Games Like The RPG Engine

TaleSpire is a beautiful way to play pen and paper RPGs online. Bring your stories to life and embark upon campaigns together with your friends, regardless of where you are in the world.

Why similar: Tabletop 32.4%, Party-Based RPG 19.2%, Building 16.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, RPG 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A premier 3D virtual tabletop that excels at building immersive, detailed environments for your party to explore.

Transform your virtual tabletop RPG experience in Game Master Engine’s lush 3D multiplayer RPG simulator. Whether you're a seasoned game master or just starting out, GME makes it easy to explore, create, and run custom games, all while bringing your players together for unforgettable adventures.

Why similar: Tabletop 31.8%, Building 19.4%, Party-Based RPG 17.1%, Sandbox 13.5%, RPG 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated tool for building 3D battlemaps and running tabletop sessions with a focus on ease of use.

RPG Stories 3D World Builder VTT lets you create any indoor or outdoor environment, then either export your maps to other VTTs or invite friends to play your tabletop RPG sessions online in 3D. It fully supports all three major TTRPG eras—Fantasy, Modern, and Sci-Fi.

Why similar: Tabletop 28.7%, Party-Based RPG 17.2%, Building 16%, Sandbox 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive 3D world-building tool that functions as a virtual tabletop for both fantasy and modern settings.

DFD: Game Master Edition is the ultimate TTRPG toolkit to bring your games to the next level. With the ability to host and manage sessions, create limitless characters and maps, and access exclusive GM tools. This edition offers unparalleled control over your tabletop experiences.

Why similar: Tabletop 26%, Party-Based RPG 21.3%, Sandbox 17.1%, Character Customization 12.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A VR-compatible virtual tabletop that lets you experience your custom campaigns from the perspective of your characters.

Tabletop Simulator is the only simulator where you can let your aggression out by flipping the table! There are no rules to follow: just you, a physics sandbox, and your friends. Make your own online board games or play the thousands of community created mods. Unlimited gaming possibilities!

Why similar: Tabletop 63.8%, Sandbox 18.7%, Simulation 5.5%, Strategy 4.6%, RPG 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: The most versatile sandbox platform for playing virtually any board game or tabletop RPG with custom assets.

Dungeon Alchemist is mapmaking software for tabletop RPG's that enables you to make amazing, high-quality maps in seconds!

Why similar: Tabletop 66.6%, RPG 15.8%, Stylized 9.7%, 3D 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: An AI-powered map-making tool that allows you to generate high-quality fantasy environments in seconds.

Roll for initiative, take attacks of opportunity, manage player location and the verticality of the battle field in this Turn-Based Tactical RPG based on the SRD 5.1 Ruleset. In Solasta, you make the choices, dice decide your destiny.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 45.3%, Character Customization 29.4%, RPG 14.1%, Story Rich 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical RPG that faithfully implements the 5th Edition ruleset, perfect for those who love the mechanics of D&D.

Virtual tabletop experience for TTRPG groups with updated visuals and vast library support, including D&D 5E, Pathfinder, and more. Create unforgettable adventures with tools like dice, sheets, tokens, and maps. Prep less, play better with automated game mechanics.

Why similar: Tabletop 39.1%, Party-Based RPG 36.5%, RPG 9.3%, Strategy 8.6%, Story Rich 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic, feature-rich virtual tabletop platform designed to handle complex rulesets and automation for D&D.

Tabletopia is a sandbox virtual table with high-quality board games and ready setups. Already 2,400+ games and counting! Play how you want with whom you want: guests don’t need accounts to play. Or make your own games, no programming skills required.

Why similar: Tabletop 44%, Sandbox 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Strategy 6.4%, RPG 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A browser-integrated platform for playing board games that offers a wide variety of tabletop experiences.

Return to the Forgotten Realms in this bestselling Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Combines all the content of Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition with all-new enhanced features. Includes 100+ hours of award-winning adventures and the tools to create your own!

Why similar: Character Customization 50.8%, RPG 32.6%, Story Rich 16.6%

Why You'll Like It: Includes a robust toolset that allows players to build and host their own persistent worlds and modules.

The modern digital tabletop game for fans and creators! Featuring deep customization and choice, enjoy more immersive tabletop sessions with friends than ever before. Build new rule sets for traditional games, play custom-made games by the community or create your own and share them with the world.

Why similar: Tabletop 33.7%, Party-Based RPG 19.9%, Strategy 16.9%, Sandbox 15.7%, Simulation 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based sandbox simulator that provides a flexible environment for playing and creating custom tabletop games.

