The most popular action RPG games

ARPG games (the acronym stands for Action Role-Playing Game) borrow gameplay elements from the action genre and mix them with real-time gameplay still retaining core RPG concepts that makes a CRPG (Computer Role-Playing Game) what it is. Combat is often dependent on the players' own reflexes while combat tactics usually play a minor role.

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Windwalker (Moebius 2)

DOS19892.8/5 Origin Systems

Conan: the Cimmerian

DOS19914.2/5 Synergistic Software

System Shock

DOS1994protected3.9/5 Looking Glass Studios

Divine Divinity

WindowsMac OS2002protected4.3/5 Larian Studios

Divine Divinity is a role-playing game (RPG) developed by Larian Studios and released in 2002. It's the first game in the Divinity series, which has since expanded with several sequels and spin-offs. The game is set in a fantasy world called Rivellon, which is threatened by the rise of an evil force known as the Black Ring. Players take on the role...

Zeliard

DOS19904/5 Game Arts

Zeliard is a fantasy platformer - JRPG hybrid with metroidvania gameplay elements developed by Game Arts and released for DOS in 1990. Zeliard is a single-player game.

Entomorph: Plague Of The Darkfall

Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.xMac OS1995protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

The Adventures of Robin Hood

DOS19923.7/5 Millennium Interactive

Amulets & Armor

DOS1997freeware4.1/5 United Software Artists

Amulets & Armor is a first-person ARPG (action RPG) with a fantasy setting. It was developed and published as shareware for DOS by United Software Artists in 1997. Amulets & Armor became freeware in 2013. Gameplay is mission-based; the player can take up quests in any order and even complete the same quests over and over.

Hillsfar

DOS1989protected3.8/5 Westwood Studios

Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss

DOS1992protected4.2/5 Blue Sky Productions

Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss is one of the first free-roaming first-person 3D ARPG (action RPG) ever created. The Stygian Abyss is the dungeon of the same name, part of the land of Britannia, and it's set in the Ultima universe created by Richard Garriott. Ultima Underworld was designed by Paul Neurath, developed by Blue Sky Productions and...