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.
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Nominee Predictions
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Deadline: January 12, 2027
Eligible Games
3471 games are eligible for nomination in this category. Showing the top 60.
Well Dweller
Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter
Valheim
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave
Fields of Mistria
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
Mina the Hollower
Phantom Blade Zero
Mewgenics
Tombwater
Hermit and Pig
Castlevania: Belmont's Curse
Nioh 3
Final Fantasy Resonance
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
Welcome to Elderfield
Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven
Dave the Diver: In the Jungle
Onimusha: Way of the Sword
Esoteric Ebb
Space Haven
Elementallis
Sovereign Tower
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
Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse
Granblue Fantasy: Relink - Endless Ragnarok
Mortal Shell II
Ascend to Zero
World of Warcraft: Midnight
Escape from Ever After
Aether & Iron
Moonlight Peaks
Endless Legend 2
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
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