The past few years have felt like an embarrassment of riches when it comes to RPGs, and so expectations were high going into 2025. Thankfully, the last 12 months certainly lived up to such a bar.

With 2025 winding down, many of us are looking ahead to 2026. But before we flip the calendars to a fresh slate of new releases, I’m here to make sure you don’t miss some of the best new RPGs of 2025.

Typically, the biggest and most hyped games of a given year are slated for launch between October and December. Most land in November to capitalize on the hype and the spending spree of the holiday ...

Murillo Zerbinatto is a contributor from Brazil. He's a JRPG enthusiast who has been around the world of games and content creation for more than six years now. He has a particular love for Final ...

Andrea is an editor at GameRant, where she has been writing professionally about video games for nearly five years. She became a gamer for life at 8, thanks to a copy of Pokemon Red and her Game Boy.

Defining a role-playing game in 2025 is more complicated than it’s ever been. Pretty much every game has RPG elements these days, so if you squint hard enough, you can make the case for a lot of games ...