The dark fantasy setting is quite popular among fans of RPG games. Worlds destroyed by magical cataclysms are often very similar to the post-nuclear world of Fallout. So today, I decided to list the best dark fantasy RPG games. Let’s get right into it!
Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen
Genres: RPG, Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows
The battles of Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen unfold in a vast open world. Players embark on an epic adventure through the world of dark fantasy with three AI companions – “pawns.” The “pawns” fight independently, gaining experience and developing combat skills. Players can publish their “pawns,” receiving values, advice, and strategic techniques to fight the monsters in exchange. Pawns can also be helpful when special skills are needed to overcome specific difficulties.
Forspoken
Genres: Action RPG, Adventure Action, Platformer, Fighting, Shooter, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 5, Microsoft Windows
After mysteriously leaving New York City, Frey Holland finds himself in a strange land called Atia. Frey unexpectedly discovers a magical jewel on his arm, endowed with the gift of speech, and also discovers that he has a magical gift that can be used to travel the vastness of Atia. Officially christening his new metal friend a bracelet, Frey sets off hoping to find his way home.
Frey soon discovers that at one time, this beautiful country thrived under the merciful Tant rulers but was then ruthlessly mutilated by some evil force. A mist came that turned ordinary animals into bloodthirsty creatures, people into monsters, and generous lands into dangerous and treacherous ones. And the very tantas still rule each of their lands-but now they have become mad and wicked witches.
The fog has no effect on Frey, and desperate for answers to her questions, she reluctantly agrees to help the last remaining inhabitants of Atia, who see the only hope for the future in her. In these alien and treacherous lands, Frey must plunge into the abysses of filth, fight terrifying creatures, challenge the Tantas themselves, and learn the truth, which will give her far more than she had hoped for.
Vampyr
Genres: Action RPG, Adventure video game, Fighting
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
Vampyr is a single-player dark fantasy role-playing game developed by the French studio Dontnod Entertainment.
The game is set in London in 1918, shortly after World War I and during the “Spanish” flu pandemic. Your name is Jonathan Reed, and you have recently become a vampire. As a doctor, you must find a cure for a terrible epidemic. And as a vampire, you are forced to feed on those you have sworn to cure. Reed initially has no idea who turned him into a vampire, and the customs and etiquette of these creatures are unfamiliar to him. He studies vampires like rational doctor with a scientific mind. Dr. Swansea, the head of the hospital where the protagonist works, knows that his subordinate is a vampire but has no intention of turning him over to vampire hunters.
Wartales
Genres: RPG, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platform: Microsoft Windows
A hundred years have passed since the fall of the once great Edoran Empire due to an unimaginable plague that drained the state. In the ensuing chaos, mercenaries, bandits, and robbers thrive across the land – the concept of honor is a thing of the distant past.
You will lead a squad of unscrupulous mercenaries through an open world where combat, death, and greed define your daily life. This is a completely ordinary unit: there are no heroes born once in a millennium to save mankind. Your task is to survive and succeed in a hostile, harsh world. Only the bravest and most determined will have their stories immortalized in the pages of Wartales!
Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor
Genres: Role-playing action, Adventure action game
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Mac OS
The story of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor begins with the main character, a Gondor ranger named Talion, being killed along with his son and wife, sacrificed to the dark forces. Despite his slit throat, Talion soon regains consciousness, realizing that he failed in dying. Life left his body, but death refused to accept his soul, setting him in opposition to another entity, an elf named Kelebrymbor. Talion was a great warrior when he was alive, and now he’s a killing machine – a sword and dagger that never misses, a trusty bow, and ghostly eyesight to see through walls. He cannot die – having fallen in battle, he will be reborn after a while.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Genres: Simulator, Indie game, Simulation, Strategy
Platform: Microsoft Windows
Not an ordinary game for this list, “Judgment Apocalypse” is a tactical RPG with the ability to build a base in which you will lead a group of survivors during the apocalypse. The apocalypse here is the real thing. The game takes place during the devilish cataclysm. Hell gates are open and spewing forth armies of merciless demons – but you can win! Survive by gathering resources, crafting equipment, defending your base, sending survivors to search for valuable items, researching technology, and practicing black magic to find a way to send the demons back to hell.
