Unlike its cousins (turn-based RPGs and strategy RPGs), the action never stops with action RPGs. In these games, players can explore vast, immersive worlds at their own pace, but be warned — an enemy won’t simply stop and wait for you to decide your next move.
Whether it’s first-person or third-person, single-player or multiplayer, fantasy-based or set in reality, there’s an action RPG out there for every gamer. Here are the 40 best ones available on the PlayStation 5.
Release Date: 10 Feb 2023 | Platform: PC PS5 Xbox Series X|S(PS4 Xbox One April 4, 2023) Switch (July 25, 2023)Camera: Third PersonMultiplayer: NoCo-op: (Local: No | Online: No)Genre: Open World, RPG, Fantasy, Action RPG
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It’s elementary to say that a title is “something you must play.” But IS IT something you must play?
There’s plenty of controversy around Hogwarts Legacy, but if you are a fan of the franchise and if you are someone who wants to know what it’s like to be in that wizarding world, you must play it.
The title has you being a transfer student into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You’ll customize your character from top to bottom, then send them to classes, duel classmates, fight monsters, and create your desired path.
No other game in the franchise has given you this much freedom and fun. So why not play it?
Release: 2006
The twin goddesses have disappeared, and no one knows why. It’s up to a search party of elite soldiers to find them and return them safely to Solomon Shrine. Now the party is headed to the only place the goddesses could be — the dangerous Devil’s Tower.
Initially a Japanese exclusive that was released worldwide in 2012, Y’s Origin is a platforming RPG with metroidvania elements.
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