It has been an exceptional time to be an RPG fan. In just six years, we've had Disco Elysium, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, and so much more, and 2025 has proved to be yet another corker of a year for those so inclined. In the past 12 months, we've seen RPGs that run the gamut in terms of style and setting, from historically accurate Bohemian brutality to hypercapitalist exoplanets, there's been a storming set of RPGs released this year.
Let's be real, though – RPGs can be a big time sink, and if you've only got time to play a handful of them each year, which should you invest in? With that in mind, we've put the GamesRadar+ heads together to trim down a great year to just the five very best RPGs that you need to check out from this year!
