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Role-playing game
Role-playing video games (RPGs) form a loosely defined genre of computer and video games with origins in role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, borrowing much of their terminology, settings and game mechanics.
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Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy (ファイナルファンタジー) is a console role-playing game created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, developed and published in Japan by Square (now Square Enix) in 1987, and published in North America by Nintendo of America in 1990. It is the first game in...
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Strife
Strife is a first-person shooter video game developed by Rogue Entertainment and published by Velocity, based on the Doom engine (id Tech 1) from id Software. Strife added some role-playing game elements and allowed players to talk to other...
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Bloodwych
Bloodwych is a computer dungeon role-playing game developed for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS as well as the major 8-bit home computer platforms. It was developed by Image Works from 1989. Its box featured artwork by Chris Achilleos.
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- 1989
Pool of Radiance
Pool of Radiance is a computer role-playing game developed and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc (SSI) in 1988. It was the first computer adaptation of TSR's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D; or D&D;) fantasy role-playing game. It is the...
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Faxanadu
Faxanadu (ファザナドゥ, Fazanadu) is a platform adventure game for the Nintendo Family Computer (Famicom) and the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The name was licensed by computer game developer Nihon Falcom ("Falcom") and was developed and released...
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- Nov 17, 1987
Destiny of an Emperor
Destiny of an Emperor (天地を喰らう, Tenchi o Kurau) is a traditional console role-playing game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Loosely based upon Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms dramatic novel, it was released in the United States by...
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Starflight
Starflight is a computer game published by Electronic Arts and developed by Binary Systems in 1986. Originally developed for DOS and Tandy, it was later released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh and Commodore 64. A fully-revamped version of the...
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Pathways Into Darkness
Pathways Into Darkness is a video game created for the Apple Macintosh and published by the Bungie Software Products Corporation (now Bungie Studios) in 1993. Its tagline was "This is the closest you'll get to virtual reality without a helmet!"...
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Time Stalkers
Time Stalkers (known as Climax Landers in Japan) is a Dreamcast console role-playing game, a spin-off of the popular Sega Genesis game Landstalker (as well as the Japan-only Lady Stalker). The player initially takes the role of Sword, a character...
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Pokémon Colosseum
Pokémon Colosseum (ポケモンコロシアム, Pokemon Koroshiamu) is the first Nintendo GameCube incarnation of the Pokémon video game franchise. It incorporates elements of both the main handheld games in the series as well as the Pokémon Stadium games. It is...
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Treasure of the Rudras
Rudra no Hihō (ルドラの秘宝, Rudora no Hihō, lit. "Treasure of Rudra") is a role-playing video game released by Squaresoft in 1996, and among the last they developed for the Nintendo Super Famicom.
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Drakengard
Drakengard, known in Japan as Drag-On Dragoon (ドラッグオンドラグーン, Doragguon Doragūn), is a PlayStation 2 role playing game developed by cavia and published by Square Enix and Take Two Interactive. It was released on September 11, 2003 in Japan, on March 5...
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Curse of the Azure Bonds
Curse of the Azure Bonds is a computer role-playing game developed and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc (SSI) in 1989. It is the second in a four-part series of Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box adventure computer games.
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Alter Ego
Alter Ego is a personality computer game released by Activision in 1986. It was created by Peter J. Favaro, Ph.D., for the Commodore 64, PC (under DOS), Apple II, and the Macintosh. The game allows the user to make decisions for an imaginary person ...
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- 1986
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KotOR) is a role-playing game developed by BioWare and published by LucasArts. It was released for the Xbox on July 15, 2003, for Microsoft Windows on November 19, 2003, and on September 7, 2004 for Mac OS X....
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- Jul 15, 2003
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Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals
Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals ( エストポリス伝記II Estpolis DenkiⅡ in Japan ) is an RPG game with puzzle elements developed by Neverland and published in Japan in 1995 by Taito, and in North America and Europe in 1996 by Natsume and Nintendo respectively...
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Excalibur
Excalibur is a notable early resource-management/strategy computer game for the Atari 8-bit computers. It was designed by game design legend Chris Crawford, developed with the help of Larry Summers and Valerie Atkinson, and published by Atari...
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E.V.O.: Search for Eden
E.V.O.: Search for Eden, originally released in Japan as 46 Okunen Monogatari: Harukanaru Eden e (46億年物語 はるかなるエデンへ, "4.6 Billion Year Story: To Distant Eden"), is a side-scroller video game developed by Almanic Corporation and published by Enix for...
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Pools of Darkness
Pools of Darkness is the fourth in a four-part series of Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box adventure computer games, published by Strategic Simulations, Inc.. The game was released in 1991. The book loosely based on the game was released...
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The 7th Saga
The 7th Saga is a role playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, known as Elnard (エルナード) in Japan. The player chooses one of seven playable characters, all of whom separately embark on a quest to locate seven magical runes. As the...
