1980s Role-playing games

30 Role-playing classics first released 1980 to 1989, in release order, and 284 games looking back to them.

Games looking back to them

• Akalabeth Pyxel: Pyxel retro-engine remake of Akalabeth.
• Vecalabeth: Vector-graphics remake of Akalabeth hosted on the Ultima Codex.
• 100 Rogues: Comedic iOS roguelike in classic dungeon style.
• ADOM: Classic roguelike long distributed from its author's site; later remade on Steam.
• Brogue: Free elegant ASCII roguelike originally offered only from its author's site.
• Brogue: Community Edition: Community-maintained continuation of Brogue.
• Caves of Qud: Science-fantasy roguelike RPG in classic tile style.
• Cogmind: Sci-fi robot-building roguelike drawn in ASCII-style terminal graphics, long sold from its creator's site.
• Desktop Dungeons: Puzzle-like ten-minute roguelike, first released free from its own site.
• DRL (DoomRL): Free turn-based roguelike version of Doom distributed from ChaosForge's site.
• Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: Free open-source continuation of Linley's Dungeon Crawl, never put on Steam.
• Dungeon Monkey Eternal: Free tactical party dungeon crawler released on the author's GitHub.
• Dungeonmans: Comedic classic-style roguelike with an academy for heroes.
• Dungeons of Dredmor: Comedic graphical roguelike in the NetHack mold.
• Dungeons of Everchange: Traditional roguelike with switchable real-time mode; an ASCII edition is on itch.io.
• Dungeons of Miasma: First-person crawler blended with an ASCII roguelike.
• Dwarf Fortress (Classic): ASCII colony sim given away from Bay 12's site for 16 years before the 2022 Steam edition.
• Golden Krone Hotel: Vampire-themed roguelike with light and shadow mechanics.
• Golel: First-person roguelike dungeon crawler by a solo developer.
• Haque: Glitchy low-resolution roguelike in an Atari-era style.
• Infra Arcana: Free Lovecraftian roguelike shared from the author's own pages.
• Jupiter Hell: Full 3D commercial successor to DoomRL.
• Lost Labyrinth DX: Updated edition of the 2001 freeware graphical roguelike Lost Labyrinth.
• Moonring: Free Ultima-like by a Fable co-creator.
• Moraff's Revenge: Shareware dungeon crawler with a 17-level beginner version and 70 registered levels.
• NEO Scavenger: Hex-map post-apocalyptic survival RPG first sold from the developer's site.
• Path of Achra: Traditional roguelike built around huge build combinations.
• Pixel Dungeon: Small open-source pixel-art roguelike for phones and PC.
• POWDER: Free roguelike first made for the Game Boy Advance, spread from the author's site.
• Rogue Fable III: Traditional turn-based roguelike grown from free browser games on itch.io.
• Rogue Fable IV: Latest of a decade-long series of traditional roguelikes.
• Rogue Survivor: Free zombie-apocalypse roguelike shared from the author's blog.
• Rogue Wizards: Turn-based roguelike in the style of Mystery Dungeon.
• Roguecraft: Modern roguelike made for the Amiga, later on Spectrum Next, Game Boy Color and MEGA65.
• Shattered Pixel Dungeon: Open-source expanded fork of Pixel Dungeon.
• Smart Kobold: Tiny seven-day roguelike by the author of POWDER.
• Spelunky Classic: Free original Game Maker version of Spelunky, distributed from the author's site.
• The Rogue Fable: Free browser roguelike about stealing the Goblet of Yendor.
• Ultima Ratio Regum: Free ASCII roguelike about a 17th-century conspiracy, released only from the author's blog.
• UnReal World: Iron Age Finland survival roguelike sold from its own site for 24 years before Steam.
• Zorbus: Traditional turn-based tile roguelike, free from its site and later on Steam.
• Akaruuk: Old-school open-world RPG styled on the early Ultimas, offered from the author's own site.
• Ashes: Two Worlds Collide: 3D RPG inspired by Ultima VII.
• Avadon 2: The Corruption: Second Avadon game.
• Avadon 3: The Warborn: Final Avadon game.
• Avadon: The Black Fortress: Party RPG with old-school tile maps.
• Avernum: Isometric remake of Exile; first sold as shareware from the developer's site.
• Avernum 2: Shareware remake of Exile II from Spiderweb's site.
