The Worst RPGS of 2023

2023 has already been hailed as one of the greatest gaming years ever. Games of all genres witnessed absolute genius, but in particular, the RPG truly took over. However, for all the greatness we witnessed, there was also a handful of terrible RPGs, whether it was because of rushed development, weak game mechanics, or otherwise

[shinoff2183]

This site seems absolutely horrible on ranking things. This is the second list I've seen from them that is just flatout terrible. Also if redfalls an rpg what isn't an rpg these days.

[isarai]

Like half of these are not even close to being RPGs

[shinoff2183]

That's what i was thinking. People these days are way to loose with the term rpg. I've said it before with some people talking you could label cod, madden, nba2k, etc as rpgs

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

This has been happening for years, people have tried to dilute the term of RPG to "anything where you play a role", which basically makes the genre term useless as everything becomes an RPG, the term just becomes too loose.

I like having strict definitions for genres because it makes it easier for me to tell what kind of game I'm looking at/expecting. It also makes it really hard for me to trust other people when they explain a game to me that I'm not familiar with because I don't know if we're working with the same understandings of a given genre like RPG.

[andy85]

No idea why Ever Crisis is on this list. It's a gacha and does what it says on the tin. I've actually enjoyed it, they've remade a lot of the story moments of FF7 and I've liked watching them again with a graphical difference. And for a gacha you don't even need to spend anything. I'm still playing it months on.

And forspoken shouldn't be on it either. Does a few things very very well. Just lacking in a few more.

[VivaChe]

Daedelic: “we’re making a game about Gollum crawling through a boring mine.”

Gamers: “we don’t want this. Don’t make this game.”

Daedelic: “nah, we’re going to do it anyway.”

(Game releases)

Gamers: …..

Daedelic: “so, we’ve decided we’re going to stop making games.”

[jambola]

Which is a shame
Because as far as I could tell they were a huge part of point and click games for years

[Elda]

I enjoyed playing Forspoken & Atlas Fallen.

[Sonic1881]

Starfield and Forspoken for me

[gold_drake]

i second that

[gold_drake]

i think we need to reevaluate what an RPG is these days.

[MrDead]

Starfield for me as I couldn't finish it thanks to all the progression ending bugs

Looks the Steam sale didn't do well for the games recent reviews, it's sitting at 31% lots of unhappy people getting it for Christmas.