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RPG Website Better of 2024 Awards: Readers’ Alternative in Element


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All through the month of December, we had you vote in two separate polls: Your favourite RPG of 2024 and your most anticipated RPG for 2025. We already posted our Employees Better of 2024 Awards and our personal Most Anticipated for 2025, however we needed to listen to what you needed to say. Now we have outcomes for each polls listed beneath.

In some locations, your votes replicate equally to our employees choices, however it some locations the reader consensus took a distinct stance.

With out additional ado, listed below are the outcomes. Outcomes are given as percentages of the entire variety of votes.

Small reminder: Our polling launch interval goes from December 2023 to November 2024.

Your High Ten RPGs of 2024

  1. Metaphor: ReFantazio – 24.6% (Sega / Atlus’ Studio Zero – PS5/PS4/XS/PC)

  2. Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth – 17.7% (Sq. Enix – PS5)

  3. The Legend of Heroes: Trails By Dawn – 7.3% (NIS America / Falcom – PS5/PS4/Change/PC)

  4. Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth – 7.1% (Sega / Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio – PS5/PS4/XS/XB1/PC)

  5. Unicorn Overlord – 5.5% (Sega / Vanillaware – PS5/PS4/XS/Change)

  6. Granblue Fantasy: Relink – 3.7% (Cygames – PS5/PS4/PC)

  7. Dragon Age: The Veilguard – 3.4 % (EA / BioWare – PS5/XS/PC)

  8. Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake – 2.9% (Sq. Enix / Artdink – PS5/XS/Change/PC)

  9. Ys X: Nordics – 2.7% (NIS America / Falcom – PS5/PS4/Change/PC)

  10. Romancing SaGa: Revenge of the Seven – 2.6% (Sq. Enix / Xeen – PS5/PS4/Change/PC)

Readers’ Alternative Favourite 2024 RPGs – Further Details and Feedback

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  • Our tenth 12 months of the fan ballot sees Metaphor: Refantazio be a part of Baldur’s Gate 3, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Shin Megami Tensei V, Closing Fantasy VII Remake, Hearth Emblem: Three Homes, Dragon Quest XI, Persona 5, Closing Fantasy XV, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as our readers’ ballot winners.
  • Some “slender misses” exterior the highest ten embrace Persona 3 Reload, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Dealer, Dragon’s Dogma 2, and Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance.
  • Sega and Sq. Enix every had three titles within the prime ten, however Sega is the writer with the best mixed vote rely amongst our reader base, with three titles within the prime 5.
  • Ys X: Nordics beat Romancing SaGa: Revenge of the Seven by a single vote. Each vote counts!
  • Final 12 months, 4 Western RPGs made their means into the highest ten vote-getters, together with two unbiased RPGs. In 2024, solely BioWare represents the lone Western title, with no indie RPGs polling within the prime ten.

Your Readers’ Alternative Most Anticipated 2025 RPGs

  1. Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Version – 14.3% (Nintendo / Monolith Smooth)

  2. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – 9.5% (Kepler / Sandfall)

  3. Trails within the Sky 1st Chapter – 9.4% (GungHo / Falcom)

  4. Monster Hunter Wilds – 8.0% (Capcom)

  5. The Legend of Heroes: Trails By Dawn II – 5.4% (NIS America / Falcom)

  6. Pokemon Legends: Z-A – 4.6% (Nintendo / Recreation Freak)

  7. Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake – 4.4% (Sq. Enix / Artdink)

  8. Avowed – 4.3% (Microsoft / Obsidian)

  9. Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii – 3.6% (Sega / Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio)

  10. Suikoden I&II Remaster Gate and Dunan Unification Wars – 3.4% (Konami)

Readers’ Alternative Most Anticipated 2025 RPGs – Further Details and Feedback

  • That is RPG Website’s seventh 12 months polling our readers for his or her Most Anticipated RPG of the upcoming 12 months. Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Version joins Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth, Closing Fantasy XVI, Elden Ring, Shin Megami Tensei V, Closing Fantasy VII Remake, and Kingdom Hearts III. 
  • Slim misses for the reader prime ten Most Anticipated embrace Lunar Remastered Assortment, Atelier Yumia, and Fantasian Neo Dimension.
  • The mixed votes for Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Version and Pokemon Legends: Z-A locations Nintendo because the writer with the best variety of votes within the Most Anticipated class.
  • It is a sturdy displaying by the Falcom’s Trails collection, the place the mixed votes for Trails within the Sky 1st Chapter and The Legend of Heroes: Trails By Dawn II place it simply behind Nintendo, though the 2 titles have completely different Western publishers.
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 achieved the best vote share for a debut title from its studio. It’s the second-highest share obtained for a Western RPG within the Most Anticipated class (Cyberpunk 2077 achieved 10.2% of the vote in its 12 months).
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 solely beat Trails within the Sky 1st Chapter by a single vote. Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake solely beat Avowed by a single vote.