The Best Single Player PC RPG Games of the Last 10-ish Years

[dirtyferret]

With the best Single Player FPS games poll doing so well and with clear winners in Doom, Metro, Bioshock, and Wolfenstein I've decided to make my best PC single player RPG poll. You can vote for as many games as you like.

A few caveats;
* I can only list ten choices (which makes it fun and difficult to narrow down)
*Games & expansions by the same developer between 2008-2018 are used for the list and count as one game. So DA and NW2 count with their expansions but mods and different developer expansions don't count (KOTOR 2 restore mod and Beamdog's BA Siege expansion).
*The list is my personal opinion along with other lists on sites like PC Gamer, along with Meta-critic Professional and fan reviews.
*A few favorites like Fallout 3 & 4, Alpha Protocol, lost out to better versions in their series, mixed reviews, or better offerings from their developer.
*No MMORPGs; so no WoW, Guild Wars, ESO, etc.,

Enjoy, discuss, rant about missing games, and maybe you will find a game you haven't played but will enjoy down the line.

 

[Vayra86]

My top 3 is represented. Sweet!

(Divinity OS2, ME2 and TW3)

 

[GoldenX]

RPCS3.

 

[rtwjunkie]

The Witcher 3, FNV/ME2and Skyrim are my top 3 on the list (TW3 would be there list or no list), and for me ME2 and FNV are tied.

To spur some conversation, several other games are completely worthy of the list. I will name the very underrated Alpha Protocol.

 

[dirtyferret]

The Witcher 3, FNV/ME2and Skyrim are my top 3 on the list

Is that a NOLA triple?

 

[rtwjunkie]

Is that a NOLA triple?

I couldn’t decide.

 

[cucker tarlson]

500 hrs of tw3,not bored for a second
HoS was the best storyline I ever played.

 

[Vayra86]

In all fairness ME2 has a unique quality to it that I haven't seen in ANY RPG elsewhere. The game isn't really an RPG in the mechanics-side of things, its more or less just a samey third person actiongame with some stuff to unlock and progress. But there is no real stat game or anything, not even 'a thin one' like The Witcher 3 has it. ME2's strength is its cast, narrative, voicing and setting. And what makes that so incredibly strong to me, is the fact that you spend the whole game actually putting together that same cast of awesome characters. And again, its not even their specialty or abilities that matter because the game is super easy, but rather just their presence on your ship, and in your missions. Their oneliners and their flavor text, and the dilemma's they present.

Definitely one for the books. If you put the scope of ME2 in perspective of the whole trilogy its probably the least interesting entry in the trilogy, but when you judge it as a game on its own, even though it entirely picks up from part 1, it becomes a masterpiece.

 

[xkm1948]

My pick is not there: NieR Automata

 

[The N]

Only Skyrim V that I played. So I guess it is the one.

 

[dirtyferret]

In all fairness ME2 has a unique quality to it that I haven't seen in ANY RPG elsewhere.

It's a sci-fi version of the dirty dozen (or filthy 13 if you prefer the book). What sticks out to me is Bioware finally dropped the whole specter thing. They had been banging the drum of a special soldier since they got to play with Jedis in KOTOR. Mist monks, Wardens, Spectors, their beginning stories started to all be the same. ME2 hits the ground running and doesn't stop until the end.

 

[AsRock]

My top 3 is represented. Sweet!

(Divinity OS2, ME2 and TW3)

No love for Divinity OS1 ?. AI is much better in the 1st one.

Kinda loved ME but they seemed to improve some thing and mess up some thing else that was good in one of the other(s).

 

[Deleted member 158293]

First Pillars, then DA:O, then Fallout for me.

Pillars was the best classic RPG I've played in many, many years.

 

[biffzinker]

Pillars was the best classic RPG I've played in many, many years.

I should get back to playing it, got distracted playing another game.

 

[Rahnak]

Oof.. This is a tough category. My top 3 from the list are The Witcher 3, Divinity Original Sin 2 and Mass Effect 2. Very honorable mention to Skyrim for being the single player game I dumped the most hours into. But it's very similar and inferior to TW3.

 

[biffzinker]

But it's very similar and inferior to TW3.

Skyrim most certainly doesn't measure up to TW3 but that's stating the obvious.

I must of played a different version of Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon Age: Inquisition because it didn't do anything for me.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I voted for the 4 highest, got good taste i guess

 

[64K]

I'm probably going to catch some flack for saying this but Skyrim was overrated. The best ES game was Morrowind and a close runner up was Oblivion.

Yes, I know neither were in the list.

 

[Rahnak]

Skyrim most certainly doesn't measure up to TW3 but that's stating the obvious.

I must of played a different version of Dragon Age: Origins because it didn't do anything for me.

Yep, honorable mention for being my most played.

I enjoyed the story and characters of DA:O the most. Combat was good too. The next games in the series were disappointing though.

 

[biffzinker]

I enjoyed the story and characters of DA:O the most. Combat was good too. The next games in the series were disappointing though.

I had the wrong Dragon Age game in mind it was Dragon Age: Inquisition I didn't like.

 

[Rahnak]

I'm probably going to catch some flack for saying this but Skyrim was overrated. The best ES game was Morrowind and a close runner up was Oblivion.

I know you're not alone in that. Personally I didn't like Oblivion. Morrowind I didn't really play enough to have an opinion. I thought about getting the recent freebie from Bethesda, but it's an old game and I've already have a lot to play as it is.

I had the wrong Dragon Age game in mind it was Dragon Age: Inquisition I didn't like.

Yeah, not a big fan of that one either. It was only alright.

 

[64K]

I had the wrong Dragon Age game in mind it was Dragon Age: Inquisition I didn't like.

Every Dragon Age game just keep getting worse after Origins.

 

[TheOne]

TW3, ME2&3, FONV, DA:O.

 

[moproblems99]

Wow, Skyrim was trash compared to TW3. It wasn't even better than Morrowind that came 8 years before it.

 

[GoldenX]

The problem I have with TW3 is the hand holding. The game marks the way all the time, almost makes it a lineal game.

Another silent vote for Nier Automata.