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Chaos Strikes Back
Chaos Strikes Back is an expansion to Dungeon Master, the first 3D real-time action computer role-playing game. Chaos Strikes Back was released in 1989 and is also available on several platforms (including Atari ST, Amiga, X68000, PC-98, FM Towns...
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Precursors
Precursors is a video game from Kiev-based developer Deep Shadows, who also developed the game Boiling Point: Road to Hell. The game was first demonstrated in August 2005 at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany and at the Electronic...
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- 2007
Betrayal at Krondor
Betrayal at Krondor is a DOS-based computer role-playing game developed by Dynamix and published by Sierra On-Line in 1993. Betrayal at Krondor takes place largely in Midkemia, the fantasy world developed by Raymond E. Feist in his Riftwar novels....
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- Jun 22, 1993
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Legend of the Green Dragon
Legend of the Green Dragon (abbreviated LoGD or LotGD) is a humor text-based multi-player browser based game. It is a WWW-based implementation and homage to the classic BBS door game Legend of the Red Dragon. Originally written by Eric Stevens (...
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- Apr 1, 2005
Kingdom of Loathing
Kingdom of Loathing (abbreviated as KoL) is a browser-based, multiplayer role-playing game designed and operated by Asymmetric Publications, including creator Zack "Jick" Johnson and writer Josh "Mr. Skullhead" Nite. The game was released on...
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- Feb 11, 2003
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II The Sith Lords (KotOR II) is a role playing video game released for the Xbox and Microsoft Windows. The Xbox version of this sequel to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic was released on December 6, 2004,...
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Swords of Chaos
Swords of Chaos is a computer game made by Mark Peterson, it is a MUD type game for the Major BBS and Worldgroup BBS software, allowing it to be played over a dial-up connection with a modem: since the advent of the internet, it is also possible to...
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- 1990
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is a single-player role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks and the Take-Two Interactive subsidiary 2K Games. It is the fourth installment in The Elder Scrolls...
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Dnd
dnd is a computer role-playing game. The name dnd is derived from the abbreviation "DND" (D&D;) from the original role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, which was first published in 1974.
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Eamon
Eamon, sometimes known by the longer title The Wonderful World of Eamon, is a computer adventure game created by Donald Brown and released for the Apple II in 1980. The game is a text adventure similar to other early titles like Adventure (1976) or...
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- 1980
Phantom Brave
Phantom Brave (ファントム・ブレイブ, Fantomu Bureibu) is a tactical role-playing game for the Sony PlayStation 2 video game console developed and published by Nippon Ichi Software. It was released on January 22, 2004 in Japan, on August 31, 2004 in North...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age
The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age is a 2004 role-playing game by EA Games for all three of the late sixth-generation game consoles. The player controls a core group of characters that are used during the adventure, leveling up according to...
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Evolution Worlds
Evolution Worlds is a role-playing video game for the Nintendo GameCube. It was developed by Sting and published by Ubisoft on December 3, 2002. Evolutions Worlds is a dungeon-crawl game starring a character called Mag Launcher. It was originally...
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Sonic Battle
Sonic Battle is a fighting game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, developed by Sonic Team and published either by Sega (in Japan) or THQ (outside of Japan) for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. This is the second Sonic fighting game, the first being...
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- Dec 4, 2003
Killer7
killer7 (キラーセブン, kirāsebun) is an action-adventure video game jointly developed and published by Grasshopper Manufacture and Capcom for the Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2. It was released on June 9, 2005 in Japan; July 7, 2005 in the United...
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Albion
Albion is a computer role-playing game released by Blue Byte Software in 1995 for the PC. It was originally released in German, then translated to English for the rest of Europe.
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Mega Man Legends 2
Mega Man Legends 2, known in Japan as Rockman DASH 2 (ロックマンDASH2, Rokkuman Dasshu Tsū), is the sequel to Mega Man Legends. It was released for the PlayStation in April 2000 in Japan, October 2000 in North America and August 2001 in Europe. Unchanged...
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- Sep 8, 2005
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, previously known as S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Oblivion Lost, is a first-person shooter computer game by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World, published in 2007.
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Lagrange Point
Lagrange Point (ラグランジュポイント, Raguranju Pointo) is an RPG game by Konami, released only in Japan in 1991. The name references Lagrangian points, the five positions in space where a body of negligible mass could be placed which would then maintain its...
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Revelations: Persona
Revelations: Persona, released in Japan as Megami Ibunroku Persona (女神異聞録ペルソナ, Megami Ibunroku Perusona, lit. "Alternate Tale of the Goddess: Persona"), is the first game in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona series of role-playing video games for...
