- #1 Mathoria: It All Adds Up
97% matchMixed61% of 100 reviews2016
Dev: Senshi.Labs
Windows
A free educational math RPG that caters to children. Helps in practicing basic addition skills through drills while adventuring in the land of Mathoria. Also aims to target educators and gamer parents alike, so that Mathoria can become a bonding tool between them and the children they care for.
Why similar: RPGMaker 39% ★, RPG 32.4%, Casual 15.3%, Indie 13.3%
- #2 Project "Fire"
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 112 reviews2016
Dev: Distant AlliancePub: ElvenNeko
Windows
Welcome to "Project Fire" - free adventure\role-playing game! This game is for the people who love good stories, fantasy, sci-fi, steampunk universes, and tactical combat in jrpg style. And yes, it's free for everyone, and let no one be left behind!
Why similar: RPGMaker 53.1% ★, RPG 24.9%, Adventure 13.7%, Indie 8.3%
- #3 The Sun Will Rise
96% matchMixed56% of 75 reviews2016
Dev: The Sun Will Rise Team
Windows · Mac
The Sun Will Rise is a completely free Final Fantasy-style game about depression. Made by an international development team of gamers and mental health professionals, it is designed above all else to be a rewarding playing experience with a positive message behind it.
Why similar: RPGMaker 39.9% ★, RPG 25.7%, Adventure 13.7%, Action 11%, Indie 9.7%
- #4 Jesus Christ RPG Trilogy
94% matchVery Positive86% of 1,600 reviews2016
Dev: Wholetone Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 40%
A Role-Playing Game where you can play as Jesus Christ and the Apostles in turn-based battles
Why similar: JRPG 35.3%, RPG 32.5%, Funny 17.1%, Fantasy 15.1%
- #5 Athenian Rhapsody: Thunder Goober's Personality Dungeon
93% matchVery Positive90% of 166 reviews2023
Dev: Nico PapaliaPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Windows
Athenian Rhapsody: Thunder Goober's Personality Dungeon is a FREE dangerously goofy RPG with fast paced, unique combat and zany secrets and adventures. Your goal is to build your own rhapsody, the story of you - the player - an experience which cannot be replicated by others.
Why similar: RPG 25.9%, JRPG 25.7%, Action RPG 19.2%, Adventure 14.2%, Funny 7.7%
- #6 White Pearl
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 77 reviews2017
Dev: Tristanthewolf
Windows
White Pearl is a classic-like 2D RPG journey told over a large main cast with several villains. Replete with content, in-depth combat, unique equipment system, as well as a deep story to uncover. With their destinies already written, will calamity be prevented a fifth time?
Why similar: RPGMaker 45% ★, RPG 21.7%, Adventure 11.5%, Action 9.1%, Indie 8.4%
- #7 Kraken Academy!!
92% matchVery Positive91% of 1,053 reviews2021
Dev: Happy Broccoli GamesPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Make friends, free spirits and make sure that the world doesn’t end! Welcome to Kraken Academy, a technicolor fever dream that for legal reasons can only be described as "technically a school." Join forces with a magical kraken to save the world!
Why similar: RPG 29.1%, Funny 24.1%, Adventure 20%, Casual 13.7%, Indie 13.1%
- #8 Arisen Force: Life Devotee - Initial Ver.
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,639 reviews2024
Dev: Lemport
Windows
Enjoy a stylish action combat experience as you explore a chapter storylines from Journey to the West.
Why similar: JRPG 21.7%, RPG 19.4%, Action RPG 18.1%, Action 12.1%, Fantasy 9%
- #9 Tay Son Dynasty
91% matchMixed65% of 96 reviews2023
Dev: SH Studio
Windows
This is a fantasy, humorous game set in the Tay Son Dynasty.
Why similar: RPG 47%, Action 25%, Action RPG 22.3%, Indie 5.7%
- #10 Team Four Star RPG
90% matchVery Positive82% of 94 reviews2017
Dev: Shadow Blade Productions
Windows
Join Lanipator, Master Wugglez, and LordMoonStone. Also known as Nick, Grant and Kirran, as they venture through worlds based on games they once played.
