Best Role-Playing Game of 2025: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
Role-playing games, big and small, can captivate for dozens of hours and remain unforgettable. This past year saw not only big-budget but also small, heartfelt projects shine. It’s especially pleasing that our fresh top RPG list features exclusively European games.
Authors of "Igromania," summarizing 2025, selected the most liked role-playing games!
Third Place — Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon secured third place in "Igromania's" best RPGs list and also made it to the top low-budget games of 2025. Polish game development has long transformed from a meme to a sign of something at least decent and quite successful. Although this dark RPG based on King Arthur legends might not appeal to everyone, it's definitely worth a chance.
- Review: Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon — When Skyrim Meets Dark Souls
Second Place — Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Second place needs no further explanations. The silver in this category goes to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a jRPG in a world inspired by France's Belle Époque. Despite telling a linear story, it offers enormous gameplay variability — in the best traditions of Japanese role-playing games. Congratulations to Sandfall studio for making the top again — though not a win, as was the case for visual style and musical score.
- Review: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — Beautiful and Brutal
First Place — Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
The gold in this category goes to our good, noble, wicked, and vengeful Indro! A ladies' man, bare-knuckle fighter, notable drinker, rider, gambler, and whatever the owners of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 want him to be. In gamers' hands is not only the developing personality of the hero but also how his story will unfold. Will it be bloody or peaceful, unexpected or predictable, conscious or insane… Congratulations to Warhorse studio for such a quality and impressive RPG! We eagerly await the team's next announcements.
- Review: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Inglourious Basterds in Bohemia
- What do you think is the best RPG of 2025? Do you agree with "Igromania's" choice? Write in the comments!
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