaches of Gallipoli and fight intense 50-player objective-based battles on the Ottoman Fronts! Experience WW1 trench warfare and desert expeditions as one of 10 historic classes, armed with authentic weaponry. Gallipoli brings the most immersive WW1 FPS battles yet.

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Aug 20, 2026
78% 👍
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Hidden Gems

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

Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands - Players say: A dysfunctional three-piece band enters a lethal music contest, using customizable turn-based battles to fight its way out. Players like: Distinctive Turn-Based Combat · Funny Writing · Memorable Characters ·
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The party-based RPG where you kick down doors and fight with music as a 3-piece band of idiots.

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Aug 8, 2023
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Fantasy Maiden Wars - DREAM OF THE STRAY DREAMER - - Players say: Lead Reimu or Marisa through Gensokyo’s incidents in a grid-based tactics RPG where danmaku shapes each battle. Players like: Interwoven Touhou Story · Tactical Boss Battles · Distinctive Character Builds ·
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Command a legion of more than 70 beloved Touhou Project heroines on an expansive quest to uncover the cause of mysterious incidents blossoming throughout Gensokyo. Deploy units on grid-based maps to battle monsters with flashy Spell Cards, and conquer each stage with strategic mastery.

Voidspire Tactics - An indie turn-based Tactics RPG with a heavy emphasis on exploration, character progression, and highly tactical combat. Create your own deeply customizable party of Warriors, Sorcerers, and Shiftcloaks to take on the Spire!
Cube Chaos - Players say: Place ability-driven cubes, build interacting armies and defenses, and adapt your strategy against an opposing force each run. Players like: Unexpected Cube Synergies · Creative Run Builds · High Replay Variety ·
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Cube Chaos is a complex strategy roguelike about placing units to create giant armies, factories, combos, or self replicating murder crabs, overwhelming and outsmarting your opponents. Build and adapt new strategies each run using a ludicrous variety of units, perks and more.

Potato Flowers in Full Bloom - Players say: Lead a three-person expedition through a first-person labyrinth, countering previewed enemy moves while seeking seeds for tainted soil. Players like: Tactical Enemy Reads · Flexible Class Builds · Cozy Worldbuilding ·
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Explore an underground labyrinth in search of mythical seeds in this 3D dungeon crawler RPG! Leaving things to chance will prove fatal🌱Explore underground labyrinths, expanding your range of actions as you go🌿Light up the path, defeat those in front of you, grow stronger, and unravel the mysteries

Trolddom - An old-school 2D fantasy open world MMORPG featuring character progression, classes, monsters, quests, guilds, dungeons, epic loot, achievements, procedural world generation, player-versus-player combat, and much more.
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Nov 5, 2025
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Wyvia - Wyvia is an open world 3D action RPG inspired by classic JRPGs. Save your world from a monstrous invasion. Choose from 10 classes customizing them with a robust cross-class skill system, craft and upgrade tons of weapons, explore dungeons battling a variety of enemies, and defeat terrifying bosses!
Angvik 2 - Angvik 2 is an action roguelike platformer with a unique style. Explore a variety of character builds as you navigate randomized levels, offering new challenges and surprises with each adventure.
Path of the Abyss - Players say: Lead a custom party through ink-drawn dungeons, building characters and arranging a shared skill grid for pauseable real-time fights. Players like: Tactical Skill Grid · Flexible Character Builds · Monochrome Art Style ·
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Dive deep into the Abyss.

White Lavender - A challenging adventure game with RPG-elements. Be a bug, fight other critters with swords and magic, collect powerful items such as pencils and teaspoons, meet cool characters, and up your fashion game on a journey to brew a special tea!
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Jun 20, 2022
93% 👍
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Top Rated

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

Deep Rock Galactic - Players say: Lead a team of space dwarves through shifting alien caves, mining resources, fighting bug swarms, and escaping together. Players like: Co-op Teamwork · Procedural Cave Runs · Class And Weapon Builds ·
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Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!

