Role-Playing Game of the Year
This award honors a title, single-player or multi-player, where an individual assumes the role of one or more characters and develops those characters in terms of abilities, statistics, and/or traits as the game progresses. Gameplay involves exploring, acquiring resources, solving puzzles, and interacting with player or non-player characters in a persistent world. Through the player’s actions, his/her virtual characters’ statistics or traits demonstrably evolve throughout the game.
Current Phase
Nominee Predictions
Predict which games will be nominated in this category. You can select up to 6 games from the eligible pool.
Deadline: January 12, 2027
Eligible Games
3121 games are eligible for nomination in this category. Showing the top 60.
Well Dweller
Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter
Mina the Hollower
Valheim
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave
Fields of Mistria
Mewgenics
Tombwater
Hermit and Pig
Nioh 3
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
Welcome to Elderfield
Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven
Dave the Diver: In the Jungle
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
Onimusha: Way of the Sword
Esoteric Ebb
Sovereign Tower
Elementallis
Space Haven
Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred
Dead In Antares
The Blood of Dawnwalker
Control Resonant
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies
Dragon Quest VII Reimagined
Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth
Granblue Fantasy: Relink - Endless Ragnarok
Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse
Mortal Shell II
Ascend to Zero
World of Warcraft: Midnight
Escape from Ever After
Aether & Iron
Moonlight Peaks
HellSlave II: Judgment of the Archon
Wardrum
Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault
Grime II
Rubinite
Lovish
Pathologic 3
Fishbowl
Terrinoth: Heroes of Descent
High Times
Palworld
Yet Another Zombie Survivors
Aniimo
Arknights: Endfield
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales
Duskfade
Inkonbini: One Store. Many Stories
Voidling Bound
Under the Island
DragonSword: Awakening
People of Note
RuneScape: Dragonwilds
Doloc Town
LumenTale: Memories of Trey
Tales of Berseria Remastered
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