General News - RPG of the Year 2020 @ Gamespot

Gamespot have listed their highest rated RPGs of 2020:

Here is GameSpot's roundup of 2020's best RPGs across different platforms.

Throughout its history, the role-playing game genre has offered some of the more complex pieces of storytelling and gameplay within the medium of games. In 2020, the RPG genre hit some notable strides with some great releases. Along with the revival of the legendary JRPG Final Fantasy VII with its remake, we also saw other games lean further into the craft of letting players chart their own stories and character dynamics in games like Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Crusader Kings III.

In the following roundup, you can find a selection of RPGs that GameSpot has rated an 8 and above throughout 2020. This year proved to be a remarkable year for the RPG genre, and the games we've pulled together below take the familiar tenets of the genre and reincorporate them in some exciting ways.

• 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim - 9/10
• Assassin’s Creed Valhalla - 8/10
• Crusader Kings III - 8/10
• Demon's Souls - 9/10
• Destiny 2: Beyond Light - 8/10
• Final Fantasy VII Remake - 10/10
• Hades - 9/10
• Moon - 8/10
• Mortal Shell - 8/10
• Nioh 2 - 8/10
• Paper Mario: The Origami King - 8/10
• Persona 5 Royal - 10/10
• Risk of Rain 2 - 8/10
• Star Renegades - 8/10
• XCOM: Chimera Squad - 8/10
• Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition - 9/10
• Yakuza: Like a Dragon - 9/10

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