• Avernum 2: Crystal Souls: Modern remake of Exile II.
• Avernum 3: Shareware remake of Exile III.
• Avernum 3: Ruined World: Modern remake of Exile III.
• Avernum 4: First all-new Avernum story in the old-school tile style.
• Avernum 4: Greed and Glory: Remake of Avernum 4 in the newer engine.
• Avernum 5: Continuation of the Avernum underworld saga.
• Avernum 6: Finale of the second Avernum trilogy.
• Avernum: Escape from the Pit: Second remake of the first Exile game.
• Back to Roots: Exult-style engine remake of Ultima IV and V.
• Blades of Avernum: Avernum-engine scenario editor and adventures, a remake of Blades of Exile.
• Blades of Exile: Exile engine with a scenario editor; source released in 2007 and still kept alive by fans.
• Blood & Chaos: Party-based roguelike inspired by 1980s RPGs.
• Bludgeons & Krakens: Retro epic RPG tagged in the Ultima tradition.
• Chronicles of Sosaria: Fan project set in Ultima III-era Sosaria.
• Code of the Savage RPG: Dark fantasy RPG inspired by Ultima.
• Corven: Path of Redemption: Open-world RPG by the former Ultima IX: Redemption team, in an original setting.
• Cosmos Chronicles: Open-world retro 2D RPG across a galaxy, also released for the Atari ST.
• Crimson Twilight: New Commodore 64 RPG drawing on Questron and the early Ultimas.
• Crypt Wizard: Ultima-style game announced by the creator of EUO.
• Dink Smallwood: Top-down tile RPG, freeware and open source since 2003, given away from RTsoft's site.
• El Portal Negro: First-person Unity remake of Ultima VII.
• Elderlands: Tile-based MMORPG by a former Origin developer.
• Epica Rex: Crowdfunded Ultima-inspired RPG built in Minecraft style.
• Eschalon: Book I: Turn-based isometric RPG first sold from the developer's site; now free on Steam and GOG.
• Eschalon: Book II: Sequel in the same old-school style.
• Eschalon: Book III: Final Eschalon book.
• Euotopia (EUO): Free multiplayer tile RPG modeled on the classic Ultima look.
• Excelsior Phase One: Lysandia: Tile-based classic RPG in the style of Ultima.
• Excelsior Phase Two: Errondor: Sequel to Lysandia in the same Ultima style.
• Exile II: Crystal Souls: Second Exile shareware RPG with top-down tiles and party combat; now freeware from the developer.
• Exile III: Ruined World: Last of the original Exile shareware trilogy, made freeware in 2013.
• Exile: Escape from the Pit: Shareware tile-based RPG in the Ultima mold; freeware on Spiderweb's own site since 2013.
• Exult: Engine that runs Ultima VII and Serpent Isle on modern systems and powers fan mods.
• Flight of the Maxima: Ultima-inspired RPG built on the IRE engine.
• Geneforge: Shareware RPG about shaping creatures, with old-style isometric tiles.
• Geneforge 1 - Mutagen: Remake of the first Geneforge.
• Geneforge 2: Second Geneforge shareware RPG.
• Geneforge 2 - Infestation: Remake of Geneforge 2.
• Geneforge 3: Third Geneforge shareware RPG.
• Geneforge 3 - Detonation: Kickstarted remake of Geneforge 3, announced as coming soon.
• Geneforge 4: Rebellion: Fourth Geneforge shareware RPG.
• Geneforge 5: Overthrow: Final original Geneforge game.
• Knights of the Chalice: D&D 3.5 tactical RPG at 320x240 in the Gold Box tradition, first sold only from its own site.
• Knights of the Chalice II: Kickstarted D&D-style tactical RPG sold from the developer's own store as well as Steam and GOG.
• Lawless Legends: Wild West fantasy RPG built for the Apple II, also playable on modern systems.
• Legend of the Avatar: Fan project retelling the history of Sosaria.
• Legends of Amberland III: The Crimson Tower: Third Amberland game, a classic western RPG drawing on 1990s party crawlers.
• Lords of Xulima: Old-school party RPG modeled on Might and Magic and Wizardry.
• Lowlander II: Mobile sequel to an Ultima II-inspired tile RPG.
• Lurking: Old-school CRPG inspired by Ultima III and Wizardry with a classless skill tree.
