Games like Paign

Looking for that same retro and story-driven spark as Paign? These games could fill that gap nicely.

Risen
A gritty open world RPG on the island of Faranga, where earthquakes shake the ground, monsters own the wilderness and every action has a consequence. Fight with a sword, learn staff fighting or become a mage, join a faction and claw your way from shipwrecked nobody to someone the island remembers. Over 60 hours of exploration.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
89% of 7,941 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 122$14.99
Pale Coins
Pale Coins is an old-school top-down action RPG set across the rough land of Grenmark. You pick a class, wander forests, ruins, volcanoes and lightless caverns, and chase the fabled Champion's Coin through punishing bosses, goblin-infested dungeons and branching quests, building your fighter from random loot, stats and pale coins.
Retro, Story-driven, Mysterious
93% of 319 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
The Quest
The Quest is a beautifully hand-drawn open world role playing game with old school grid-based movement, turn based combat and intricate quests. Explore a huge world, full of challenging mysteries and dangerous monsters!
Retro, Story-driven, Mysterious
86% of 509 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Gedonia
An open world RPG in the spirit of the old classics: build your character any way you like, join factions, clear dungeons, solve puzzles and raise a farmhouse. A huge, atmospheric fantasy world that rewards wandering off the path, and lets you play it differently every time.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
87% of 3,694 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$14.99
Banquet for Fools
The Pavura needs four volunteers to solve the mystery of an abandoned village. Answer the call to adventure in this party-based beat ‘em up RPG!
Retro, Story-driven, Mysterious
89% of 977 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Gothic 1 Classic
A prisoner with no name and no skills is thrown into a walled penal colony where the inmates run the place. Gothic 1 Classic is a tough, atmospheric RPG about surviving first and getting strong later, in a world that keeps living whether you watch it or not.
Retro, Story-driven, Mysterious
91% of 13,267 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 159$19.99
Pillars of Eternity
An isometric fantasy RPG in the spirit of the 90s classics, built on a brand new world. Souls are its currency and its mystery: children are born without them, a stranger carries a borrowed one, and the truth runs all the way up to the gods. Eleven classes, six races, factions to side with, and a story that asks what you would trade.
Retro, Story-driven, Mysterious
87% of 17,058 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 157
Moonring
Explore a hand-built overworld, delve dungeons that rearrange themselves, earn Gifts from the gods and decide whether to claim the Archon's throne. No handholding, no quest markers, just a bright neon world full of secrets.
Retro, Story-driven, Mysterious
95% of 2,489 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16Free
Quest for Infamy
Wealth. Women. Wildly offbeat jokes. Lie, cheat, steal, and embrace your inner rogue. Being bad has never felt so good.
Retro, Story-driven, Mysterious
89% of 124 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
YAR: Forgotten Throne
A story-driven open-world RPG built on Slavic folklore. Pick a Warrior, Volkhv or Archer, explore the darkened lands of Borea, craft, build and fight your way through 100+ quests to find out what is poisoning the forests. Fully voiced, atmospheric, and harder than it looks.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
89% of 1,301 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$19.99
A Quest That Became Legend
A Quest That Became Legend is a game inspired by old school RPG classics, with turn based combat and an open world environment. Set out on an epic quest to defeat the dark conjurers and save your world from destruction.
Retro, Replayable
83% of 83 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Prodigal
Journey through a vibrant world fighting vicious monsters, exploring puzzling dungeons, and collecting magical artifacts. Unravel the mysteries of Vann's Point and bond with all of its curious townsfolk!
Retro, Story-driven, Mysterious
91% of 598 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$1.34

Cheaper than Paign

Prodigal

Journey through a vibrant world fighting vicious monsters, exploring puzzling dungeons, and collecting magical artifacts.

$1.34

Vampire's Fall: Origins

A 2D open-world RPG with a dark, old-school streak. You join a village militia as rumors of a Witchmaster spread, then find out fate has other plans.

$12.99

Fearless Fantasy

As Leon, the world’s most dangerous bounty hunter, you embark on a mission to slay the world’s weirdest creatures, and save a girl from an awful…

$1.39

Bloody Ending

A story like you've never seen before. Weapons and equipment to be created by different blacksmiths. Original puzzle games. Fearsome bosses to defeat.

$0.99

Forge Quest

Forge Quest is a dungeon crawling rpg set in a voxel world. Explore the land full of chickens on a light hearted quest to become a hero.

$0.99

Unforgiving Trials: The Darkest Crusade

Embark on an epic adventure to save the lands. Form a party by selecting 4 different adventurers from a pool of over 12 unique classes.

$0.99

The Princess' Heart

With a style inspired by Earthbound and Final Fantasy 3, The Princess' Heart features up to 15 hours of epic fantasy gameplay.

$0.99

Hero of the Kingdom II

Hunt for hidden objects, trade your way to a ship and sail the islands in search of your sister, where nothing punishes you for taking it slow.

$1.34

Pale Echoes

An RPG of exploration, collection, and critical thinking. The end of the world has come and gone, leaving only phantoms where once there was life.

$0.99

Expect The Unexpected

Expect The Unexpected is a roguelike, fast-paced, turn-based game with RPG elements.

Rogue Port - Red Nightmare

Help reunite your missing friends and save your family from wild animals, mutants, inanimate objects, aliens and the undead!

$0.49

The Memory of Eldurim

Begin a quest for long-lost truth on your vivid journey through a new fantasy world.

$0.99

Hidden gems like Paign

YAR: Forgotten Throne

Choose your class, explore the poisoned lands of Borea, and uncover the darkness behind a Slavic fantasy tale.

$19.99

Banquet for Fools

The Pavura needs four volunteers to solve the mystery of an abandoned village. Answer the call to adventure in this party-based beat ‘em up RPG!

$19.99

Pale Coins

Pale Coins is an old-school top-down action RPG set across the rough land of Grenmark.

$9.99

The RPG

Raid a fantasy dungeon that doubles as a tourist attraction, while a glitching dragon unravels the game around you.

$14.99

Moonring

A turn-based open world RPG where every run uncovers new secrets, from shifting dungeons to a throne you may claim for yourself.

Free

Dread Delusion

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

$19.99

The Story Page

An indie Online RPG game set in an open world from a solo developer.

$7.99

Forsaken Realms: Vahrin's Call

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.

$34.99

The Secret of Darkwoods

Open-world illustrated text-based RPG. Inspired by classic role-playing video games and fantasy gamebooks, the secret of darkwoods is a free game, a…

Free

Grim Quest - Old School RPG

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

$5.99

Gedonia

A classic open world fantasy RPG about exploring a huge world, shaping your own character and uncovering its mysteries.

$14.99

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

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

$44.99

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