Best RPGs Like Lost Odyssey

The best rpg games like Lost Odyssey are Final Fantasy X, Blue Dragon and Sea of Stars. 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 Lost Odyssey

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 Lost 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.

9 RPGs Like Lost Odyssey

  1. 1. Final Fantasy X

    The mainline entry this is most in conversation with.

  2. 2. Blue Dragon

    Sakaguchi's other Xbox 360 RPG, lighter and more traditional.

  3. 3. Sea of Stars

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

  4. 4. Persona 5 Royal

    The best-presented turn-based RPG of the last decade.

  5. 5. Shadow Hearts: Covenant

    The Judgement Ring makes every action a timing check — the same idea, earlier.

  6. 6. Octopath Traveler II

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

  7. 7. Xenoblade Chronicles 3

    The biggest JRPG story of the modern era.

  8. 8. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

    Turn-based combat with reactive defence, and extraordinary art direction.

  9. 9. Legend of Dragoon

    Timed inputs on every attack, from the PS1 generation.

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 Lost Odyssey — 9 picks, no genre filter.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best rpg game like Lost Odyssey?

Final Fantasy X. The mainline entry this is most in conversation with.

Are all of these on the Xbox 360?

No. Lost Odyssey released on the Xbox 360, 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 Lost 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.

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