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RPG Website Better of 2025 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 2025 and your most anticipated RPG for 2026. We already posted our Workers Better of 2025 Awards and our personal Most Anticipated for 2026, however we wished to listen to what you needed to say. We have now outcomes for each polls listed under.

In some locations, your votes replicate equally to our workers choices, nevertheless it some locations the reader consensus took a unique 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 2024 to November 2025.

Your High Ten RPGs of 2025

  1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – 22.0% (Kepler / Sandfall)

  2. Trails within the Sky 1st Chapter – 20.3% (GungHo / Falcom)

  3. The Hundred Line: Final Protection Academy – 10.7% (Aniplex / Too Kyo Video games)

  4. Digimon Story: Time Stranger – 5.6% (Bandai Namco / Media Imaginative and prescient)

  5. Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Version – 4.2% (Nintendo / Monolith Tender)

  6. Deltarune Chapters 1-4 – 3.9% (tobyfox)

  7. Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake – 3.4 % (Sq. Enix / Artdink)

  8. Last Fantasy Techniques – The Ivalice Chronicles – 3.0% (Sq. Enix)

  9. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II – 2.8% (Deep Silver / Warhorse)

  10. Fantasy Life i: The Lady Who Steals Time – 2.6% (Stage-5)

Readers’ Alternative Favourite 2025 RPGs – Further Info and Feedback

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  • Our eleventh 12 months of the fan ballot sees Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 be a part of Metaphor: Refantzio, Baldur’s Gate 3, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Shin Megami Tensei V, Last Fantasy VII Remake, Fireplace Emblem: Three Homes, Dragon Quest XI, Persona 5, Last Fantasy XV, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as our readers’ ballot winners.
  • This 12 months, there was just one “slender miss” exterior the highest ten, which was Pokemon Legends: Z-A, dropping out on the tenth spot by solely a handful of votes.
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the primary recreation to win the Reader Ballot as a model new IP from a brand new developer.
  • Sq. Enix is the one writer with multiple title within the prime ten vote getters. 9 completely different publishers is essentially the most represented within the prime ten outcomes since 2015 (which showcased ten completely different publishers).
  • Coincidentally, 2015 was the final time tobyfox made the highest ten checklist, as Undertale ranked #3 that 12 months amongst readers.
  • 4 video games have been remakes or re-releases of some type, together with Trails within the Sky 1st Chapter, Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Version, Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake, and Last Fantasy Techniques – The Ivalice Chronicles. That’s the most in polling historical past (some earlier years had three re-releases within the prime ten).
  • Final 12 months, solely BioWare reached the highest ten with the lone Western-style RPG title in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, with no indie RPGs polling within the prime ten. This 12 months, now we have one Western-style RPG in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, one indie effort in Deltarune, and naturally the JRPG-inspired French-developed RPG in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Your Readers’ Alternative Most Anticipated 2026 RPGs

  1. Fireplace Emblem: Fortune’s Weave – 18.3% (Nintendo / Clever Programs)

  2. The Legend of Heroes: Trails past the Horizon – 14.2% (NIS America / Falcom)

  3. Trails within the Sky 2nd Chapter – 13.9% (GungHo / Falcom)

  4. Dragon Quest VII Reimagined – 9.1% (Sq. Enix)

  5. Monster Hunter Tales 3: Twisted Reflection – 3.8% (Capcom)

  6. Octopath Traveler 0 – 3.6% (Sq. Enix / DokiDoki Groove Works)

  7. Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement – 3.0% (505 Video games / Artplay)

  8. Destiny/Additional Report – 2.9% (Bandai Namco / Aniplex / Sort-Moon)

  9. The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales – 2.5% (Sq. Enix / Claytechworks)

  10. Onimusha: Manner of the Sword – 2.1% (Capcom)

Readers’ Alternative Most Anticipated 2026 RPGs – Further Info and Feedback

  • That is RPG Website’s eighth 12 months polling our readers for his or her Most Anticipated RPG of the upcoming 12 months. Fireplace Emblem: Fortune’s Weave joins Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Version, Last Fantasy VII Rebirth, Last Fantasy XVI, Elden Ring, Shin Megami Tensei V, Last Fantasy VII Remake, and Kingdom Hearts III. 
  • Slim misses for the reader prime ten Most Anticipated embody Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Darkish Ties, Abyss X Zero, Alabaster Daybreak and Clockwork Revolution.
  • Whereas Fireplace Emblem: Fortune’s Weave is the highest particular person vote getter, Falcom’s Trails sequence comfortably sit in each the #2 and #3 spots with each The Legend of Heroes: Trails past the Horizon and Trails within the Sky 2nd Chapter, though the 2 titles have completely different Western publishers. The mixed votes from these two entries significantly outpace Fireplace Emblem. 
  • Just one new IP made the highest ten checklist this 12 months in The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, though it’s broadly in Sq. Enix’s ‘sequence’ of HD-2D titles.
  • On account of our December-to-November eligibility interval, Octopath Traveler 0 is the primary December launch to make the Readers’ Most Anticipated checklist, which locations it within the admittedly-weird state of affairs the place it launches through the polling interval. It’s NOT the primary RPG to hit the Reader’s Alternative Favorites checklist (Chained Echoes within the 2023 ballot, having launched in December 2022.) We’ll must see how Octopath Traveler 0 ranks within the top-ten favorites of 2026 checklist subsequent 12 months.