Summary
- Some of the best character-driven RPGs of all time include The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt and Disco Elysium - The Final Cut.
- Character writing can make or break an RPG, as the characters help to immerse you into the game's world and story.
RPGs can weave grand tapestries around relatively railroaded plots, or feature a layered, reactive story that molds itself around the decisions a player makes within its world. Whatever your preference, both take on the role-playing genre necessitate strongly written, memorable characters 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:with great story arcs.

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The characters can make or break a script and, in Western RPGs,ꦛ the importance of character development and choice should p🌠lay a huge part in how the story develops when playing through the main quest. This list will recommend some of the best RPGs that have amazing character stories and development.
Updated on July 8, 2024, by Dennis Moiseyev: The gameplay experience for RPGs is only held up by the well-developed characters you interact with and the narrative design. Luckily, there are still plenty of those around from both veteran studios of the genre and indie devs. Here are a few more games with great character stories that we just can't leave out.
12 Pyre
Released |
2017 |
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Developer |
Supergiant Games |
Publisher |
Supergiant Games |
Platform(s) |
PS4, PC |
Though Supergiant is more associated with its standout roguelikes Hades and Hades 2, Pyre is a fantasy RPG offering and one of the most underrated games the studio has developed. In it, you'll be a part of a group of exiles who travel the mystical lands and get involved in competitive matches involving orbs in a game known as Rites.
It's Supergiant, after all, so you know the art direction, hand-drawn environments, character designs, dialogue writing, gameplay, and soundtrack will be as polished and excellent as all the other projects the studio launched. Pyre especially comes with an interesting bunch of characters, who also speak in their own made-up language, known as Sahrian in the game.
11 Cyberpunk 2077 𝓡
- Released
- D𒐪ecember ♎10, 2020
- Developer(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:CD Projekt Red
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:CD Projekt Red
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Cyberpunk 2077 has come a long way as an𒀰 RPG. With all the updates, fixes, and even receiving a huge expansion with the Phantom Liberty DLC, it's a real-life redemption story like none other for a video game. The actual video game story also happens to be pretty well-crafted by the talented quest designers at CD Projekt Red, bringing you 168澳洲幸🌸运5开奖网:a whole slew of uniquely design♌ed characters in a dystopian futuristic open world.

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There have been some amazing Sci-Fi inspired RPGs over the ye🐽ars. Here are some of the best ever made.
You'll be playing as V, and right from the beginning, you have a choice as to💖 what story direction you want to go in for your character. There are many NPCs with stories just as important as V's and are just unforgettable, like Jackie Welles, Johnny Silverhand, Judy Alvarez, Dexter DeShawn, Solomon Reed, Songbird, and Panam Palmer, to name a few.
10 🐓 ﷺ Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
- Released
- ౠ October 15, 2019
- Developer(s)
- ZA/UM
- Publisher(s)
- ZA/UM
- Platform(s)
- PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox One, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series X, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series S, Stadia
The majority of games here will understandably be fantasy and sci-fi RPGs, but, if you're 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:looking for a detective mystery that's also an RPG and has a stellar cast of characters, Disco Elysium is as good as you can get. It's one of those games with an unassuming and unique art style and point-and-click gameplay that totally immerses you with excellent story writing 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:and all-around amazing voice acting.
Every character has something to offer in Disco Elysium's world, especially the main protagonists, Harry Du Bois and Kim Kitsuragi, who have some of the best chemistry of detective partners in a video game ever. Then, you also have the weird and intriguing 'characters' that narrate inside Harry's mind for skill checks, such as Encyclopedia, Inland Empire, and Visual Calculus.
9 God Of War: Ragnaro♊k 🅺
- Released
- 𓄧 𒀰 November 9, 2022
- Developer(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Santa Monica Studio
- Publisher(s)
- Sony
- Platform(s)
- PC, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 4, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 5
God of War: Ragnarok came back with a much more detailed and character-focused story than the 2018 game. You have very major developments in Kratos' and Atreus' journey, the former getting flashbacks from his marriage with Laufey and struggling with his parenting, and the latter breaking ties and going off on his own journey to Jotunheim with Angrboda and then Asgard with Odin.
Meanwhile, you also have the emotional stories of Freya and her brother, Thor and his family, as well as the dwarf blacksmith brothers Sindri and Brok. Even Norse Gods Tyr and Surtr and Atreus' pet wolf Fenrir come with surprising twists you're sure to be gripped by.
8 Divinity: Origina🐓l Sin 2 🅠
- Released
- �𒐪� September 14, 2017
- Developer(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Larian Studios
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Larian Studios
Divinity: Original Sin 2 stands as one of the most impressive achievements in gaming. It's a game developed by an independent studio that has more depth, freedom, and complexity than most triple-A games. The world reacts accordingly to the decisions you make in the game, with characters changing and evolving in ways that are different every time. It takes us back to the time when isome𒀰tric RPGs focused on their characters and stories instead of trying to look like a Hollywood ꦐblockbuster.

