Free, Downloadable RPG Games

Rappelz, Free downloadable MMORPG Game

Rappelz is an awesome downloadable MMO RPG, and what make it even better is that it’s 100% free! You can try it by downloading it here, and if it’s not your thing move on to something else. However be warned! Rappelz is addictive, so much so that hundreds of people have even made their own Rappelz fansites!

Fantasy PC RPG games published since 2005 or about to be released

Avatar : Ubisoft game based heavily on the James Cameron movie. Mostly action …very simple.

Evony: Age II

Divinity 2: Ego Draconis

Sequel to Beyond Divinity and Divine Divinity. Ride , fight or be a dragon in the world of Rivellon.

Dragon Age: Origins

To be released 2009 by Bioware,  play a Grey Warden and fight the blight.

Dungeon Hero

Set in a huge Dungeon made by goblins, this is a Dungeon like all other Rpg games should have.

Avernum 4, Avernum 5

Tile based adventure game. Huge.

Avernum 6

Aveyond, Aveyond 2, Aveyond 3: Lord of Twilight

Start as a street Urchin, watch out for vampires!

Avencast: Rise of the Mage

Beautiful game with incredibly original monsters like demon maggots.

Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One and Two

Rise of the Argonauts

Based on Jason and the Golden Fleece, set in a time of heroes and gods. Soon to be released

Neverwinter Nights 2 , Mask of the Betrayer, Storm of Zehir

Based on PnP D&D 3.5, this is the ultimate Rpg Game. Many races and classes.

Sacred 2: Fallen Angel

Cartoon style fantasy with awesome detailed world and great races to play.

Space Siege

Blast your way through hordes of space monsters.

Laxius Force

Simple tile based adventure game along classic lines.

Two Worlds: The Temptation

Rehash of standard RPG, beautiful world, nice character options, dull monsters.

Lightning Warrior Raidy

Soft porn RPG, nude girls to be ‘rescued’ (sex)  and naked warriors fought against. Cartoon.

RPG Tsukuru VX

Eschalon: Book I

Nice turn based tile adventure Rpg game along lines of old classics.

The Lord of the Rings: The White Council

Drakensang: The Dark Eye

Very nice medieval classic fantasy adventure RPG. Sticks to the basics, does them well.

Castle

Talisman

Project that never materialised.

The Witcher

Voted best game 2008 by IGN. Polish awesome! Nasty Vampiric monsters. Great single-player only story.

Hard to be a God

Late medieval intelligence officer for an Emperor.

Dawn of Magic

OTT Russian made game, bright colourful and surely weird. Play mage apprentices.

Heroes of Might & Magic V: Tribes of the East

Cartoony WOW styled action RPG with knights on horses etc.

Call for Heroes: Pompolic Wars

Fight Demon Hordes from another dimension in high heeled Boots.

The Elder Scrolls IV: The Shivering Isles, Knights of the Nine, Oblivion,

Elveon

release of Elveon won’t be until the second quarter of 2009

Silverfall

Silverfall is an action RPG with a stress on tactical fighting

Geneforge 4: Rebellion

Shareware game where you play Rebels against the Shaper army.

Jade Empire: Special Edition

Martial arts action-rpg from Bioware.

The Fifth Disciple

Interesting adventure fantasy from Czech Republic

Gothic III

Mediaeval plus dinosaurs, awesome realistic ramshackle buildings.

Age of Pirates

Rpg using the STORM Engine 2.5, play either Blaze or Beatrice Sharp and pirate in the Caribbean.

Two Worlds

Nwn and WOW mix of fantasy Rpg.

Dungeon Siege II: Broken World

Expansion pack, classic fantasy action/Rpg, destroy the Dark Wizard and his mages.

Neverwinter Nights Character

NeverEnd

Players assume the role of Agavaen, an ancient fairy with magical powers.

DragonFable

DragonFable is a fabulous free browser-based flash 2d animated fantasy RPG.

SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars

WOW type dragons and titans RTS/RPG mix of fantasy. Control heroes and armies.

Seal of Evil

Set in the twilight years of the Warring States period of Chinese history (476 – 206 BC)

Unique graphics engine blends 2d and 3d for fast play

Barnyard

Playstation 2 game, but i just had to include it

Khan: The Absolute Power

Mage Knight Apocalypse

Fantasy Sci-fi mix along lines of Warhammer

Fable: The Lost Chapters

Play orphaned boy in Albion. Top selling game with Monty Python sense humour.

RPG Maker XP

Fun simple tool for building your own tile based adventures.

Dungeon Siege II

Classic fantasy action/Rpg, destroy the Dark Wizard and his mages.

Sacred Gold

Popular but silly Diablo clone.

