Best RPGs Like Final Fantasy X

The best rpg games like Final Fantasy X are Final Fantasy XII, Lost Odyssey and Final Fantasy VII. Below are 9, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to rpg costs you.

Why RPG Is a Good Answer for Final Fantasy X

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 Final Fantasy X 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.

9 RPGs Like Final Fantasy X

  1. 1. Final Fantasy XII

    The next mainline entry, and the gambit system is unlike anything else.

  2. 2. Lost Odyssey

    By Final Fantasy's original creator, and the closest thing to a spiritual sequel.

  3. 3. Final Fantasy VII

    The other icon, if you have not played it.

  4. 4. Sea of Stars

    A modern turn-based RPG built on this era's strengths.

  5. 5. Persona 5 Royal

    Turn-based combat with the strongest presentation in the genre.

  6. 6. Bravely Default II

    The best pure turn-based battle system on Switch.

  7. 7. Chrono Trigger

    Shorter, tighter, and the best-paced JRPG there is.

  8. 8. Xenogears

    PS1 Square at its most ambitious about story.

  9. 9. Octopath Traveler II

    Modern Square-Enix turn-based combat at its sharpest.

What This Filter Leaves Out

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.

The full list is on games like Final Fantasy X — 9 picks, no genre filter.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best rpg game like Final Fantasy X?

Final Fantasy XII. The next mainline entry, and the gambit system is unlike anything else.

Are all of these on the PlayStation 2?

No. Final Fantasy X released on the PlayStation 2, 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.

What is the difference between an RPG and an action game with stats?

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.

Do I need to like turn-based combat?

No. The picks below span turn-based, real-time and action RPGs, and each one says which it is.

How are these chosen?

By hand. Each pick was written for the full Final Fantasy X 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.

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