Best RPGs Like Stellar Blade

The best rpg games like Stellar Blade are NieR: Automata, Lies of P and Black Myth: Wukong. Below are 5, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to rpg costs you.

Why RPG Is a Good Answer for Stellar Blade

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 Stellar Blade 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.

5 RPGs Like Stellar Blade

  1. 1. NieR: Automata

    The obvious aesthetic sibling, and it shares the same post-collapse setting.

  2. 2. Lies of P

    Parry-heavy soulslike with a strong sense of place.

  3. 3. Black Myth: Wukong

    Modern action with the same handcrafted-area structure.

  4. 4. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

    Deflect timing as the whole combat system.

  5. 5. Scarlet Nexus

    Anime action with a lighter touch and a good story.

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.

Specifically, these are strong answers for Stellar Blade that are not rpg games, so they are not on this page:

The full list is on games like Stellar Blade — 9 picks, no genre filter.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best rpg game like Stellar Blade?

NieR: Automata. The obvious aesthetic sibling, and it shares the same post-collapse setting.

Are all of these on the PlayStation 5?

No. Stellar Blade released on the PlayStation 5, 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 Stellar Blade 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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