Why similar: RPGMaker 57.1% ★, RPG 31.5%, Indie 11.4%
- #11 Felt Mansion
87% matchVery Positive96% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: HaeldralPub: HS.NET
Windows
Felt Mansion is an Adventure/Action RPG fan-game set in the world of Andrew Hussie's Homestuck. Save the young Handmaid from the clutches of the fearsome Doc Scratch!
Why similar: RPG 28.5%, RPGMaker 19.4% ★, JRPG 19.2%, Action RPG 14.1%, Funny 5.6%
- #12 Towards The Pantheon
89% matchVery Positive88% of 68 reviews2018
Dev: Connor O.R.T. Linning
Windows
Join Freyja, Bam, Mishima, and Phenez on their journey Towards The Pantheon! Gone are the RPG cliches of potions and elemental powers; in Towards The Pantheon you dive head first into a simultaneously lighthearted, fun, dark, and painful adventure in this fresh and exciting world!
Why similar: RPG 41.5%, Adventure 23.4%, Casual 19.5%, Indie 15.6%
- #13 MADO MONOGATARI: Fia and the Wondrous Academy
86% matchVery Positive86% of 63 reviews2026
Dev: Idea FactoryPub: Idea Factory International
Windows
Enroll in the Ancient Magic Academy and become a Great Mage in this charming dungeon-crawling RPG!
Why similar: RPG 35.3%, JRPG 33.8%, Action 15.8%, Fantasy 8.1%, Funny 7%
- #14 Undefeated
89% matchVery Positive81% of 182 reviews2015
Dev: Aldorlea Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
16-bit RPG magic is back! Can you stop the Wastelands from spreading and overtaking the world? Play as Marcus, Bastien and Fela, 3 army conscripts with little liking for their new life, yet who find themselves engulfed in a mystery that could very well cause the demise of their nation.
Why similar: RPGMaker 43.5% ★, RPG 19.1%, JRPG 14%, Indie 6.8%, Casual 6.6%
- #15 Kinda Heroes: The cutest RPG ever!
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 110 reviews2020
Dev: Hippo Games
Windows
Side-View & Scroll RPG made with love!
Why similar: RPG 53.4%, Adventure 27%, Indie 19.5%
- #16 Acan's Call: Act 1
86% matchVery Positive83% of 372 reviews2016
Dev: Cyberith GmbH
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Sword and Shield in hand, fight your way along this sword-fighting experience, exclusively for VR.
Why similar: RPG 49.5%, Adventure 27.3%, Action 23.2%
- #17 ぶんまわしヒーロー / Full Swing Hero
84% matchVery Positive86% of 73 reviews2019
Dev: カミエナ / KamiEna
Windows
It's a break, a break! ?After attacking, resting your body will cause a super recovery and your muscles will followMuscle training action RPG
Why similar: RPG 40.1%, Action 22.6%, JRPG 16%, Indie 15.1%, Fantasy 6.2%
- #18 OverField
80% matchVery Positive81% of 834 reviews2025
Dev: INUTAN Limited
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 23.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Tiny Miniature World Cozy Light Social Grand Open Adventure Hello! Let's explore the OverField together!
Why similar: JRPG 25.9%, RPG 22.8%, Action RPG 17.1%, Adventure 12.2%, Action 11.1%
- #19 Angels & Demigods - SciFi VR Visual Novel
85% matchMixed63% of 112 reviews2016
Dev: 7 Keys Studios
Windows · Mac
VR capable sci-fi visual novel which takes place in the distant future on Enceladus.
Why similar: RPG 55.6%, Adventure 27.3%, Indie 17%
- #20 Dungeon Full Dive: Player Edition
82% matchMixed48% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: TxK Gaming Studios
Windows
Embark on your TTRPG adventures for free with DFD: Player Edition, where your fantasies come to life. Create up to three heroes, design your own maps, and dive into a world of adventure. The Player Edition is your gateway to an ever-expanding universe of TTRPGs.
