Over the years, Roblox has expanded its RPG offerings and become increasingly expansive in terms of what’s actually available, showcasing the platform’s real development capabilities. Whether they offer rich combat systems or immersive world exploration features, these are the best Roblox RPGs available now on the platform.
10. Sword Blox Online: Rebirth
Offering a more traditional MMORPG-style experience, Sword Blox Online: Rebirth focuses on classic dungeon crawling and character progression. There are multiple weapon types each offering distinct combat styles, gameplay, and ability sets. Social interaction and party play are encouraged via more challenging dungeon content that actually requires coordination from all players involved.
Also, Sword Blox Online: Rebirth maintains and relies on an active player-to-player trading system, creating valuable equipment and materials through a player economy. Players can develop their characters through both combat prowess and via crafting abilities, which creates a pretty well-rounded online RPG experience.
9. Wings of Fire
Inspired by the popular series of novels with the same name, Wings of Fire allows players to take on the role of various different dragons from unique tribes. Each tribe has abilities that align with their lore from the book series as well. For example, RainWings are able to camouflage themselves while SeaWings excel in aquatic biomes. Wings of Fire offers both PvE and PvP elements of gameplay.
The world of Wings of Fire is divided into different territories that also match the series’ settings, with each area offering its own distinct challenges and resources. Players can form groups with other dragons as well as alliances that creates social dynamics mirroring the heavy political intrigue from the book series.
8. Northwind
Set in a colonial frontier environment, Northwind combines survival mechanics with RPG progression to create a rather unique colonial experience. Players can choose from a variety of different professions including hunting, trading, and crafting, each offering unique gameplay paths but also ways to grow and flourish in the RPG. Northwind also features a winter setting that creates additional survival challenges that players must traverse while adapting to the colonial setting.
The economy in Northwind is largely player-driven, featuring mostly player-crafted items and resources that must be traded amongst other players rather than relying solely on self-found items. The game environment also hosts various settlements where players create their own sort of hubs to trade and interact, creating a true colonial setting.
7. Treasure Quest
Treasure Quest is a more traditional dungeon-crawling RPG that focuses more on cooperative gameplay and loot progression than world exploration. Players can choose from a variety of different classes for their character, each with unique abilities to complement specific team compositions when delving deep into the dungeons. With random generation, each dungeon delving experience ensures run variety creating an almost roguelike RPG experience.
The full Treasure Quest experience also features a robust trading system for players to exchange equipment found deep in their delves. With varying types of equipment and deep classes, various compositions of teams can tackle the unique dungeons with their own approach, creating a deeply social RPG.
6. Dinosaur Simulator
Offering a very unique RPG experience, Dinosaur Simulator allows players to simulate the life of various dinosaur species. Each species of dinosaur has unique abilities and entire playstyles as you live the life of that dinosaur, including powerful T Rexes and more fast-action Velociraptors. Regardless of which dinosaur you choose, you’ll start as a juvenile dino and must survive to reach adulthood and become stronger.
Dinosaur Simulator features various different biomes that suits each of the dinosaur species, encouraging players to find their own niche in each ecosystem and biomes. Depending on which dinosaur you choose, you’ll have to seek out the right biome for you to flourish, teaming up with other players to form dinosaur packs and increase your chances of survival.
Legends Re:Written is an action RPG with anime-inspired combat mechanics and character customization, giving players the opportunity to live out their anime dreams in an RPG setting. Legends Re:Written features various fighting styles and ability combos that players can master to truly become anime legends as the name suggests. Combat throughout all forms of progression emphasizes combination chains and skill timing in both PvE and PvP combat.
As such, players can participate in both solo and group content to level, with certain challenges being offered exclusively for team-based play. Paired with the unique character progression system, Legends Re:Written provides a robust anime-themed RPG experience for solo and social players.
4. Slime Slaying Simulator
A progression-focused RPG about hunting increasingly powerful slimes as the name suggests, Slime Slaying Simulator features various weapons and equipment that players can collect and upgrade to amplify their slime massacring. Different areas feature unique slime types with their own strengths, weaknesses, attack patterns, and of course drops, allowing you to farm areas for specific resources and items.
Character development in Slime Slaying Simulator includes both equipment progression and character-based skill improvements. Along the way, players can trade items and resources with each other through Slime Slaying Simulator’s in-game marketplace system.
3. Creatures of Sonaria
Creatures of Sonaria is essentially a monster-collecting RPG where the player takes on the role of the creature itself, trying to survive in a brutal world of other creatures in the world of Sonaria. Players will unlock and have the ability to play as other creatures as they progress, similar to Dinosaur Simulator, allowing players to grow from child to adult as each creature.
With over 350 creatures in total across Creatures of Sonaria, there is a lot of variability in terms of look, playability, and features for players to uncover between all the creatures. With a robust player-to-player marketplace, each creature also maintains its own value for players to trade with each other and try out new setups.
2. Pilgrammed: The Raindrops
In short, Pilgrammed is a long-running deep open-world RPG with deep armor and weapon crafting. Pilgrammed is a massively expansive world with plenty to explore and tons of secrets to uncover. There are a variety of playstyles including melee weapons like swords and spears, ranged options like bows and guns, or even magic casting via spells like a mage in more traditional RPGs.
As players become stronger in Pilgrammed they will be able to take on stronger boss enemies with their own unique skillsets and strategies. Taking down these bosses will give access to exclusive weapons, armor, and resources that can allow players to get even more powerful regardless of their playstyle.
1. Deepwoken
Taking the top slot on our best RPG list for Roblox has to be the immersive RPG Deepwoken. At its core, Deepwoken is a massive online RPG with a very unique mechanic: permadeath. This is an RPG that doesn’t hold your hand despite being on a platform like Roblox, and many have compared it to more hardcore RPGs like the Dark Souls and Sekiro series’.
While it can be difficult, it’s an extremely rewarding RPG that utilizes a talent card system for players to create diverse character builds. Deepwoken also features rich lore that rewards players in both story, and loot, for going off the beaten path and exploring what the world has to offer. Paired with its permadeath system, Deepwoken offers a very unique but rich gameplay experience hard to find on Roblox.
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