Adventure and fight in a medieval fantasy open world! Build heroic characters with various abilities, travel through villages, cities, or perilous dungeons. Strategic turn-based combat system and advanced character building - Fog of war, charging and flanking, and more in the fast-paced Arena mode.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 35.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 24.9%, Sandbox 18.3%, Character Customization 15.6%, Strategy 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical turn-based RPG that focuses heavily on the mechanics and combat feel of tabletop gaming.

Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 41%, Turn-Based Tactics 23.9%, Character Customization 18.9%, Story Rich 7.1%, RPG 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A procedural storytelling RPG that captures the feeling of a collaborative tabletop campaign through its unique narrative generation.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.

Why similar: Character Customization 44.3%, RPG 28.3%, Story Rich 16.2%, Strategy 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive digital D&D experience, offering unparalleled freedom and choice-driven storytelling.

Realm Engine is a system-agnostic Tabletop world builder that supports both building and running your choice of role-playing game.

Why similar: Tabletop 40%, Turn-Based Tactics 22.4%, Building 19.2%, RPG 8.8%, Simulation 5%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D virtual tabletop that provides tools for building and playing custom fantasy adventures.

A tactical roguelike RPG inspired by our favorite tabletop games that lets you create any ability, item, villain, hero, and game imaginable.

Why similar: Tabletop 27.5%, Party-Based RPG 19.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.6%, RPG 12.5%, Strategy 11%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical dungeon crawler that includes powerful creation tools for making your own characters and campaigns.

Experience the freedom normally only found in a tabletop RPG. Empowered with magic, you will create your own story, and experience real consequences from the decisions you make. Will you be the world’s savior... or its destroyer? The choice is yours.

Why similar: Tabletop 43.7%, Sandbox 18.4%, Character Customization 13%, Story Rich 7.5%, RPG 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox RPG that emphasizes the emergent storytelling and freedom of a tabletop campaign.

Tales of Fablecraft is a virtual tabletop RPG. It’s easy for GMs and players to learn, whether you've slain many dragons or are completely new to the genre. Fablecraft features its own system, gorgeous human-made art, pre-built campaigns that eliminate prep, and a growing list of homebrew tools.

Why similar: Tabletop 26.8%, Party-Based RPG 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.2%, RPG 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative tabletop RPG designed for online play with a focus on accessibility and shared storytelling.

Age of Reforging: The Freelands is a medieval high-freedom sandbox adventure CRPG. You'll be a reforger in the freelands chosen by the Goddess to embark on a medieval adventure tour at your own pace, gathering teammates, fighting for survival, and craft your unique legend!

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 33.2%, Sandbox 24.3%, Character Customization 14.2%, Exploration 10.9%, RPG 9%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox adventure game that offers the exploration and tactical freedom found in open-ended tabletop campaigns.

Play on randomly generated worlds with a party of characters just the way you like it. You will not be bounded by classes or scripted story, only by your creativity. Make your own journey. Tell your own history.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, RPG 16.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.9%, Strategy 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dungeon crawler focused on procedural generation, providing endless tactical combat scenarios.

Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown is a role playing adventure that brings tabletop gaming to life in virtual reality! Also includes a new non-VR mode for players without VR hardware. Join a band of scoundrels in this unique sea-faring tabletop RPG adventure!

Why similar: Tabletop 27.2%, Party-Based RPG 24.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, RPG 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A board game-style RPG that brings a tactile, miniature-based aesthetic to digital storytelling.

Erannorth Renaissance is a text driven gamebook with sandbox elements. Create your hero, build their party, and shape your journey. Set in an open world, it mixes text based narrative, turn based combat, deep character customization, and sandbox freedom.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Character Customization 15.1%, Exploration 7%

Why You'll Like It: A highly moddable, card-based RPG that allows players to craft their own unique interactive fiction experiences.

A singleplayer/multiplayer RPG reminiscent of TTRPGs mixed with MUD games but with content generated by an AI Game Master.

Why similar: Tabletop 29.5%, Party-Based RPG 28.6%, Sandbox 18.5%, Character Customization 10.7%, RPG 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox-oriented RPG software that provides tools for party-based storytelling and world exploration.

3DRPG is a voxelized old-school RPG where you explore a Randomly Generated world filled with random dungeons, towns and people! Every character in the game is recruitable. Hunt for prey or go fishing for food. Search for treasure in dungeons and fight monsters on the way!

Why similar: Voxel 30.2% ★, Party-Based RPG 23.5%, Sandbox 14.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.9%, Character Customization 12%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based dungeon crawler that allows for procedural generation and creative exploration.

