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As Commander Shepard, you lead your Normandy crew across the galaxy chasing a rogue Spectre in a landmark sci-fi RPG built around its dialogue wheel, companion bonds and choices that carry into the sequels. Combat is real-time cover shooting with pausable squad powers.
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Obsidian's satirical first-person sci-fi RPG drops you into a new colony system rife with corporate absurdity, where dialogue choices, skills and even character flaws meaningfully shape your path. Opinionated companions and dark humor make every decision entertaining.
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Choices with consequences
A sci-fi action RPG on Mars where you play a young Technomancer wielding electric powers and three combat stances. Conversations and decisions shape your relationships with companions and factions amid the war over water.
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Choices with consequences
Obsidian's satirical space RPG drops you into a corporate-run colony where your dialogue choices and allegiances decide the fate of its factions. Biting humor, likeable companions and first-person gunplay define the experience.
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A bleak survival horror adventure set in a photogrammetry-recreated Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where a physicist hunts for his vanished fiancée. You scavenge zones, build up a base, recruit companions and plan toward a final heist, with choices you can even rewrite reshaping the story.
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A party of several characters
Stranded worker Jan clones alternate versions of himself, each shaped by a different life choice, and must manage them in a mobile base while racing a lethal sunrise. It's survival management fused with a thoughtful drama about identity and roads not taken.
86 %
Choices with consequences
A Star Wars MMORPG that stands out for its fully voiced, class-specific BioWare-style storylines, with light-or-dark-side choices and companions who react to your decisions. Group flashpoints, raids and PvP round out the online experience.
86 %
Choices with consequences
A post-apocalyptic RPG set in the Mojave, where rival factions vie for control of Vegas and your choices, dialogue and skills decide the fate of the whole region. Sharp writing, dark humor and huge freedom in how quests unfold make it a genre classic.
86 %
A party of several characters
BioWare's classic Star Wars RPG lets you walk the light or dark side millennia before the films, backed by a crew of memorable companions and one of gaming's most famous plot twists.
85 %
Choices with consequences
A narrative sci-fi RPG where you play an artificial human, using a dice system to manage scarce resources and survive among the settlements of the Starward Belt. The sequel adds a customizable ship, recruitable crew and risky contracts that reward careful planning.
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Strong character progression
Bethesda's space RPG lets you roam hundreds of star systems as a custom character, building ships, chasing faction questlines and landing on countless planets. Classic Bethesda freedom meets a grounded NASA-punk look, though the procedural worlds can feel sparse.
