Role-playing game
Game genre theme
Informal group for finding RPG sub-genres.
33
games
16platforms
Related group
Video game
RPG elements
Games by year
The first Role-playing game video game was released on February 11, 1990.
On-Line, Flair Software and Happy Goat Studio published most of these games.
Most common companies
This is a container group; its children are:
| Action-RPG | RPG sub-genre characterized with heavy focus on fast-paced (real-time) combat and is overall very similar to Action-Adventure genre. | 1980 / 2021 | 501 games |
| Dungeon Crawler | A scenario where the player navigates labyrinthine "dungeons" in search of treasure and evil to vanquish. Used frequently in older RPGs, especially early video game RPGs, and is often treated as a sub-genre of them as such. | 1974 / 2022 | 541 games |
| MUD | Text-based role-playing, simulation and/or action games that can usually be played with any telnet compatible client. | 1987 / 2016 | 32 games |
| Eastern RPG | Any tags commonly perceived as defining or common traits of eastern-style RPGs. (too short) | container group | |
| Western RPG | Any tags commonly perceived as defining or common traits of western-style RPGs. (too short) | container group | |
| Strategy-RPG | Hybrid genre unrelated to tactical-RPGs. (too short) | 1980 / 2018 | 21 games |
| Tactical RPG | A sub-genre of RPGs focusing on tactical or stategic combat while having practically no personal achievements, adventuring, or such as you would in more traditional RPGs. | 1988 / 2023 | 480 games |