A cozy visual novel about running a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.3%, Interactive Fiction 31.7%, Relaxing 13.5%, Story Rich 10.6%, Simulation 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-focused game that captures the social, roleplay-heavy side of sitting around a tavern in a fantasy world.

Ready your sword, pack your provisions and prepare to embark upon quests in which YOU are the hero! Choose what happens at every turn of the page with Fighting Fantasy Classics – text-based roleplaying adventures remastered.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.4%, Tabletop 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, RPG 10.2%, Story Rich 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A digital adaptation of classic interactive fiction that leans into the roots of choose-your-own-adventure storytelling.

Craft a party of diverse characters, each with customizable skills and looks. Explore a living world with dynamic day-night cycles, changing seasons, and diverse biomes. Embark on an epic journey where you shape your destiny as the director of your unique story.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 29.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 22.4%, Sandbox 20.9%, Character Customization 14.5%, RPG 6.9%

Lawless Lands is a dark medieval role-playing game featuring a grim setting and innovative mechanics that allow players to delve into a low-fantasy, apocalyptic world of epic proportions. Defy and destroy the darkness that has taken hold over these Lawless Lands.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Party-Based RPG 21.6%, Lore-Rich 16.6%, Character Customization 16.4%, RPG 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty, tabletop-inspired RPG that emphasizes character customization and dark fantasy exploration.

Dive into a living medieval fantasy sandbox RPG where the world moves with or without you and factions rise and fall. Become a thief, hunter, or sellsword, survive alone or with a party, and shape your story in a fully enterable world where every building, cave, and road hides opportunity or danger.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 26.2%, Sandbox 20.3%, Building 19.3%, Character Customization 10.9%, Exploration 8.7%

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: Tabletop 24.8%, Party-Based RPG 23.5%, Sandbox 15.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.9%, RPG 6.8%

This virtual table top (VTT) is designed specifically for in-person play on a TV or monitor. Easily import maps into your library, format them, and add them to your campaign. Maps are then displayed along with fog of war, digital tokens, grid overlay, and more.

Why similar: Tabletop 38.8%, Party-Based RPG 31.1%, Immersive Sim 16.3%, RPG 8.9%, Simulation 5%

An all new way to create and play tabletop games in beautiful animated 3D maps!

Why similar: Tabletop 33.1%, Party-Based RPG 29.8%, Sandbox 19.4%, RPG 8.7%, Simulation 5.1%

From a consumer of stories to a creator of them. Saga & Seeker is a "storycrafting game" where you can generate endless tales with your favorite characters. The words you write become a part of the story itself in this immersive entertainment experience powered by your imagination.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.7%, Character Customization 34.3%, RPG 18.4%, Story Rich 12.6%

Embark on an epic journey, enjoying complete freedom in a dynamic sandbox RPG. The world and its inhabitants will witness your deeds and react accordingly, adapting the narrative to your choices and delivering a truly unique and free experience.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 32.5%, Sandbox 30.4%, Character Customization 23.2%, RPG 10.4%, 3D 3.5%

Age of Fear: The Free World is an introduction to a decade-old turn-based strategy series that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements. Choose your faction (Undead Legion, Human Kingdom or Greenskins Horde), build a unique army and embark on exploring the realm!

Why similar: Tabletop 27.2%, Party-Based RPG 26.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.8%, Character Customization 12.6%, RPG 5.9%

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: Party-Based RPG 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Character Customization 12.2%, Exploration 8.6%

Create a custom character, and be whoever you want to be! Enjoy traversing strange worlds, and mastering action command combat as you fight strange and odd and weird enemies and bosses! Remember, this is your adventure!

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 61.4%, RPG 27.4%, Colorful 11.1%

RPG World – THE Action RPG Maker! Unleash your imagination with RPG World and create, share and play amazing 3D games with our growing community. Claim glory and treasure as you conquer magical worlds, alone or as a team. No coding required!

Why similar: Sandbox 40.7%, Building 38.6%, RPG 20.7%

Explore unique & immersive booths from your favorite games. Watch exclusive trailers, compete in mini-games, and connect with players, creators & developers from around the world. All inside a living, free multiplayer experience.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.1%, Immersive Sim 22.5%, Character Customization 17.3%, Exploration 11.3%, Relaxing 7.6%

Conductor is an audiovisual experience creation engine that encourages you to craft, save, and share funky environments with its vibrantly creative tool-set alongside all of your favorite media.