• Lurking I: Immortui: Retro party-based fantasy RPG on itch.io.
• Lurking II: A Madness: Retro party-based sequel.
• Morgaelin: Browser-based low-resolution demake of Ultima VIII using Ultima IV-style tiles.
• Myrkvidr: Brutal retro RPG on itch.io built around Ultima III and IV.
• Nethergate: Tile-based RPG set in Roman Britain, playable as Celts or Romans.
• Nethergate: Resurrection: Rewrite of Nethergate sold only through Spiderweb's own ordering page.
• Nox Archaist: New Ultima-style RPG written for real Apple II computers.
• Nuvie: Open engine for the Ultima VI engine games; Ultima VI is completable, now merged into ScummVM.
• Open Sosaria: Engine recreation of the first Ultima.
• OpenArthurianX6: Crowdfunded RPG creation kit with an Ultima VI-style engine.
• Otpad World: Simplified retro browser dungeon-crawling RPG.
• Pentagram: Exult-style engine for Ultima VIII; its code later went into ScummVM's Ultima engine.
• Penult: Ultima-style RPG with a DOS edition using CGA graphics for early PCs.
• Queen's Wish 2: The Tormentor: Sequel to Queen's Wish.
• Queen's Wish: The Conqueror: Old-school RPG with fort building.
• Sanctimonia: Indie Ultima-inspired online RPG.
• ScummVM: Huge project that reimplements hundreds of adventure and RPG engines from LucasArts, Sierra, Origin and more.
• Serpent in the Staglands: Kickstarted hardcore RPG modeled on Darklands-era design.
• Shadow Over Moonglow (Divinity: Original Sin 2 mod): Standalone Divinity: Original Sin 2 campaign set as a prequel to Ultima V.
• Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues: Online RPG by Ultima creator Richard Garriott pitched as a spiritual successor to Ultima.
• Skald: Against the Black Priory: Kickstarted Commodore 64-style RPG inspired by Ultima.
• The Dark Unknown: Tile-based RPG modeled on Ultima V, playable in the browser from the author's site.
• The Gate of Sosaria: Ultima fan RPG set in Sosaria.
• The Lost Swords of Taliesin: 8-bit-style RPG inspired by Ultima III, Deathlord and Questron.
• The New Puritan Parish for the Eradication of Devils: Retro RPG set in a fantasy New England.
• The Real Texas: Old West action RPG built in the style of Ultima VI.
• The Savage Empire Remake (Exult mod for Ultima VII): Remake of The Savage Empire in the Exult engine.
• The Serpent Isle Remake (Oblivion mod): Remake of Serpent Isle as an Oblivion mod.
• The Ultima 6 Project (Dungeon Siege total conversion): Remake of Ultima VI as a Dungeon Siege total conversion.
• The Ultima 6 Remake (Ultima VII mod for Exult): Remake of Ultima VI inside the Exult (Ultima VII) engine.
• Tibia: Tile-based fantasy MMORPG run only from its own site since 1997.
• u4-decompiled: Hand-decompiled C source of the DOS Ultima IV that rebuilds a playable game.
• u6-decompiled: Decompiled, rebuildable C source of the DOS Ultima VI.
• Ultima 1 Revenge: Modern engine rebuild of Ultima I with a playable demo.
• Ultima 1 Revisited: From-scratch remake of the first Ultima.
• Ultima 3 Remake in Python: Hobby remake of Ultima III written in Python.
• Ultima 3 Upgrade (patch for the PC Ultima III): Graphics, music and interface upgrade for the PC Ultima III.
• Ultima 3.5: Pax Britannia: New Ultima-style game for a custom 8-bit Z80 system.
• Ultima 5 Redux: Modern rebuild of Ultima V that reads the original data, developed on its own blog.
• Ultima 6 Online: Online multiplayer reimplementation of Ultima VI.
• Ultima 7 Part 3: The Feudal Lands (Ultima VII mod for Exult): Fan story expansion continuing Ultima VII in Exult.
• Ultima III: A New Exodus (NES Ultima III ROM hack): ROM mod of the NES Ultima III that rebalances classes and races.
• Ultima IX: Redemption (Morrowind mod): Reimagining of Ultima IX built on the Morrowind engine, later aimed at OpenMW.
• Ultima Return: Fan continuation of the Serpent Isle story.