Dragon Age: Origins
Genre: RPG
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
You are the Grey Guardian, one of the last warriors of the ancient order of defenders. The ancient enemy of mankind has returned, the kingdom is in the grip of war, and fate has chosen you to unite the disparate lands and destroy the Archdemon forever.
Travel through a fascinating world, freely explore and fully immerse yourself in a sprawling world on the brink of extinction. Enjoy an elaborate, epic storyline that responds to your playing style.
Choose your method of immersion. In Dragon Age: Origins, you can choose from six backstories. In complex situations such as murder, genocide, betrayal, and child possession, you will have to make your own decisions.
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Darkest Dungeon
Genre: RPG, dungeon crawler
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4, iOS, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging turn-based dark fantasy roguelike game with a gothic atmosphere in which the adventures of the characters affect their mental health.
You will have to assemble, train and lead a team of heroes, all of whom have their own flaws. The team will have to be led through eerie forests, desolate nature reserves, collapsed crypts, and other dangerous places. You will have to fight not only with unthinkable enemies but also with stress, hunger, disease, and impenetrable darkness. Unlock strange secrets and send your heroes into battle against fearsome monsters with the new turn-based strategic combat system.
Styx: Shards Of Darkness
Genres: Stealth, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
Explore and master huge open environments, sneak past or assassinate new enemies and bosses, and experiment with the new array of lethal abilities and weapons in our goblin assassin’s arsenal.
Sneak your way alone or with a friend in coop mode! Climb the dizzying Elven city, traverse the perilous territory of the Dwarfs, and survive vast unexplored lands filled with lethal dangers to fulfill your mission… failure to succeed could have huge consequences for your kin.
Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines
Genres: RPG, Shooter, Fighting
Platform: Microsoft Windows
The game immerses players in the dark and brutal underworld of modern Los Angeles, owned by the terrifying creatures of darkness, the vampires. Players will have to develop their character’s abilities, interact with other characters and complete story missions, and face off in a deadly battle against other vampires with an incredible array of vampire abilities and weapons. The game is built on Valve Source technology and is based on White Wolf’s popular tabletop RPG series, Vampire: The Masquerade and its official clans.
Grim Dawn
Genres: Hack and slash, Indie games, Open world, Linear, Adventure
Platforms: Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
Grim Dawn is a dark fantasy RPG that the developers affectionately call “the spiritual successor to Titan Quest and a proud Diablo clone. On the surface, everything looks very much in the style of the ancient Greek Titan Quest. Grim Dawn also gravitates more toward fantasy and the “Victorian” era. The other attributes are in place – 200 levels, a sprawling system of crafting, loot falling out of the defeated creatures, quests, and multiplayer.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Genres: Open World, Action RPG, Action-Adventure, Fighting
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Microsoft Windows
The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt is a story-driven open-world role-playing game. You’ll find yourself in a magical dark fantasy universe where any decision you make can have serious consequences. Play as the professional monster hunter Geralt of Rivia. Geralt needs to find the Child of Destiny in a vast world full of trading cities, pirate islands, dangerous mountain passes, and abandoned caves.
Witchers have been preparing to fight monsters since childhood. Through mutations and diligent training, witchers gain superhuman abilities, strength, and reaction speed. Only they can fight back the monsters that are no rarity in their world.
Have no mercy and slay your enemies using an arsenal of upgradeable weapons, mutagenic potions, and combat spells at your disposal.
Hunt the most diverse monsters, from wild highland creatures to cunning creatures that lurk in the dark alleys of large cities. Use your money to upgrade your weapons, buy unprecedented armor, or blow it all on horse races, games, fistfights, and other pleasant entertainment.
