
Bound By Flame
Fight through a frozen world with fire borrowed from the demon inside you, and decide how much of yourself it gets to keep.
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A mercenary possessed by a flame demon in a world frozen under seven Ice Lords. Bound By Flame is a dark action RPG where every choice counts: draw on the demon's power and watch your body change, or hold on to your humanity. Three combat styles, companions with their own loyalties, and endings shaped by what you decide.
Dark, Story-driven, Tense
You play the demon. Shadows: Awakening is an isometric action RPG where a soul-eating Devourer builds its party from dead heroes, swapping between fighter, mage and archer in an instant. Fight across two overlapping worlds, solve puzzles, loot and craft, and decide whether the Heretic Kingdoms get saved or ruined.
Dark, Story-driven, Cinematic
Embrace or resist the demonic influence around you. Romance your companions in this RPG with an emphasis on conversation choices and character interactions.
Dark, Story-driven, Cinematic
The war is over and the tyrant won. A dark, story-driven RPG where your choices redraw the map, and where working within a brutal system might be the most interesting moral question a CRPG has asked.
Dark, Story-driven, Cinematic
An open world RPG set on flying continents above a cursed, broken land. Explore mushroom forests and undead mausoleums, charm your way past fights, master strange magic, and let your choices reshape the world. Retro 3D looks, a rich story, and a world that rewards curiosity.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
A Slavic-myth action RPG where death is a fresh start. You are a soul that keeps taking new bodies, in an open world that changes with your choices. Battle gods or side with them, explore, cook, take out a loan, and try not to think about the debt collectors.
Dark, Story-driven, Tense
Lead the Fifth Crusade against demons pouring from the Worldwound rift, grow from mortal commander into something mythic, and decide what that power costs. Huge, crunchy, choice-driven CRPG worth playing for build tinkering and wildly different replays.
Dark, Story-driven, Tense
A 2D action RPG where Celtic myth meets grim dark fantasy. You arrive in a world whose captured spirits are furious, pick a side between two factions, and claw your way up from nobody with deliberate, stamina-hungry combat. No quest markers, just a handcrafted open world that rewards anyone who reads it closely.
Dark, Story-driven, Tense
A dark fantasy RPG about hard calls with real consequences and three possible endings, told through branching quests, tactical swordplay, signs and alchemy. Rough in places, and worth it for the story.
Dark, Story-driven, Cinematic
Drakensang is a party-based RPG built on The Dark Eye, Germany's classic pen and paper system. Lead up to four adventurers through a detailed fantasy world, fight with real-time-with-pause tactics, and shape characters from dozens of spells, talents and abilities. Slow, thoughtful and full of old-school charm.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
Dark Envoy is a party-based RPG set in Jaan, a war-torn world where human gunpowder and technology clash with elven magic. You play Malakai and Kaela, a brother and sister hunting relics who get pulled into a war they never chose. Slow time to command your party, build wild character kits, and make choices that shape the ending.
Dark, Story-driven, Tense
A third-person action RPG that brings to life the world of Gaia from the Anima: Beyond Fantasy RPG table-top books. Explore a deep and multifaceted story where your choices and actions directly impact the journey and decide the fate of the characters.
Dark, Story-driven, Cinematic

Fight through a frozen world with fire borrowed from the demon inside you, and decide how much of yourself it gets to keep.

Lead the Fifth Crusade against demons pouring from the Worldwound rift, grow from mortal commander into something mythic, and decide what that power…

A third-person action RPG that brings to life the world of Gaia from the Anima: Beyond Fantasy RPG table-top books.

A dark fantasy action adventure where you unbury a tale of intimacy and violence in order to cleanse a demonic infestation from a once-beautiful land.

Spend your skill points your way, cut through swarming mobs with three fighting styles, and carve a path to the dragon waiting at the end.

The last king was killed over 400 years ago and the global rule of the land ceased to exist.

Protect a noblewoman reckoning with unholy powers as she wards off the soul of the Demon King sealed inside her.

Fight angels and demons as a stripped-bare warrior, solving dungeons and chasing the truth across a dead Earth.

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Sudeki, a world torn apart into light, shadow and dark. Rent asunder by deceit and betrayal, the land cries out for a peace that only four united…

A dark fantasy RPG blending dungeon crawling, turn-based combat and roguelike mechanics with hand-drawn art and written storytelling.

Decipher a forbidden spellbook, investigate your father's death and keep your necromancy secret in an 18th-century town that would hang you for it.

A dice-driven dark fantasy RPG inspired by solo tabletop adventures.

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A soul drifting from body to body through a mythic open world, where every death reshapes the story and the ending is yours to decide.

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Wander strange floating continents, talk or fight your way past danger, and let your choices change a cursed land.

A 2D action RPG where Celtic myth meets grim dark fantasy. You arrive in a world whose captured spirits are furious, pick a side between two…

14th-century Europe is sick with plague and crawling with vampires who finally see their opening.

A mercenary fantasy action-RPG set in the war-torn Vale of Vahrin, where insect-like khraiax swarm the streets and something worse stirs below.

A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia.

Cross a decaying dark fantasy world as an Inquisitor, fighting through brutal timed combat to uncover what hides in Faelduum.

Protect a noblewoman reckoning with unholy powers as she wards off the soul of the Demon King sealed inside her.

A pixel-art action RPG where every swing costs stamina and every death teaches you something.

14th-century Europe is sick with plague and crawling with vampires who finally see their opening.

A mercenary fantasy action-RPG set in the war-torn Vale of Vahrin, where insect-like khraiax swarm the streets and something worse stirs below.

A dice-driven dark fantasy RPG inspired by solo tabletop adventures.

Breath of Life - a dark third-person action RPG. You are an Incarnation, born from the Void to tread where the dead cannot rest.

Hunt down nightmarish demons and save the town of Miami, AZ in this 80s-themed, isometric action-RPG.

This adventure is set in the lands of the Forgotten Realms, where perilous evil and great heroes are enveloped by magic, prophecy and mystery.

Decipher a forbidden spellbook, investigate your father's death and keep your necromancy secret in an 18th-century town that would hang you for it.

Wander a broken Avalon where every build, choice and ending is yours to shape.

Cross a decaying dark fantasy world as an Inquisitor, fighting through brutal timed combat to uncover what hides in Faelduum.

A 2D action RPG where Celtic myth meets grim dark fantasy. You arrive in a world whose captured spirits are furious, pick a side between two…

Wander strange floating continents, talk or fight your way past danger, and let your choices change a cursed land.