• Ultima V Redux: Mostly faithful remake of Ultima V using the original data files, now being rewritten in Go as UltimaVRedux.
• Ultima V: Lazarus (Dungeon Siege mod): Free remake of Ultima V on the Dungeon Siege engine, distributed from its own site.
• Ultima VII Revisited: Open-source 3D replacement engine for Ultima VII with reworked inventory and combat; needs the original files.
• Ultima: Escape from Mount Drash remake: PC remake of the rare VIC-20 Ultima spinoff.
• Ultima: The Invasion of Mondain: Remake of Ultima I.
• Underworld Ascension: Classic-style fantasy RPG on itch.io.
• Unknown Realm: The Siege Perilous: 8-bit style RPG for PC and Commodore 64 in the mold of early Ultima.
• uUltima: One-to-one Unity remake of Ultima I.
• xu4: Open-source remake of the Ultima IV engine with optional upgraded graphics.
• Mines of Morgoth: Moria-style Tolkien roguelike for mobile.
• Sil: Free Angband-derived roguelike set in Tolkien's First Age.
• Breath of Death VII: The Beginning: Short 8-bit JRPG parody of Dragon Quest-era games.
• Chronicles of Veldoria: Monster-allying JRPG sold only as a direct purchase from Aldorlea.
• Clad Generation: Small classic-style JRPG on itch.io.
• Cthulhu Saves the World: 16-bit-style JRPG parody starring Cthulhu.
• Dragon Battle: Game Boy-style RPG of 25 dragon fights, also released as a real GB ROM.
• Dragon Fantasy: Book I: 8-bit JRPG that copies Dragon Quest's mechanics with EarthBound-style humor.
• Dragon Fantasy: Heroes of Tsufana: 8-bit fantasy adventure recreating NES-era RPGs.
• Dragon Fantasy: The Black Tome of Ice: 16-bit sequel with on-map battles and monster capture.
• Dragon Lord Chronicles: Episode 1: NES-style quest to avenge a father and free the land.
• Dragon Quest +: Free fan remake of the first Dragon Quest made over a decade, with new monsters, mini-dungeons and an orchestral score.
• Dragon Warrior I Remake (Quohelet): RPG Maker VX Ace remake of the first Dragon Warrior, about 5 to 7 hours long.
• Dragon Warrior Remake 3D: Unity 3D fan remake of the first Dragon Warrior.
• Dragon Warrior: Begin a New Quest: PC fan game set in the Dragon Warrior world.
• Dragon Warrior: Descendant of Erdrick: Fan game that revisits and expands on the first Dragon Warrior.
• Dragon's Den II: The Terranic Empire: Tribute to Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.
• Dragoon X Omega (Dragon Warrior ROM hack): Replaces Dragon Warrior's fantasy world with a post-apocalyptic science fiction story, new graphics and music: the last survivor of a psychic rebellion must save the land of Amnethen.
• King's Crew: Browser JRPG homage to Dragon Quest about finding Queen Aly.
• Laxius Force: Long turn-based JRPG-style adventure sold as a direct download from Aldorlea's site.
• Laxius Force II: Second Laxius Force chapter, sold mainly from Aldorlea's own site.
• Laxius Force III: Conclusion of the Laxius Force trilogy.
• Laxius Soul: Seventh Laxius game, bought only through the BMT Micro cart on Aldorlea's site.
• Millennium: A New Hope: First of five episodic 16-bit-style RPGs about Marine; later also on Steam.
• Summoned: Old-school browser RPG about a ghost trying to get home.
• The Cruxis Sword: Traditional JRPG with a twist on the save-the-world story.
• Throne of Bones: Finale of the Throne series of 2D turn-based RPGs, sold direct from Aldorlea.
• Throne of Glass: Middle chapter of the Throne series, sold direct from Aldorlea.
• Throne of Shadows: First game of the Throne series, sold direct from Aldorlea.
• Witch Hunt (Aldorlea): Retro 2D RPG about a witch whose boyfriend was turned into a chicken.
• Starflight: The Lost Colony: Free fan-made sequel to Starflight.
• 3 Stars of Destiny: Retro JRPG sold through Aldorlea's own store.
• Ahriman's Prophecy: Free RPG Maker prequel to Aveyond, first released on the author's own site.
