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Official 2024 HQ RPG VOTING!!!

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Official 2024 HQ RPG VOTING!!!

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SKALD: Against the Black Priory
32
15%
Our Adventurer Guild
19
9%
Metaphor ReFantazio
18
9%
Dragon's Dogma 2
11
5%
Drova - Forsaken Kin
11
5%
King Arthur: Legion IX
10
5%
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
9
4%
Felvidek
9
4%
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
9
4%
Alaloth: Champions of the Four Kingdoms
9
4%
Fallout: London
9
4%
Dragon Ruins
7
3%
Last Epoch
7
3%
Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth
6
3%
Geneforge 2 - Infestation
5
2%
The Matchless KungFu
4
2%
Cryptmaster
4
2%
The Thaumaturge
4
2%
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak
4
2%
Granblue Fantasy: Relink
4
2%
The Black Grimoire: Cursebreaker
3
1%
Ludus Mortis
3
1%
Path of Achra
3
1%
Caves of Qud
3
1%
Kingsvein
2
1%
Dread Delusion
2
1%
Arco
2
1%
Vendir: Plague of Lies
0
No votes
Subterrain: Mines of Titan
0
No votes
Crown Wars: The Black Prince
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 209

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Official 2024 HQ RPG VOTING!!!

Post by rusty_shackleford »

Lads & Lemons,

You have had up to two years to play and digest the RPGs that released in 2024. It is time to decide which of those games were the least terrible.

How it works:
  • You get 5 votes, being able to assign up to three votes for a single game. Not all votes must be spent.
  • To be able to vote, you must have a post count of at least 15. Attempts to vote using alts will result in harsh penalties.
  • The poll will run for 30 days from the creation date of this thread.
  • You may freely change your vote until the poll ends.
  • All votes are hidden until the poll ends.
Game criteria:
  • Release date means the full game released in English that year. If a game was released prior but available in English in 2024, then it is considered a 2024 game for our purposes. Unofficial translations do not count.
  • No DLC. Standalone expansions are fine.
  • Games that are so-called 'total conversions' — games made using an existing game's engine, are fine. Examples from prior years include Archolos, Enderal, Fallout Sonora, and so on.
  • Only RPGs will be included, games that have lite RPG elements were first on the chopping block to be excluded when I was adding games.
  • It must have released on PC.




If your favorite game from 2024 isn't on the list, I select only 30 games and it didn't make the cut.
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What a disappointing year for RPGs.
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I think early access really dilutes the impact of releases, I tried a lot of these in early access and don't remember much of anything about them!
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How did you end up deciding on these? Amount of discussion in them here?
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The only upside to a thread like this is to find out the odd 1 cool RPG you've never heard of before. Otherwise, it's just an exercise in depressive thoughts.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: October 28th, 2024, 07:36
Mediocre or bad games can still have parts that are good.
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I've played none of those games. LMAO
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rusty_shackleford wrote: October 28th, 2024, 07:36
Mediocre or bad games can still have parts that are good.
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Acrux wrote: January 5th, 2026, 17:32
How did you end up deciding on these? Amount of discussion in them here?
Dartboard, of course
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I figured I would have played at least one of the games nominated, but nope.
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Yeah, haven't played any of these either. Is it wrong to vote for the ones I know will be good even if I haven't played them yet?
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WhiteShark wrote: January 5th, 2026, 18:08
Yeah, haven't played any of these either. Is it wrong to vote for the ones I know will be good even if I haven't played them yet?
Yes
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Someday I will come back to this thread to vote for Kingsvein, Our Adventurer Guild, Granblue Fantasy: Relink, and perhaps Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance. Just putting this here as a reminder.

EDIT: Nevermind, just saw the time limit. Oh well.
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Withering Rooms.
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I ended up giving 1 vote each to the only ones I had played. I'm not sure all of them deserve it, so they lucked out.
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I voted once for every game I played some of, except for Drova, which was decent, which I voted for twice.
You may as well not bother replying to my posts if it's to argue anything except concrete facts or your personal opinion. I still probably won't see it.
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Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord released in 1981.
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Dorateen wrote: January 5th, 2026, 18:46
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord released in 1981.

Yea but it got a remake

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rusty_shackleford wrote: January 5th, 2026, 18:47
Dorateen wrote: January 5th, 2026, 18:46
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord released in 1981.
Yea but it got a remake
Yes, I was making a bit of a joke. So can I vote for Wizardry based on the original version if I didn't play the remake?
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Wait, is "Our Adventurer Guild" a real game or are you talking about the RPGHQ Adventurer's Guild games?
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logincrash wrote: January 5th, 2026, 18:54
Wait, is "Our Adventurer Guild" a real game or are you talking about the RPGHQ Adventurer's Guild games?
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logincrash wrote: January 5th, 2026, 18:54
Wait, is "Our Adventurer Guild" a real game or are you talking about the RPGHQ Adventurer's Guild games?
And it's pretty good.
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Post by Val the Moofia Boss »

Did we not already do this last year?

My choices remain the same. GBF Relink > Kuro no Kiseki 2/Trails Through Daybreak 2 >>> Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail >> World of Warcraft: The War Within
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Val the Moofia Boss wrote: January 5th, 2026, 19:25
Did we not already do this last year?
That was unsanctioned and done prematurely. rusty always gives a full year so that people have time to play games that came out at the end of the calendar year.
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Metaphor might have gotten some votes from me if the story weren't pozzed up the wazoo. Sucks that Persona 3 Reload isn't on the list, but Last Epoch is great too :pipe-hat:
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I've only played Skald. It was ok. Too bad I can't give Dread Delusion negative votes.
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this is a good idea
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One year just isn't enough time. We should vote for the best RPGs of 10 years ago.
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WhiteShark wrote: January 5th, 2026, 20:59
One year just isn't enough time. We should vote for the best RPGs of 10 years ago.
I was considering doing monthly RPGOTY polls starting with 197X up until whenever we started here but never got around to it
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Not interested in any of these except DD2 which I expect to be a disappointing sequel even after all the patches.
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Gave 1 point to Drova cause it's the only game from the list that I tried and willing to play in the future.
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Post by ThulsaDoomer »

I'll be honest I don't think I have played any of these, I think I have a few downloaded but I'm just not that hyped for a single title in this poll and haven't been since they released. Am I cooked?