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You can customize and create your characters before starting the game and build your warrior or mage from scratch. Or there is a selection of premade characters in the game to choose from with their own interesting backstories. However, it's the way the characters can change and evolve based on decisions you make that makes the character development in Divinity Original Sin 2 so good.
7 Dragon Age Origins ༺
Dragon Age: Origins
- Released
- November 3, 2009 🌜
- Developer(s)
- BioWare
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Electronic Arts
After leaving Dungeons & Dragons behind following the epic Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn, BioWare moved on to create a new fantasy RPG series with Dragon Age. Coming from such a character-driven series as Baldur's Gate, the studio༒ already knew how to build and develop a good cast oꦜf characters to keep players invested.
Dragon Age: Origins offers a good selection of characters to choose from, each with their motivations and origin stories. The overarching story of Dragon Age is excellent and the world-building is superb, but it's the characters that make players return to this epic over and over again despite its age.
6 Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic 𒊎
- Released
- 🥃 ꦏ July 15, 2003
- Developer(s)
- BioWare
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:LucasArts
- Platform(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox (Original), iOS, Android, Switch, PC, macOS
Over 20 years later, Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic is still heralded as the greatest Star Wars game of all time. Coming out around the same time as the prequel trilogy, Star Wars fans often felt that outside of the original movies, Knights had a better script and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:more involved character development. And it still holds up well by today's standards, as seen with its Switch port.
Knight of the Old Republic is set 4,000 years before the events of the movies and features The Sith as a gigantic armada of dark warriors instead of being restricted to two, aౠs in the films. The story is outstanding, but the character interactions and alliances formed based on your decisions set KotR apart from many other RPGs. There is an epic twist that surrounds the lead character, in addition to betrayals and friendships that depend on the decisions that you make during the adventure.
5 The Mass Effect Trilogy 𒅌 💯
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition
- Released
- ﷽ May 14, 2021
- Developer(s)
- BioWare
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Electronic Arts
With the exception of the Xenosaga Trilogy on PS2, there weren't many games that offered epic science fiction space opera RPGs for gamers to sink their teeth into. However, BioWare's Mass Effect saga more than filled that void back in 2007. Viewed as something of a spiritual successor to BioWare's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect is more sci-fi than fantasy. However, the lore and world-building created by the developer can capture the imagination in a way that rivals any franchise.

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Part of what makes the Mass Effect series so good is the supporting cast of characters. Of course, Shepard is a fantastic protagonist. But the character interactions and alliances forged in the game are what make the series so great. Even the flawed but underrated Mass Effect: Andromeda had an excellent cast of characters that carried the story. It's the original trilogy, however, that stands as one of the best character-driven RPGs of all time.
4 The Witcher 2: Assassins Of K෴ings
The Witcher 2
- Released
- May 17, 🧸2011
- Developer(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:CD Projekt Red
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:CD Projekt Red
It was The Witcher 3 that made the series a hit with mainstream fans. And as amazing as the sequel is, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings holds up well in so many areas. It set a benchmark for video game adaptations by bringing the characters from Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher novels to life.
Geralt is iconic as a protagonist, but it's the supporting cast being just as well-developed as Geralt that brings the game to life. It's not an open-world game like the sequel, but each town and location feels lived in thanks to the depth of the NPCs and their backstories. Every character that Geralt encounters feels important to its world and how the protagonist develops as a character. It's over ten years old and still looks beautiful by today's standards. But like any other medium, a great story with brilliant characters transcends its age.
3 Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows Of Amn
Released |
2000 |
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Developer |
BioWare |
Publisher |
Black Isle Studios |
Platform(s) |
Android, iPad, iPhone, Linux🌊, OS X, PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One. Also, backward compatible with PS5 and Xbox Series X/S |
Before achieving major success with Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic and Mass Effect, BioWare was making its mark with the Baldur's Gate series. Set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, Baldur's Gate offers the kind of tabletop RPG freedom that's only been matched by Larian's Divinity: Original Sin 2.

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The first Baldur's Gate holds up extremely well. But its more polished sequel, Shadows of Amn, takes everything from the story to its character development several steps further. The ways that the characters and world develop around you based on the decisions you make is only matched by Original Sin — a title that launched 16 years later. It has an amazing cast of memorable characters, and there are alliances, betrayals, and disagreements that will arise based on your decisions. Baldur's Gate 2 is an old-school RPG, but the design and writing are timeless.