• Ara Fell: RPG Maker-built 16-bit style adventure, later Enhanced Edition.
• Asguaard: Retro JRPG with a demon-hunting hero.
• Aveyond 2: Ean's Quest: Second Aveyond JRPG-style adventure, first sold from Amaranth's site.
• Aveyond 3: Lord of Twilight: Episodic Aveyond sequel.
• Aveyond: Rhen's Quest: Shareware JRPG-style adventure first sold from Amaranth's site.
• Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden: Free parody JRPG shared only from the studio's own site.
• Before Crisis Remake: Fan remake of the Japan-only mobile Final Fantasy VII prequel.
• Chained Echoes: Solo-developed 16-bit JRPG drawing on Chrono Trigger, Xenogears and Final Fantasy VI.
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: French turn-based RPG openly inspired by Final Fantasy.
• Cris Tales: Colombian Kickstarter JRPG with time-split battles.
• Crystal Project: Solo-made open-world job-system RPG in the Final Fantasy V vein.
• Doraemon: Nobita's Final Fantasy: Obscure Japanese Final Fantasy fan game starring Doraemon characters.
• Dragoon X Omega II (Final Fantasy ROM hack): The large-scale sequel to Dragoon X Omega, moved onto a modified Final Fantasy engine with a new world and story.
• Edge of Eternity: Kickstarted French indie JRPG in the Final Fantasy mold.
• Fantasian Neo Dimension: Diorama JRPG by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi.
• ff1snes: Port of the NES Final Fantasy to the SNES from its disassembly.
• FFVII Dreamake (made in Dreams): Fan recreation of Final Fantasy VII's opening built inside Dreams on PS4.
• Final Fantasy 4: Job System (Final Fantasy IV ROM hack): Rebuilds Final Fantasy IV around 14 Final Fantasy V-style jobs that change stats, gear, spells, commands and battle sprites.
• Final Fantasy 6: A Complete Hack (Final Fantasy VI ROM hack): Reworks Final Fantasy VI's sprites, script, bosses and equipment, with an optional hard mode.
• Final Fantasy Blackmoon Prophecy: Long RPG Maker 2003 fan game made as an homage to the SNES Final Fantasy games.
• Final Fantasy Blackmoon Prophecy Remake: Remake of the fan game Blackmoon Prophecy, planned at 40 to 60 hours.
• Final Fantasy C2 (Final Fantasy IV ROM hack): Loosely retells Final Fantasy II inside the Final Fantasy IV engine, with new side quests, summons, spells and items.
• Final Fantasy II-2: Genesis of the Dark Crystals: Fan-made sequel to the original Famicom Final Fantasy II.
• Final Fantasy IV Alter Destiny: Reimagining of Final Fantasy IV with an alternate storyline.
• Final Fantasy IV: Daughter of Darkness and Light (Final Fantasy IV ROM hack): Retells Final Fantasy IV with Rosa as the protagonist on a path to redemption after a different chain of events, built on Project II's restored content.
• Final Fantasy IV: The Darkness Within (Final Fantasy IV ROM hack): A new story for Final Fantasy IV with reordered events, side quests, new dialogue and rebalanced spells, summons and gear.
• Final Fantasy IV: Ultima (SNES ROM hack): ROM hack adding story events, quests, superbosses and hidden areas to Final Fantasy IV.
• Final Fantasy IV: Unprecedented Crisis (Final Fantasy IV ROM hack): Made by the author of the FF4kster editor to show what it can do: the story starts familiar, then branches into a new sequence of events.
• Final Fantasy IX Demake: 8-bit style browser demake that explores Alexandria.
• Final Fantasy Redux (Final Fantasy ROM hack): A remaster of the NES Final Fantasy with twelve starting jobs, a revamped magic system and broad rebalancing.
• Final Fantasy Restored (Final Fantasy ROM hack): A definitive rebuild of the NES Final Fantasy that restores cut content, fixes the original's broken spells and items and rebalances the whole game.
• Final Fantasy V: Ancient Cave (Final Fantasy V ROM hack): Turns Final Fantasy V into a randomized dungeon crawl modeled on Lufia II's Ancient Cave.
• Final Fantasy VI Disassembly: Full buildable disassembly of Final Fantasy VI, one of a series covering FF II to VI.
