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Every year right here at RPG Website, we wrap up a yr of hopefully nice RPG-playing motion by publically polling you, our readers, to search out out what YOU ranked as one of the best RPGs of the yr. As regular, we enable consideration for each pure-blood RPGs and some adjoining video games that we really feel RPG followers would take pleasure in. 

We had you vote in two separate polls: Your favourite RPG of 2023 and your most anticipated RPG for 2024. We already posted our Workers Better of 2023 Awards and our personal Most Anticipated for 2024, however we needed to listen to what you needed to say. We’ve got outcomes for each polls listed under.

1000’s of you voted, and as ever the outcomes are attention-grabbing. As with earlier years, there are locations that mirror our employees decisions and locations that supply a special, different take from ours. So… how did you, the nice RPG-playing public, vote? Small reminder: Our polling launch interval goes from December 2022 to December 2023.

Listed below are the outcomes. Outcomes are given as percentages of the full variety of votes.

Your Prime Ten RPGs of 2023

1. Baldur’s Gate 3 – 23.6% (Larian – PS5/PC)

2. Octopath Traveler II – 13.0% (Sq. Enix – PS5/PS4/Swap/PC)

3. Last Fantasy XVI – 9.1% (Sq. Enix – PS5)

4. The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie – 4.4% (NIS America – PS5/PS4/Swap/PC)

5. Sea of Stars – 4.1% (Sabotage Studio – PS4/XB1/Swap/PC)

6. Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty – 4.1% (CD Projekt RED – PS5/XS/PC)

7. Chained Echoes – 4.0% (Deck13 – PS4/XB1/Swap/PC)

8. Star Ocean: The Second Story R – 3.6% (Sq. Enix – PS5/PS4/Swap/PC)

9. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 3.3% (Nintendo – Swap)

10. Lies of P – 2.9% (Neowiz – PS5/PS4/XS/XB1/PC)

Readers’ Selection Favourite 2022 RPGs – Further Info and Feedback

• Our ninth yr of the fan ballot sees Baldur’s Gate 3 be part of 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 reader’s ballot winners. (2015 Outcomes / 2016 Outcomes / 2017 Outcomes / 2018 Outcomes / 2019 outcomes / 2020 outcomes / 2021 outcomes / 2022 outcomes).
• Some “slender misses” outdoors the highest ten embrace Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed and Fireplace Emblem Have interaction.
• Whereas Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3 is the clear total winner of the ballot, Sq. Enix is the writer with the very best mixed vote depend with three titles within the prime ten.
• A single vote separated Sea of Stars from Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, and each of these titles have been solely a handful of votes above Chained Echoes. Each vote counts!
• Final yr, no Western RPGs made their means into the highest ten vote-getters. In 2023, 4 Western-developed video games seem within the prime ten, essentially the most in RPG Website polling historical past.

Your Readers’ Selection Most Anticipated 2024 RPGs

1. Last Fantasy VII Rebirth – 20.4% (Sq. Enix)

2. Dragon’s Dogma 2 – 10.3% (Capcom)

3. Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth – 7.7% (Sega)

4. Persona 3: Reload – 7.1% (Sega)

5. Metaphor: ReFantazio – 5.8% (Sega)

6. Hades II – 5.8% (Supergiant Video games)

7. The Legend of Heroes: Trails Via Dawn – 5.2% (NIS America)

8. Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes – 5.0% (505 Video games)

9. Granblue Fantasy Relink – 3.9% (Cygames)

10. Unicorn Overlord – 3.7% (Sega)

Readers’ Selection Most Anticipated 2023 RPGs – Further Info and Feedback

• That is RPG Website’s sixth yr polling our readers for his or her Most Anticipated RPG of the upcoming yr. Last Fantasy VII Rebirth joins Elden Ring, Shin Megami Tensei V, Last Fantasy VII Remake, and Kingdom Hearts III. (2023 outcomes / 2022 outcomes / 2021 outcomes / 2020 outcomes / 2019 outcomes).
• Slender misses for the reader prime ten Most Anticipated embrace Last Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail.
• Whereas Sq. Enix‘s Last Fantasy VII Rebirth is the clear winner of the Most Anticipated vote, Sega is the writer with the very best variety of votes throughout 4 separate RPGs touchdown within the prime ten. It is trying like a giant yr for Sega RPGs from RGG Studio, Atlus, and Vanillaware.
• Supergiant Video games’ Hades is the one Western recreation within the reader’s ballot prime ten Most Anticipated video games, and it is extra roguelike motion than full role-playing recreation.
• Metaphor: ReFantazio solely beat Hades by a single vote.