Why similar: RPG 54.1%, Adventure 29.3%, Fantasy 16.6%
- #21 Nyanco Project
83% matchVery Positive82% of 144 reviews2019
Dev: Nyanco Channel
Windows
Nyanco Meets Anime Girls! @(=´▽`=)/
Why similar: RPGMaker 30.2% ★, RPG 29.4%, Adventure 15.1%, Action 13.9%, Indie 11.4%
- #22 Heroes Must Die
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 61 reviews2016
Dev: Heroic Games
Windows · Mac
Heroes Must Die is an action-RPG with aesthetics inspired by the best roleplaying games of the 16 bit era, with the sophisticated story and design of modern epics. Follow a grand and fun story of trying to break the world and then save it. Combat is easy to learn and difficult to master. Best of all, it's free.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #23 Notes From Province
81% matchVery Positive87% of 89 reviews2022
Dev: BoxFox Studios
Windows
Dive into a deep Open World that rewards exploration. Solve clever puzzles with lateral thinking, and engage in unique, story-driven boss battles. Then take a break. Furnish your home, fish a little, and chill with your eccentric neighbors.
Why similar: RPG 29.5%, JRPG 24.2%, Adventure 14.9%, Fantasy 11.1%, Casual 10.6%
- #24 Magic Wand
81% matchVery Positive96% of 80 reviews2017
Dev: thecatamitesPub: harmony corp
Windows · Mac · Linux
Machine to process your sensations into trains and fields the monster people moving 'cross are getting lost and found again. An exciting capsule toy JRPG for you.
Why similar: RPG 50.6%, Adventure 29.5%, Indie 20%
- #25 Eclipse --- Defending the motherland
82% matchMixed56% of 55 reviews2016
Dev: Hangzhou NezhaGames
Windows
This is a FREE FPS Sci-Fi game. Currently 3 levels for playing, each level has different monsters. In the further each level will has a boss-like monster, it will focus on the boss battle. Hope you enjoy it!
Why similar: Adventure 66.7%, Fantasy 33.3%
- #26 EXCALIBURIAN!!
78% matchVery Positive93% of 274 reviews2021
Dev: Majd Rouhana
Windows
Gather companions, explore the world, ascend the throne!
Why similar: JRPG 42.9%, RPG 39%, Fantasy 13.3%, Adventure 2.7%, Indie 2%
- #27 I Wanna Be A Game Dev!
76% matchVery Positive95% of 231 reviews2024
Dev: Lyko Studio
Windows · Mac
Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?
Why similar: RPG 58.1%, Funny 29.8%, Casual 12.1%
- #28 索罗灵魂之戒
77% matchVery Positive85% of 184 reviews2022
Dev: 斜王真眼
Windows
十分解压的游戏。拥有各种附身,变身,皮物等福利和梦幻技能。让你享受到不一样的快乐RPG。 许多网络热梗。让你快乐的同时紧跟时事。
Why similar: RPGMaker 51.2% ★, RPG 14.5%, Adventure 8.3%, JRPG 7.9%, Indie 6.3%
- #29 Magnesia
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 72 reviews2019
Dev: Toruko Games
Windows · Mac
Protect the world from Mr. CL-34N! You're designated to use magnets in order to progress, but nothing can stop you!
Why similar: RPG 39.3%, Adventure 23.1%, Casual 20.5%, Indie 17.1%
- #30 Six Braves 🕌
75% matchMixed67% of 848 reviews2022
Dev: Zeros
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Strategy RPG game , full of childhood memories!
Why similar: RPG 45.8%, JRPG 29.1%, Fantasy 7%, Adventure 6.8%, Casual 6%
- #31 Vickinachi
79% matchVery Negative16% of 212 reviews2017
Dev: Hariharan S
Windows
Median: 0 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 15%
Experience the fun with vickinachi
Why similar: RPGMaker 43.5% ★, RPG 26.9%, Adventure 13.9%, Action 11.8%, Indie 3.9%
- #32 Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story
77% matchMixed59% of 361 reviews2018
Dev: AgatePub: PQube
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Build a school for RPG heroes in a mix of simulation and role-play adventure. As Principal of a school for the warriors and mages of the future, you must build your Academy to train the best in the land. Place and upgrade facilities, form teams of the best students and send them out on epic quests!
Why similar: JRPG 30.2%, RPG 25.5%, Adventure 11.6%, Fantasy 11.4%, Action 11.3%
- #33 RPG Time: The Legend of Wright
73% matchVery Positive88% of 465 reviews2022
Dev: 株式会社デスクワークスPub: Aniplex Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 59%
It's time for an adventure! Once classes are over, RPG Time begins! Game master Kenta's notebook holds a handwritten RPG made just for you.