• Final Fantasy VI Tactics: World of Ruin (Final Fantasy Tactics ROM hack): Recreates the main battles of Final Fantasy VI's story as a strategy game on the Final Fantasy Tactics engine.
• Final Fantasy VI: A Soldier's Contingency (Final Fantasy VI ROM hack): Expands Final Fantasy VI on top of the General Leo Edition with new monsters, equipment, battle themes and rebalanced combat that needs no grinding.
• Final Fantasy VI: Brave New World (SNES ROM hack): ROM hack that overhauls Final Fantasy VI's Espers, equipment and balance.
• Final Fantasy VI: Divergent Paths (Final Fantasy VI ROM hack): Reworks Final Fantasy VI's story around its characters, giving General Leo his own arc as a playable hero plus a secret 16th character.
• Final Fantasy VI: Hope Eternal and Love Everlasting (Final Fantasy VI ROM hack): Overhauls Final Fantasy VI with new enemies and items, tougher fights, a rewritten script and a more vivid palette, keeping the original maps and story beats.
• Final Fantasy VI: Return of the Dark Sorcerer (Final Fantasy VI ROM hack): A brand-new game on the Final Fantasy VI engine, years in the making: new playable cast, new story, new maps and a custom soundtrack.
• Final Fantasy VI: T-Edition + EX (Final Fantasy VI ROM hack): A popular Japanese expansion of Final Fantasy VI that keeps the story but adds side quests, new dungeons, super-bosses, alternate costumes and hundreds of music tracks from across the series.
• Final Fantasy VI: The Eternal Crystals (Final Fantasy VI ROM hack): Adds new music, sprites, espers and dungeons to Final Fantasy VI, with 15 playable characters.
• Final Fantasy VII (NES demake): Unlicensed Chinese Famicom demake of Final Fantasy VII, later fixed up by fan translators.
• Final Fantasy VII Reloaded (Unreal Engine 3 demo): Short first-person Unreal Engine 3 demo of Final Fantasy VII's opening.
• Final Fantasy VII Snowboarding (Fan Game): Fan recreation of the Final Fantasy VII snowboarding minigame.
• Final Fantasy VII: Jenova Corona: Browser fan sequel set two years after Final Fantasy VII.
• Final Fantasy XI Adventure (Fan Demake): Game Boy-style browser demake of Final Fantasy XI.
• Final Fantasy XI Braver: Retro offline single-player RPG of over 100 hours set in Vana'diel.
• Final Fantasy: Age of WarMECH (Final Fantasy ROM hack): A new story in which four friends flee their destroyed hometown, hunted by the superboss WarMECH, with new weapons, spells and items.
• Final Fantasy: Sky Warriors: NES-style fan prequel to the first Final Fantasy.
• Fortress of Hell: RPG Maker JRPG in Aldorlea's catalog.
• Grond's Final Fantasy (Final Fantasy ROM hack): An overhaul of the NES Final Fantasy with a New Game Plus mode, dual-wielding Ninjas and Monks, saving from the menu and every known bug fixed.
• Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass: RPG Maker dream adventure with EarthBound and Yume Nikki influences.
• Last Dream: RPG Maker JRPG capturing classic Final Fantasy, with touches of Ultima IV.
• Memoria: Community-rewritten engine for the PC Final Fantasy IX that fixes bugs and opens it to mods.
• OpenVIII: MonoGame reimplementation of Final Fantasy VIII.
• Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3: 16-bit-style JRPG continuation of the Penny Arcade series.
• Q-Gears: Open-source engine effort to run Final Fantasy VII data.
• Rise of the Third Power: Pixel-art JRPG pitched as a love letter to Final Fantasy VI.
• Shadows of Adam: Kickstarted 16-bit style RPG.
• The Book of Legends: Standalone 16-bit-style RPG Maker JRPG from Aldorlea.
• Undefeated: First official RPG Maker game ported from PC to mobile.
• xvibit (Final Fantasy XVI SNES demake): SNES-style demake of the Final Fantasy XVI demo.
• Barony: First-person co-op roguelike inspired by Ultima Underworld and NetHack.
• Elona: Japanese freeware open-world roguelike inspired by ADOM, distributed only from its creator's site.
• Cosmic Star Heroine: Kickstarted sci-fi RPG modeled on Phantasy Star and Chrono Trigger.
• Phantasy Star 4: Re-Birth: GPL remake of Phantasy Star IV with the same story and enhanced graphics.