Why similar: Sandbox 35.1%, Immersive Sim 26.5%, Relaxing 12.3%, Simulation 8.2%, Stylized 7.1%

Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.

Why similar: Character Customization 53.1%, RPG 26.2%, Story Rich 20.6%

An open-world adventure RPG. Choose your favorite character, train your elite legion step by step, and crush all enemies on the battlefield. Strengthen yourself, establish a powerful family, create a great dynasty, and become the dominator of this fantasy world.

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 42%, Sandbox 29.2%, RPG 9.3%, Strategy 8.3%, Character Customization 5.9%

An immersive 3D social simulation MMO where you customize your avatar, build and decorate rooms, collect rare items, and join live community events in a nostalgic yet ever-evolving virtual world.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 31.1%, RPG 23.6%, Exploration 16.7%, Character Customization 15.7%, 3D 7%

Craft your culinary adventure in a beautiful pixel art world. Manage your restaurants, forage and hunt for ingredients, befriend locals, and grow your culinary empire. What kind of chef will you be?

Why similar: Building 32.2%, Immersive Sim 24.1%, RPG 15.4%, Exploration 12.5%, Relaxing 9.5%

Forge your own destiny! Choose your character, equip your best spells and sail from island to island in quest of fortune and glory. Level up your hero and your strategy in this free-to-play tactical multiplayer RPG with unique colorful graphics.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 44.7%, Character Customization 32.8%, RPG 14.7%, Colorful 4.3%, Strategy 3.4%

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.

Why similar: Voxel 42% ★, Party-Based RPG 33.9%, Character Customization 11.9%, RPG 9.7%, 3D 2.6%

A 4X strategy game in a fantasy RPG world. Create your own sovereign hero, build a dynasty, design custom units, and wage turn-based war across a world that's different every time you play. Every unit is an individual with their own name, gear, and story.

Why similar: Building 26.5%, Character Customization 24.4%, Exploration 12.9%, RPG 11%, Strategy 10.9%

Create your own unique religion in god simulator strategy sandbox games

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 42.2%, Strategy 17%, Simulation 10.7%, Stylized 9%, 3D 7.6%

This is an experimental project, a sandbox life simulator that gives you the power to suggest how the game should evolve, which features we should focus on, which slice of life to tell and everything you can imagine.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.2%, Sandbox 29%, Character Customization 16.1%, Relaxing 8.7%, Simulation 8.3%

This is the free version of the game "Ale & Tale Tavern". Get ready for a thrilling mix of genres: a cooperative, first-person, open-world fantasy tavern simulator, action, fishing, hunting, exploration, and completing fun and diverse quests. And, of course, COOKING!

Why similar: Sandbox 30.2%, Immersive Sim 25.2%, Character Customization 14.6%, Relaxing 9.2%, Simulation 8%

Epic Manager is a unique crossover between Sports Management and classic JRPGs. Experience an addictive “one more turn” mix of tycoon strategy, roguelike elements, roster management, combat and character progression, all rooted in an epic yet light-hearted fantasy setting. Rated ‘E’ for EPIC!

Why similar: Party-Based RPG 39.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 34%, RPG 8.7%, Strategy 8%, Story Rich 6.1%

From the creators of Game Dev Tycoon comes Tavern Keeper 🍻, a cosy-chaotic management sim, featuring a powerful decoration sandbox and a magical storybook RPG!

Why similar: Building 21.4%, Sandbox 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Strategy 7.1%

Create your own creatures to explore online worlds with friends and collect new parts to upgrade your stats and abilities! Complete quests, battle enemies, challenge friends to minigames, or just have fun roleplaying — the possibilities are endless when your imagination is the limit!

Why similar: Sandbox 38.1%, Character Customization 30%, Exploration 13%, RPG 10.6%, Simulation 8.4%

Lay of the Land is a sandbox adventure game set in a fantasy world where everything is physically simulated. Use the environment to your advantage and Explore, Fight, Loot and Build your way through mysterious lands.

Why similar: Voxel 41.9% ★, Sandbox 23.2%, Building 16.9%, Exploration 9.2%, RPG 8.8%

Decide the fate of the world in this ingenious story-driven card game. Foretales offers a unique take on the adventure genre, with a multitude of playstyles and story paths through which you can save the world… or bring about its end.

Why similar: Tabletop 34.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Exploration 8.6%, Story Rich 7.2%

Sculpt your island, design places for other players to explore, and even set traps or create puzzles in the Lost Skies: Island Creator! Each island tells its own story; are you ready to craft yours?

Why similar: Building 49.8%, Sandbox 44.3%, Simulation 5.9%