Why similar: JRPG 41.3%, RPG 33.7%, Action 14.2%, Adventure 10.7%
- #34 免费游戏 THE GAME FOR FREE
71% matchVery Positive89% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Sandwer Game 沙塔游戏
Windows
This game is [FREE] of charge.
Why similar: RPG 44.9%, Action RPG 28.8%, Casual 18.5%, Indie 7.7%
- #35 Dreamscape
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 68 reviews2015
Dev: Aldorlea GamesPub: KOMODO
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Addictive RPG with bits of strategy to enhance the gameplay, Dreamscape can be played in 4 different modes and features different rewards for completing them. You even get bonus heroes if you complete a mode without using the healing goddess!
Why similar: RPGMaker 42.8% ★, RPG 19.2%, Adventure 8.8%, JRPG 8.6%, Casual 7.3%
- #36 Wing of Misadventure Retro
74% matchMixed58% of 408 reviews2020
Dev: Allyson de Souza BaconPub: 4Tabern
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Wing of Misadventure is the definitive Massive Multiplayer Online RPG experience, featuring a unique art style, carefully crafted loot system and fast paced combat style, making it the perfect match for hardcore and casual gamers alike!
Why similar: RPG 32.6%, Adventure 15.5%, JRPG 14.9%, Action 14.9%, Indie 11.1%
- #37 The RPG
68% matchVery Positive87% of 787 reviews2025
Dev: Dionysus AcroreitesPub: Catoptric Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Minimalistic Skyrim + West of Loathing + Supraland. An RPG-lite adventure with intentionally twisted traditional role-playing games aspects, where your choices do matter.
Why similar: RPG 46.6%, Adventure 22%, Action 8.9%, Funny 8.9%, Casual 8.3%
- #38 Trickster VR: Horde Attack!
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 68 reviews2019
Dev: Trickster Games
Windows
Your daily fix of the hack&slash wave attack action. Fast paced and easy to get into. Use a varied arsenal of awesome magic weapons to win that top spot on the Orc Slayer Leaderboard. Plus, it's 100% free!
Why similar: Action 37%, Adventure 36.8%, Indie 26.1%
- #39 Troublemaker
69% matchVery Positive87% of 1,133 reviews2023
Dev: Gamecom TeamPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Grab a backpack, boxing tape, and focus on what high school is all about: Beating the ever loving crap out of one another! Troublemaker blends favorite action-adventure-beat-'em-up elements from the strongest traditions in the genre.
Why similar: JRPG 31.1%, Action RPG 23.7%, Adventure 21.3%, Funny 13.2%, Action 10.8%
- #40 RETNE
73% matchVery Positive80% of 50 reviews2017
Dev: VRNI Ltd
Windows
In RETNE you are a tourist travelling through VR Land. There's lots to see and so many things to do, but there’s a catch; it’s A DIY tour, so you have to do the hard work to visit all the magical attractions that the VR world has to offer.
Why similar: RPG 47.8%, Adventure 29.1%, Casual 23.2%
- #41 Legionwood 1: Tale of the Two Swords
72% matchVery Positive85% of 189 reviews2016
Dev: Dark Gaia Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
An epic free-to-play RPG that captures the spirit of the classics of the SNES era.
Why similar: RPGMaker 49.2% ★, RPG 36.6%, Casual 14.3%
- #42 Book of Fei
65% matchVery Positive95% of 325 reviews2026
Dev: TAO Studio
Windows · Mac
Lead adorable warriors to form an adventure team to work and adventure on the computer desktop. Defeat the warriors to save the world. Rich nurturing and collection elements, idle and slack off to earn money and fight monsters!
Why similar: RPG 28.3%, Action RPG 23%, JRPG 16.6%, Casual 10.1%, Indie 9%
- #43 Dodgeball Academia
68% matchVery Positive94% of 677 reviews2021
Dev: Pocket TrapPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Dodgeball Academia is a sports RPG game featuring rookie dodgeball student, Otto. Join Otto and an eclectic cast of characters as they train to dominate on and off the courts of the academia.
Why similar: RPG 48.2%, Adventure 24.9%, Action 23.9%, Indie 3.1%
- #44 Tales of Spark: Probation
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 60 reviews2023
Dev: Ice and Fire Isle Studio
Windows
Dear players, become a young swordsmaster and enter "Tales of Spark: Probation"! This is a world filled with real-time combat, abundant treasures, a rich storyline, and diverse character builds. Of course, the challenges are also immense, so best of luck to you!