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- Sep 20, 1996
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Gladius
Gladius is a tactical role-playing video game, developed and published by LucasArts and Activision. It was released in 2003 for the GameCube, Xbox, and PlayStation 2 video game consoles.
The game allows the player to build a school of gladiators and...
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- Oct 29, 2003
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Stonekeep
Stonekeep is a 1995 computer role-playing game for DOS by Interplay Entertainment. It is a first-person dungeon adventure with pre-rendered environments and live-action cinematic sequences. Five years in production, Stonekeep was ranked #6 in...
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Spellcraft: Aspects of Valor
Spellcraft: Aspects of Valor is a strategy game by the relatively unknown developer, Asciisoft.
This is a game about Robert, a simple man with a destiny. It begins with him receiving a letter from a relative in England, and is invited to meet him at...
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- 1992
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Garry's Mod
Garry's Mod or GMod is a modification for the Source engine. It is a physics sandbox game that allows the player to manipulate objects and experiment with physics.
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Choro Q HG 4
ChoroQ (known as Choro Q HG 4 in Japan) is a PlayStation 2 game published by Atlus in the US, Zoo Digital Publishing in PAL regions and Takara in Japan. It was developed by Barnhouse Effect. The game is marketed as a "Car-PG": a hybrid of driving...
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Advanced Dungeons and Dragons: Heroes of the Lance
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance is a video game released in 1988 for various home computer systems and consoles. The game is based on the first Dragonlance campaign module, Dragons of Despair, and the first Dragonlance novel Dragons...
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- 1988
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Pinball Quest
Pinball Quest is the name of a Nintendo Entertainment System video game released in 1990 by Jaleco. The game is based on the popular arcade game pinball. The role playing aspect of the game makes it unique from other sport/game based video games of...
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Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Curse of the Crimson Elixir
Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Curse of the Crimson Elixir (鋼の錬金術師2〜赤きエリクシルの悪魔〜, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Akaki Erikushiru no Akuma, Devil of the Red Elixir in Japan) is the second console role-playing game for the PlayStation 2 based on the series of the...
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- Sep 22, 2004
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Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel
Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel (鋼の錬金術師 翔べない天使, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Tobenai Tenshi, lit. "Alchemist of Steel: The Flightless Angel"), is an action role-playing game developed by Racjin and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation...
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- Dec 25, 2003
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Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade
Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade is a launch title for the Sony PSP handheld video game system and it is a top down perspective action role-playing game in which the player can solve various quests for money and items. Although made by Sony...
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- Mar 24, 2005
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Hero6
Hero6 is a on-line adventure gaming fan community set up with the goal of creating a new generation of 2D adventure games that follow the same style and feel of the popular Quest for Glory series by Sierra. The game developed under the working title...
Circuit's Edge
Circuit's Edge is a computer game developed by Westwood Studios and released by Infocom in 1989. It was based on George Alec Effinger's 1987 novel When Gravity Fails. The game was a hybrid interactive fiction/role-playing game; it contained a window...
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- 1990
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Operation Flashpoint 2
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is a first person tactical military game for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 developed by British game developer Codemasters. Codemasters have advertised the game as a tactical shooter designed to realistically...
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Summoner
Summoner, developed by Volition, Inc. and published by THQ, is a third-person RPG. It was released on October 25, 2000 as a launch title for the PlayStation 2 and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows and Mac OS.
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Tails Adventure
Tails Adventure, known in Japan as Tails Adventures (テイルスアドベンチャー, Teirusu Adobenchā) is a videogame developed by Aspect and distributed by Sega in 1995 for the videogame console Sega Game Gear. It is the first spin-off game of the Sonic series to...
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- Sep 22, 1995
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Dead Rising
Dead Rising is an action-adventure, survival horror video game with RPG elements developed by Capcom and produced by Keiji Inafune. Originally developed as an exclusive title for the Xbox 360 video game console, a Wii console remake was released in...
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GunZ The Duel
GunZ: The Duel (Korean: 건즈 더 듀얼), also known simply as GunZ, is an online third-person shooting game, created by South Korean-based MAIET Entertainment. It is currently free to play, however premium items are available which cost real money. These...
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- Jun 22, 2005
Mario Golf: Advance Tour
Mario Golf: Advance Tour, known in Japan as Mario Golf: GBA Tour (マリオゴルフ ＧＢＡツアー), is an RPG-styled sports game developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance in 2004. The game is the sequel to the Game Boy...
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Sauerbraten
Cube 2: Sauerbraten (also known as Sauer, German for “sour roast”) is a cross-platform, Quake-like first-person shooter that runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X using OpenGL and SDL. The game features single-player and...
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Secret of the Silver Blades
Secret of the Silver Blades is the third in a four-part series of Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons "Gold Box" adventure computer games. The game was released in 1990.
The story is a continuation of the events after Curse of the Azure Bonds.
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