Sacred: Underworld

Fate

Blood Magic

Kult: Heretic Kingdoms

Battle Mages: Sign Of Darkness

Sci-fi PC RPG games released since 2003

Alpha Protocol

Fallout 3

Mass Effect

Mass Effect 2 – Kasumi – Stolen Memory

Din’s Curse

Dragon Age: Origins Awakening

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

Hellgate: London

Star Wolves , Star Wolves 2

Disney’s Meet the Robinsons

Space Hack

X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse

Neuro Hunter

Metalheart: Replicants Rampage

Restricted Area

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic , Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II

COPS 2170: The Power of Law

Deus Ex 2: Invisible War

Duality

Paradise Cracked

Massively Multi-player PC RPG games released since 2006

Supreme Destiny – India

Guild Wars 2

DC Universe Online

Champions Online

The Chronicles of Spellborn

The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria, Shadows of Angmar

EverQuest: Seeds of Destruction, Prophecy of Ro

Everquest II: The Shadow Odyssey, Rise of Kunark, Echoes of Faydwer, Kingdom of Sky, Sentinals fate

Wonderking

Spirit Hearted Deluxe

Divinity II: Ego Draconis

World of WarCraft: Wrath of The Lich King, The Burning Crusade

LEGO Universe

Star Trek Online

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

La Tale Online

WindSlayer

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

Aion: The Tower of Eternity

Saga

CABAL Online

The Agency

Mabinogi

Pirates of the Burning Sea

Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus

Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess, Treasures of Aht Urhgan

Fiesta

Shenmue Online

Pirates of the Caribbean Online

Fury

MechQuest

NosTale

Guild Wars: Eye of the North

Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn

Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds

Lunia: Record of Lunia war

Metin2

Sword of the New World: Granado Espada

Wakfu

Dungeon Runners

9 Dragons

Titan Quest: Immortal Throne

Corum Online

Rappelz

All Points Bulletin

Ghost Online

Voyage Century

Last Chaos

Stargate Worlds

Guild Wars: Nightfall

Phantasy Star Universe

Infinity Online

Trickster Online

Imperator

Archlord

Hero Online

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

Titan Quest

Space Cowboy

The Legend of Ares

Eudemons Online

EVE Online: Revelations, The Path to Kali

One of the best er online game expeirences

Guild Wars: Factions

Goonzu Online

Station Access Collection

Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach

Crude approximation of the classic PnP D&D role playing game.

RF Online

Ragnarok Online 2

A game aimed at a younger teenager with cartoony ‘toons’. …

“After the long and gruesome war between God, Humans, and Demons…
Scarred during the dangerous moments in battle, and avoiding total destruction altogether, the Humans, God and Demons entered a long truce….”

Tabula Rasa

Well I hope we haven’t left any important games off this list of pc role playing games, and we will keep updating it as new games are released. Please send us any reviews of the above games to help us correct any oversights.

Here is an example of adventuring for just experience versus adventuring for a storyline reason. This is an example of how two different parties going into the same cave can behave very differently. The latter is preferable if the aim is to develop plot lines and get the attention of DM’s for better game play and surprises. The former is for those who wish to speed along and bash some creatures and gain experience in an easy and casual fashion rather then role play which can be very time consuming and much harder. Imagine these parties have discovered a clue that something might be happening in the cave.

A) ACTION style of play

Grimbum:                  “Hey! Lets go bash some orcs. I’m almost leveled!
Astrid Slaver:           “Cool! I hear there might be a DM event going on….

…something about magic scrolls.”
Grimbum:                  “Ohh..good…maybe there will be DM giving out items.
Astrid Slaver:            “Yea..lets do it…Those vile creature gotta die!”..///brb going for a piss

[party enters cave and runs from cavern to cavern slaying things, with no spoken interaction]

Grimbum:                             “woooot 150 points to level! let’s get the boss!’
Flemenger the Orange:    “Ok…let me rest first. Outta spells “
Flemenger the Orange:     “hang on, buffing”
Astrid Slaver:                       “We better go soon..im overloaded, lets cash in loot”.
Grimbum:                              “Cool..I gotta log soon anyways.”

B) ROLE PLAY orientated style of play

Celia the Wild:                   *Face darkens with concern*  “Do we really have to go in here?….

………… I don’t like the look of this!”

Ernst Longflint:               “I’m afraid so..The town guards said the orcs had raided the Mages’

Tower in the woods…always a reason for concern.”

Celia the Wild:                 *pulls at her hair nervously*

“Perhaps we should gather reinforcements?”

Ernst Longflint:               *Gives her a  smile*    ” No we can do it….

….stay behind me and keep your eyes peeled”

Celia the Wild:                  *walks cautiously behind him drawing sword*

Ernst Longflint:                *Whispers*        “Shh… Something ahead… sounds like wolves..”

(rolls tracking skill)

[later after leaving the cave]

Ernst Longflint:                   “Well I am exhausted, time for a nap in this bush” *yawns*

Celia the Wild:                        “try not to snore, Orcs will hear you” *laughs*   “I am heading to town”

Ernst Longflint:                     *waves* “see you in a few days friend” [logs off the server]

These are just two differnt play styles, one is not superior to the other, but if you do seek a persistant world where Role Playing is emphasized and in fact rewarded by the DM’s then it is the second example that you should strive for as you play your role playing PC games, but most importantly have fun and use your role playing to help others have fun too, this is especially important if you are making use of a free online server.