Why similar: RPG 32.2%, Action RPG 22.6%, Adventure 17.8%, Action 16%, Fantasy 8.9%
- #45 Maru Expedition: We can fly
66% matchVery Positive94% of 199 reviews2025
Dev: MoldGamesPub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
Catch falling allies and dominate the battlefield! Control your flying platform to catch characters and auto-attack enemies. Build your team, link skills, and shape your own strategy in this evolving arcade action game.
Why similar: Action 37.7%, Casual 33.1%, Funny 14.5%, Indie 8.5%, Fantasy 6.2%
- #46 Soma Union
70% matchVery Positive91% of 67 reviews2021
Dev: Torch60
Windows
Having fallen to a great calamity a second time, it's up to Zero and their friends to put Soma back together! What is on your horizon is for you to decide...
Why similar: JRPG 45.5%, RPG 42.3%, Fantasy 10.1%, Indie 2.1%
- #47 AKER FERN - Visual Novel
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 126 reviews2020
Dev: Chaos Group Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Polish Visual Novel game with Polish Voice Acting for 6-8 hours of fun.
Why similar: RPG 46.2%, Adventure 29.2%, Casual 12.5%, Indie 12.2%
- #48 Origin Of Destiny: Crimson Awakening
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 138 reviews2016
Dev: CloudTheWolf Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Sophie and Mike have been separated by an evil group and must now try and rejoin forces before taking on a great evil. But something more sinister is happening and may change the world forever!
Why similar: RPGMaker 60.2% ★, RPG 23.2%, Adventure 10.4%, Indie 6.3%
- #49 Armadusa
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 61 reviews2019
Dev: WVV Games
Windows
100% free retro indie game with dungeons, treasures and online co-op!
Why similar: RPG 39.2%, Action 21.7%, Indie 19.6%, Casual 19.5%
- #50 Clown2Beat
71% matchMixed66% of 55 reviews2016
Dev: Rodrigo Banzato
Windows
You are selected to be part of a circus, open the doors and beat the Clowns, solving the challenges before the clock ends.
Why similar: Action 24.7%, Casual 23.2%, Adventure 20.6%, Indie 17.8%, Funny 13.8%
- #51 Sonata Theory
67% matchVery Positive93% of 74 reviews2021
Dev: Mayj Studios
Windows
2D/3D story-adventure game
Why similar: Fantasy 44.4%, Funny 35.9%, Adventure 19.7%
- #52 Automaton Heart
62% matchVery Positive97% of 79 reviews2026
Dev: Luke Vincent
Windows · Linux
Automaton Heart is an RPG with platforming elements where you visit obscure and interesting places while upgrading your organs and strategizing about which items to bring along.
Why similar: RPG 35.6%, Action RPG 26.3%, Adventure 20.2%, Action 17.9%
- #53 Athenian Rhapsody
63% matchVery Positive90% of 369 reviews2024
Dev: Nico PapaliaPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Forge your own story and explore the world of Athens in Athenian Rhapsody, a souls-like platonic dating simulator with cooking-mama and WarioWare style battle mechanics... and by that I mean it's a choose-your-own-adventure action RPG with the ability to trade ENTIRE PLAYTHROUGHS between friends!!
Why similar: RPG 29.3%, JRPG 28.7%, Action RPG 25.2%, Funny 12.3%, Adventure 4.6%
- #54 Blue Archive
58% matchVery Positive92% of 21,512 reviews2025
Dev: NEXON GamesPub: NEXON Korea
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 84.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
An action anime RPG adventure!
Why similar: Funny 61.4%, RPG 34.5%, Fantasy 4.1%
- #55 The Kotonoha Sisters and the Legend of Lysant Island
65% matchVery Positive94% of 155 reviews2021
Dev: DeskClub Games
Windows
This game is a turn-based action RPG that moves around in a 3D space where you can enjoy various scenery with cute 2D characters. Operate the Kotonoha sisters and explore a fun and mysterious island!
Why similar: RPG 37%, Action RPG 26%, Adventure 14.3%, Action 13.9%, Fantasy 8.7%