#01Path of Exile
2013Play styleDialogue & investigation / Loot hunting
ARPG with dialogue & investigation, loot hunting.
Find Diablo-style RPGs about clearing encounters, hunting better equipment, and shaping a character build. Explore the loot-focused side of action role-playing.
Find your kind of role-playing
Clear encounters, hunt for better equipment, and refine a character build. This is the Diablo-style form of action RPG. Camera angle, an inventory, or an ARPG acronym alone does not establish that loop.
25 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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Why these games appear
The Diablo-style action RPG form: real-time combat organized around dungeon or area clearing, character builds, and repeatable equipment and loot progression.
Include when
The core loop repeatedly combines real-time combat with build-defining skills or classes, equipment progression, and loot hunting or optimization across dungeons, maps, or other repeatable combat content.
Leave out when
Do not use ARPG as shorthand for every action RPG. Exclude Soulslikes, Monster Hunter-style hunting games, cinematic action-adventures, JRPGs, and other real-time RPGs unless the Diablo-style loot-and-build loop is itself the defining structure.