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May 13, 2020
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Rabbit and Steel - Players say: Choose a rabbit class and face raid-style bosses solo or with up to three friends, adapting to attack patterns and random loot. Players like: Raid-Style Bosses · Co-op Coordination · Build Variety ·
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RABBIT & STEEL is a co-op action roguelike that recreates the essence of high-level MMO raiding in a randomized, simplified, bunny-sized package. Choose your class, gather your rabbit-eared companions and battle your way to the Moonlit Pinnacle!

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May 9, 2024
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Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop - Players say: Lead marines through alien-infested facilities, combining top-down shooting, class tactics and mission objectives. Players like: Co-op With Friends · Team Class Roles · Workshop Content ·
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Co-operative top-down shooter game available for free. An epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics.

FINAL FANTASY - Players say: Lead four chosen heroes across a fantasy world, exploring dungeons and fighting turn-based battles to restore the elemental crystals. Players like: Helpful Quality-of-Life Options · Memorable Music · Retro Visuals ·
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The original FINAL FANTASY comes to life with completely new graphics and audio! A remodeled 2D take on the first game in the world-renowned FINAL FANTASY series! Enjoy the timeless story told through charming retro graphics.

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Jul 28, 2021
95% 👍
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Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven - Players say: Lead Varennes through successive emperors, exploring a changing world and using tactical turn-based battles to defeat the Seven Heroes. Players like: Strategic Turn-Based Combat · Flexible Quest Routes · Generational Skill Inheritance ·
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In this non-linear RPG, rule and expand the Empire of Varennes across multiple generations. Discover a vast array of story experiences as you fight the Seven Heroes in an epic battle that plays out over thousands of years.

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Oct 24, 2024
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Perfect Heist 2 - Players say: In round-based bank heists, robbers blend in with civilians to steal and escape while cops search for and stop them. Players like: Playing With Friends · Distinctive Classes · Funny Heist Chaos ·
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Perfect Heist 2 is a round-based online game, where robbers try to hide in plain sight while robbing a bank without being noticed by the cop team!

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Dec 10, 2021
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FINAL FANTASY III - Players say: Four crystal-chosen adventurers cross a changing world, swapping combat jobs to restore balance between light and darkness. Players like: Flexible Job System · Memorable Soundtrack · World Exploration ·
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The original FINAL FANTASY III comes to life with completely new graphics and audio! A remodeled 2D take on the third game in the world-renowned FINAL FANTASY series! Enjoy the timeless story told through charming retro graphics.

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Jul 28, 2021
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Day of Defeat: Source - Players say: Join WWII online infantry battles as a fixed-weapon class, fighting with a team to seize and defend map control points. Players like: Old-School Simplicity · Team-Based Objectives · Class-Based Roles ·
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Valve's WWII Multiplayer Classic - Now available for Mac.

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Jul 12, 2010
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Apewar - Players say: Play as an armed ape in online FPS/TPS matches, fighting for kills or hauling bananas while coordinating with teammates and bots. Players like: Goofy Ape Shooter · Chaotic Matches · Playing With Friends ·
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Apewar is an online tactical and action FPS/TPS monkey war game adapted from real life. Build your monkey team and fight against your enemies. By playing in a coordinated way, you can have fun and win with a good strategy. Monkeys are strong together!

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Mar 24, 2023
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FINAL FANTASY VI - Players say: In a world where magic vanished and people rely on machines, guide a gifted woman and her party through a turn-based RPG. Players like: Emotional Ensemble Story · Soundtrack and Opera · Distinct Character Skills ·
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The original FINAL FANTASY VI comes to life with completely new graphics and audio! A remodeled 2D take on the sixth game in the world-renowned FINAL FANTASY series! Enjoy the timeless story told through charming retro graphics.

Crystal Project - Players say: Explore a voxel world, find crystals and traversal mounts, and build a four-person class team for turn-based tactical battles. Players like: Open-World Exploration · Hidden Areas · Flexible Class Builds ·
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Crystal Project is a non-linear JRPG where you are the maker of your own adventure. Explore the world while you find Crystals, unlock classes, learn abilities, and create a strategy capable of taking down the world's toughest bosses. Or just stick to exploring; it's up to you.