Best CRPG besides Baldur's Gate 3?

[OyajiBR☕]

I can't believe I missed out the subgenre CRPG my entire life. If others are like BG3, I'll love them. I added many to my wish list, including BG1 and 2. Could the CRPG veterans suggest me the best ones to try first, after I finish my first BG3 gameplay?

[Paroe]

Most CRPGs arent turn based.
But check out pillars of eternity, divinity original sin 2, and wasteland 2 (or 3, but thats expensive and doesnt have multiplayer)

[BigJ]

Tyranny
Anything in neverwinter
DOS2

[BeautifulFlowerField]

Fallout 2 (greatest of all time IMO), Planescape Torment, Icewind Dale

[zombygunner]

BEST GAMES LIKE BG3 yeah pathfinder kingmaker and wrath of the righteous both imo better than this game as far as options go levels way past 20 and looks the same on screen and the controls are pretty much the same. biggest diff this game has a visible die roll

[Empukris]

If BG3 is your first crpg

I recommend these in exact order
- Bg1 and bg2
- Pillar of Eternity both 1 and 2
- dragon age series
- pathfinder wotr (play pathfinder after you understand the spell and classes very well, this game is designed for meta min max player)
These are the main one. If you still crave for it you have
- Neverwinter nights (multiple campaign)
- Icewindale
- Torment planescape (im playing this when BG3 launched)
- Knight of the old republic 1 and 2 (also good old classic very easy to learn)
- Wasteland 3
Other game that you can check but personally I dont really like it that much.
- Tyranny
- Torment tides of Numennera

[darlliu]

BG trilogy remake and Planescape Torment for the classics. DOS2 and Pathfinders WotR for more modern CRPGs.

[zombygunner]

but the pathfinder games are the closest to BG3

[Quillithe]

It kinda depends what you like:

Immersive sim aspects - not too many have them, Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2 (they aren't related so don't worry about playing them in order) and the old Ultima games.

Polish and cutscenes, Dragon Age Origins is well received though it's a little old by now.

Writing and gameplay, I rather like Pillars of Eternity 2 (you can skip 1 honestly) and Tyranny

If you really want to dig into rules and details both Pathfinder games are good, but you have to want this. They have literally hundreds of subclasses.

Among older games of course I suggest Baldur's Gate 2 (1 has not aged very well in comparison), Fallout, Arcanum

If you want the best writing and don't care about gameplay, Planescape Torment

I'm a personal fan of Underrail but it's hard to suggest. And then there's first person crpgs too, but this is probably enough without listing every CRPG lol

[Eviltoy]

I loved silver from 1999. Game where i was children.

[newtyng5]

Solasta (main campaign)

[SMRT]

One not listed here and is amazing: Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. It's an isometric turn based OR realtime (you can toggle it) CRPG. It's set in a fantasy world going through the early stages of an industrial revolution. Graphics are about the same as the original Fallout games but it is really deep and has great voice acting for it's time. Phenomenal "classless" levelling system. One of the best of it's era, but was basically unplayable at launch, the community mod fixes it.

[wendigo211]

These days I think you have to Play Arcanum in TB mode. It's way too fast in real time mode (IIRC they tied the game speed to the computer clock speed). There might be a mod that lets you slow it down. If you do buy it, get it on GoG, it's easier to mod the old games on GoG, since they don't encrypt their binaries like Steam does. Most of the time if you buy an old game on Steam you have to download the GoG executable before you can mod it.

I'd recommend, DOS 1 and 2, Temple of Elemental Evil (If you like D&D and want to see what 3e was like) and Expeditions: Viking (Rome is good too, but I think Viking was better)

[SMRT]

Originally posted by wendigo211:

These days I think you have to Play Arcanum in TB mode. It's way too fast in real time mode (IIRC they tied the game speed to the computer clock speed). There might be a mod that lets you slow it down. If you do buy it, get it on GoG, it's easier to mod the old games on GoG, since they don't encrypt their binaries like Steam does. Most of the time if you buy an old game on Steam you have to download the GoG executable before you can mod it.

I'd recommend, DOS 1 and 2, Temple of Elemental Evil (If you like D&D and want to see what 3e was like) and Expeditions: Viking (Rome is good too, but I think Viking was better)

Believe it or not it was always that fast, at least for me! You've got to really pay attention, or, use realtime when you know you'll stomp the enemy.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Ultima 5 and Ultima 6 are probably the best crpg's of all time, even better than BG3.

Ultima 4 and 7 are also great, but 5 + 6 are just a bit better.

[Caffeine]

Pretty much everything mentioned here, plus a couple more.

Age Of Decadence
Arcanum
Atom RPG
Baldur's Gate 1,2
Disco Elysium
Divine Divinity
Divinity 1,2 (Also made by Larian.)
Dragon Age 1,2,3
Fallout 1,2
Icewind Dale 1,2
Lionheart: Legacy Of The Crusader
Neverwinter Nights 1,2
Path Of Exile
Pathfinder Kingmaker
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous
Pillars of Eternity
Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire
Planscape Torment (My personal favorite story in a CRPG ever.)
Shadowrun
Shadowrun Returns
Shadowrun Hong Kong
Solasta: Crown of the Magister
Spellforce 1,2,3
Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic 1,2
The Temple of Elemental Evil
Torment: Tides Of Numenera
Tyranny (Severely, tragically underrated IMHO.)
Wasteland 1,2,3
Wizardry 8 (The whole series is decent but 8 is the pinnacle.)

Of all of these, I would recommend Planescape Torment, Tyranny, Arcanum and Disco Elusium if story is your thing. If you want the best game system, Wizardry 8, Pathfinder, Path of Exile and Divinity are stand-outs. If you want uniqueness and originality, Fallout, Arcanum, Plansecape, Disco Elysiuim or Tyranny are all good choices. My favorites (for no particular reason) are probably Plansecape Torment, Star Wars KOTOR, Arcanum and Tyranny.

And yes, I have completed every single one of these games at least once. Most of them more than once. Happy playing.