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Bastion
2011Play styleLoot hunting
Supporting signalsCrafting · Exploration
Action RPG with loot hunting.
719 IGDB ratingsOpen entry →
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Action RPG Games
Discover RPGs built around real-time combat, character growth, abilities, and equipment, from story-led adventures to loot-focused challenges.
17 accepted games Taxonomy v3 Source scores weighted by evidence
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Develop a character through real-time combat, abilities, and equipment. This broad family can include story-led adventures, Soulslike challenges, and loot-focused games. The narrower ARPG collection focuses on repeated equipment hunting and build optimization.
118 games before play-style filters. Filters combine and use supported source details; games with unknown details remain in All. A game may support both turn-based and real-time-with-pause combat. All years is the starting view so older classics remain visible.
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Diablo IV
2023Play styleLoot hunting
Supporting signalsOpen World
Action RPG with loot hunting.
288 IGDB ratingsOpen entry →
#0382/100
Torchlight II
2012Play styleLoot hunting
Action RPG with loot hunting.
319 IGDB ratingsOpen entry →
#0480/100
Path of Exile
2013Play styleDialogue & investigation / Loot hunting
Action RPG with dialogue & investigation, loot hunting.
493 IGDB ratingsOpen entry →
#0588/100
Path of Exile 2
2024Play styleLoot hunting
Action RPG with loot hunting.
103 IGDB ratingsOpen entry →
#0678/100
Grim Dawn
2016Play styleLoot hunting
Action RPG with loot hunting.
197 IGDB ratingsOpen entry →
#0780/100
Death Must Die
2023Play styleLoot hunting
Supporting signalsSurvivor-like · Roguelite
Action RPG with loot hunting.
19 IGDB ratingsOpen entry →
#0880/100
Until You Fall
2020Play styleLoot hunting
Supporting signalsRoguelike
Action RPG with loot hunting.
10 IGDB ratingsOpen entry →
#0973/100
Last Epoch
2024Play styleLoot hunting
Action RPG with loot hunting.
79 IGDB ratingsOpen entry →
#1072/100
Lords of the Fallen
2023Play styleLoot hunting
Supporting signalsSoulslike
Action RPG with loot hunting.
58 IGDB ratingsOpen entry →
#1164/100
Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity
2014Play styleLoot hunting
Action RPG with loot hunting.
13 IGDB ratingsOpen entry →
#1264/100
Lost Castle
2016Play styleLoot hunting
Supporting signalsRoguelite
Action RPG with loot hunting.
15 IGDB ratingsOpen entry →
#13—/100
Legendary Tales
2024Play styleLoot hunting
Action RPG with loot hunting.
2 ratingsOpen entry →
#14—/100
Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault
2025Play styleLoot hunting
Supporting signalsCrafting · Community Building · Shopkeeping
Action RPG with loot hunting.
1 ratingsOpen entry →
#15—/100
Mistfall Hunter
2026Play styleLoot hunting
Supporting signalsSoulslike · Extraction
Action RPG with loot hunting.
No ratings yetOpen entry →
#16—/100
Beast of Reincarnation
2026Play styleTurn-based / Tactical combat / Loot hunting
Supporting signalsExploration
Action RPG with turn-based, tactical combat, loot hunting.
No ratings yetOpen entry →
#17—/100
Dinoblade
2026Play styleLoot hunting
Action RPG with loot hunting.
No ratings yetOpen entry →
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A role-playing game whose character growth and build choices are expressed through real-time combat, movement, abilities, and equipment.
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Real-time combat is a sustained part of the RPG progression loop, and character growth, abilities, equipment, or builds materially shape that combat.
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Do not use Action RPG for a game whose defining structure is turn-based, tactical, simulation-led, immersive-sim, or a pure action game with only incidental upgrades. Use ARPG for the narrower Diablo-style loot-and-build form.