Best RPGs Like Greedfall

The best rpg games like Greedfall are GreedFall II: The Dying World, Dragon Age: Inquisition and The Outer Worlds. 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 Greedfall

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 Greedfall 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 Greedfall

  1. 1. GreedFall II: The Dying World

    The follow-up, from the same studio.

  2. 2. Dragon Age: Inquisition

    The template GreedFall is built on.

  3. 3. The Outer Worlds

    Companion-led RPG with real dialogue solutions and a similar scale.

  4. 4. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

    Another mid-budget RPG that commits entirely to its setting.

  5. 5. Elex II

    By Piranha Bytes, with the same rough-edged ambition.

  6. 6. Mass Effect 2

    The best version of the companion-and-loyalty structure.

  7. 7. Divinity: Original Sin 2

    If you want the quest freedom with far better combat.

  8. 8. Jade Empire

    BioWare's other unusual-setting RPG.

  9. 9. Avowed

    A recent first-person RPG with a similar faction focus.

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 Greedfall — 9 picks, no genre filter.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best rpg game like Greedfall?

GreedFall II: The Dying World. The follow-up, from the same studio.

Are all of these on the PC & Modern Multi-Platform?

No. Greedfall 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.

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 Greedfall 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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