The best rpg games like Assassin's Creed Odyssey are Assassin's Creed Origins, Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Ghost of Tsushima. Below are 7, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to rpg costs you.
Filtering to RPG means you want progression — a character to build or a party to grow — layered on top of whatever else you liked.
What you get: A reason to keep going after the novelty wears off. RPGs are the genre that reliably converts hours into feeling more capable.
What made Assassin's Creed Odyssey worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the rpg part of that answer, and only the rpg part.
Tighter, better paced, and the better story of the two.
The follow-up, broken into regional arcs that are easier to finish.
The best-feeling open world of that generation.
Same scale, far better side content.
Open-world adventure with genuinely great combat.
Greek mythology done superbly, and it respects your time.
If you want an open world that rewards curiosity rather than marks it.
Immediacy. Almost every RPG asks for a slow first few hours, and the systems that make hour forty good are the same ones that make hour one a menu.
Specifically, these are strong answers for Assassin's Creed Odyssey that are not rpg games, so they are not on this page:
The full list is on games like Assassin's Creed Odyssey — 9 picks, no genre filter.
Assassin's Creed Origins. Tighter, better paced, and the better story of the two.
No. Assassin's Creed Odyssey released on the PC & Modern Multi-Platform, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.
Whether the stats are the point. In an RPG the build decides what you can do; in an action game with stats the build only decides how fast you do it.
No. The picks below span turn-based, real-time and action RPGs, and each one says which it is.
By hand. Each pick was written for the full Assassin's Creed Odyssey list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is rpg — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.
Or read the rpg guide for where to start in the genre generally.