If there's one genre that you can rely on to deliver at least a handful of standout games year on year without fail, it's role playing games. A stalwart of the industry, this is the one style of games that has not only grown and expanded since the infancy of the medium, but had a far greater influence on games as a whole than any other.
2021 didn't quite have any games that might be classified as all-time greats, but even so, there was no shortage of excellent RPGs that one can sink dozens upon dozens of hours into, if not more. Here, we're going to recognize those games, with our nominees for the best RPGs of the year, followed by the game we felt was the greatest of them all.