• Phantasy Star II (Amiga port): Unofficial Commodore Amiga port of Phantasy Star II built with the Scorpion Engine.
• Phantasy Star II: Evil Overlord (Phantasy Star II ROM hack): Reworks nearly every part of Phantasy Star II with a new storyline, new enemies, rebuilt equipment and shops, and a faster pace.
• Phantasy Star Online Unity Remake: Unity3D fan remake of Phantasy Star Online with a playable prototype.
• Phantasy Star... 20 Years Past: RPG Maker fan sequel set on Motavia twenty years after Phantasy Star IV.
• Pier Solar and the Great Architects: Homebrew Mega Drive RPG, later remastered as Pier Solar HD.
• The Dahlia Project: RPG Maker reimagining of Phantasy Star III with modern refinements.
• coab (Curse of the Azure Bonds engine recreation): Engine recreation of the Gold Box game Curse of the Azure Bonds.
• Dungeon Craft: Engine for building Gold Box style adventures.
• Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown: Seven-member party crawler modeled on Might and Magic III to V.
• Pool of Radiance Remastered (Neverwinter Nights 2 module): Neverwinter Nights 2 module remaking the first Gold Box game, praised as faithful by fans.
• ATOM RPG: Kickstarted Soviet post-apocalyptic RPG modeled on Fallout.
• Broken Roads: Australian post-apocalyptic RPG in the classic isometric style.
• A Spring Meal: Food-collecting browser RPG.
• Athenian Rhapsody: Indie RPG about friendliness and bullet-hell dodging.
• Citizens of Earth: Comedic RPG pitched as an EarthBound successor.
• Cubenen Gardens: Befriend: RPG about Michael's quest to befriend a bear.
• Dreamed Away: Cute pixel-art RPG with a dark story.
• Grimm's Hollow: Spooky freeware RPG about searching the afterlife for a brother.
• Halloween Hack (EarthBound ROM hack): A dark EarthBound hack by the future creator of Undertale, with a new story and boss fights.
• Imagination Heights: Turn-based browser RPG about kids on an imagination-fueled adventure.
• Knuckle Sandwich: EarthBound-style RPG where battles are played as microgames.
• LISA: The Painful: Bleak post-apocalyptic side-scrolling RPG with EarthBound-style combat.
• MagiCats! in: Rousalie and the Infinite Sadness: Turn-based RPG about magical cats.
• Moonchild: Turn-based RPG about four children saving the world from aliens.
• MOTHER: Encore: Fan remake of the first Mother in EarthBound's engine style.
• Oddity: Long-running fan Mother 4 project reworked into an original EarthBound-style RPG; still unreleased.
• Omori: Kickstarted psychological horror RPG drawing on EarthBound.
• She Dreams Elsewhere: Surreal adventure RPG about dreams and reality.
• Soma Spirits: Rebalance: Choice-driven JRPG, first of a duology.
• Space Funeral: Surreal freeware RPG Maker parody by thecatamites.
• The Adventures of Green Guy!: RPG inspired by EarthBound and Zelda.
• Undertale: Kickstarted RPG inspired by Mother/EarthBound.
• Yes Noterday: Quirky EarthBound-inspired RPG.
• YIIK: A Postmodern RPG: Surreal 1999-set RPG openly modeled on EarthBound.

The classics

• Akalabeth: World of Doom (1980)
• Rogue (1980)
• Ultima (1981)
• Dungeons of Daggorath (1982)
• Sword of Fargoal (1982)
• Telengard (1982)
• Tunnels of Doom (1982)
• Moria (1983)
• Dragon Slayer (1984)
• Hydlide (1984)
• Questron (1984)
• Sundog: Frozen Legacy (1984)
• The Black Onyx (1984)
• Alternate Reality (1985)
• Autoduel (1985)
• Phantasie (1985)
• Wizard's Crown (1985)
• Dragon Quest (1986)
• Starflight (1986)
• Final Fantasy (1987)
• Megami Tensei (1987)
• NetHack (1987)
• Phantasy Star (1987)
• The Faery Tale Adventure (1987)
• Ys (1987)
• Gold Box (AD&D) (1988)
• Wasteland (1988)
• Mother (EarthBound) (1989)
• SaGa (1989)
• The Legend of Heroes (1989)