This game is a wonderful place for fans of Lord of the Rings so long as you don’t mind polluting the wonderful world Tolkien created with a Dungeons and Dragons/World of Warcraft aesthetic and can cope with variations to the actual flavor of the original book. That said if you can distance yourself from actual Middle Earth, and see this as a separate but similar place, this is one of the most enjoyable online massive multi-player role play universes to explore. The first release Shadows of Angmar contains twelve epic quests called ‘Books’, and with each expansion or update more Books are added. Thus the recently released Mines of Moria which has received awards for best PC Game expansion, contains two new Books or quests with another five expected in updates.

With less races than similar games, only having Elf, Dwarf, Human and Hobbit, and a standard range of classes albeit with less emphasis on magic classes; Burglar, Captain, Champion, Guardian, Hunter, Lore-master, and Minstrel. (the expansion Mines of Moria adds Rune-Keeper and Warden). LOTRO relies on a less intricate and quite original character development system than traditional DnD type role playing PC games, to bring variety and individuality to this role playing PC game and a texture which is more Tolkienesque. In some ways the game is a simplification of the kind of traditional skills and feats systems as found in DnD and a game like Neverwinter Nights, but within the simplicity there emerges a great variety of less structured options.

Having chosen a class, players then develop a vocation, where each vocation incorporates three professions. For example if you are learning to be a Woodsman you are able to learn the professional skills of forestry, farming and wood crafting. Another point of difference is that when a character has gained enough experience to go up a level in expertise, they don’t just click a button but must go to non-player characters in the game to ‘purchase’ skills. For example at the blacksmith, this represents having been regularly to the blacksmith to train. One great idea that has no bonus value for you character but adds an interesting layer to the way role play evolves is the character naming system. While you get to create your own name, the game engine adds prefixes and suffixes based on things you have achieved in game, such as ‘Spider-Foe’ if you have slain a great number of spiders. Thus Howlin (a Dwarf) would become ‘Howlin Spider-Foe’, or perhaps even ‘High Warden Howlin Spider-Foe’.

Neverwinter Nights was published by Bioware but the current version Neverwinter Nights II is an Obsidian product. The game now has had two expansion packs released, ‘Mask of the Betrayer’ during 2007 and in November 2008 ‘Storm of Zehir’. Overall this is a very engaging and addictive game with a fascinating storyline.

The rule set is based on Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 so that players create a character race from the following list; Dwarf, Elf, Human, Halfling, Planetouched, Gnome, Half-Elf, Half-Orc and within each of these there a sub-races such as Drow a kind of dark elf. After choosing a race players then elect what class or classes their character will be such as Bard, Barbarian, Wizard, Sorcerer, Rogue and so on. As the play the game and gain higher levels ‘Prestige’ classes become available such as Eldritch Knight, Pale Master or Weapon Master. The classes determine what skills and abilities you character can develop but also what strengths and weaknesses physically. A wizard for example will not be able to suffer much physical injury or ‘hit points’ before death, whereas a fighter is much more resilient. On the other hand a fighter will not resist spells cast on him as easily as a mage. Skills available include learning spells, how to craft and make magic items, picking locks or pockets, survival and tracking in the wilderness.

Having made your character you start the game and set off exploring the game world, killing monsters, completing quests and gathering items and treasure – all the time gaining experience and getting new and more powerful skills and spells. The adventure story that comes with the game is a pick a path type adventure where you meet characters that can be interacted with but depending on your characters morals an attitudes you may have a different outcome to another player. This adventure game can be played multi-player on a network, in which case you and your friends form a party and travel together to complete the story as a team.

The game can also be used to join free MMORPG worlds. There is a large community of creators who make persistent worlds using the tool-set which are online 24 hours a day. Some of these emphasize play style which is action based and others require a commitment to role playing and staying in character. One of the longest standing, popular and largest of these is Forgotten Realms, but other beautifully constructed worlds are Shores of Haldun and Return of Middle Earth II. There are many others too which make great choices as role playing PC games.

World of Warcraft was created by Blizzard Games and is the fourth game in the “Warcraft” series.  The series started with the original Warcraft which was a real time strategy game (RTS) – not a role playing game. Warcraft II and Warcraft III followed and both exhibited the RTS style of play – typically top down, resource and army management types of play. It was World of Warcraft that broke the mold and took blizzard fully into the RPG game world. Although Diablo I and II are also produced by Blizzard, and can be classed as RPG, they are not what purists would consider a full immersive RPG as the options for  character development are somewhat limited by comparison.

Although World Of Warcrawft is PC based it is important to note that the game requires an internet connection to be played and that the environment is not based on the users PC but in teh perpetual world controlled by the server. In this way the game developers can create new regions in the virtual perpetual world, putting in new challenges for role players to overcome and new treaures and bounty for the gamers to find. For many players the World Of Warcraft has become an addictive  second life – some even claiming it is preferable to the real world!

A key part of any roleplaying game is “Leveling” you character but this can be difficult and extremely time consuming. Obviously for many this is all part of the fun but for those who want fast track their progress a MMORPG Leveling Guide can help.