These are hybrid and cross-genre RPGs, including interactive storybook adventures. Others are puzzle, card or jewel-match games with certain RPG elements such as quests or special equipment you can earn. Others are essentially RPGs that use a puzzle or arcade mechanic for combat, or strategy sims with a strong RPG element. This category includes games that RPG lovers will probably enjoy, even if they’re not exactly RPGs, or pure RPGs.
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Fishing Paradiso
Fishing Paradiso is a beautiful retro pixel art narrative game with a fishing minigame. The RPG elements come from the different quests you can do and earning money from fishing
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Troll Patrol
Troll Patrol is a very slick match-3 RPG. It has been compared to Dungeon Raid and will definitely be enjoyed by those who like tile/jewel-match RPGs. Play as the last
![Rune Sword](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/rune-sword-1b.jpg)
Rune Sword
Rune Sword is a slick puzzle RPG where you do the usual thing of matching swords to hurt the enemy, and avoid matching skulls so they can't harm you. When
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Tower of Fortune 4
Tower of Fortune 4 is Game Stew's latest instalment in its slot-mechanic RPG series. Unlike the earlier three you're travelling across the world, not just climbing a tower. You play
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Phrased Out
An RPG-trivia quiz hybrid, this quirky little game uses a hangman-style game for its battle dynamic, which promises "a mystery that unfolds as you play". You get to choose the
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Dungeon Village 2
A sequel to Kairosoft's 2012 RPG-Sim hybrid, Dungeon Village, this sequel is essentially more of the same. You build a village, which attracts adventurers whom you can send out to
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Survival Island 1&2
Survival Island 1&2 is an escape RPG where you collect and combine various items, gradually building better tools, until you can repair a boat and escape the island. Initially you
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Harvest Town – Pixel Sim RPG
Harvest Town is very obviously inspired by Stardew Valley and some players appear to prefer it. It's very detailed and feature rich and has a lot of top ratings (40,000+
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Moonlighter
Moonlighter is half shop-management game, and half dungeon-diving to collect wares for your shop. It has been described as ticking many of the same boxes as Stardew Valley, so fans
![Forager](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/forager-1024x576.jpg)
Forager
Forager is a superb retro-style open world game "inspired by your favourite exploration, farming and crafting games" - for that you can read "Stardew Valley". You gather resources and gradually
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Survival RPG 3:Lost in time 2d
Survival RPG 3:Lost in time 2d is the third instalment in the excellent crafting-progression series, that begins with The lost treasure followed by Temple ruins. This time you switch between
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Kingdom Adventures
Kingdom Adventures could be an absolutely amazing game. Unfortunately, the "Freemium" model has been taken to the extreme, and it's rarely that I've come across a game with such gouging
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Harvest Moon: Light of Hope
Harvest Moon: Light of Hope is a hybrid RPG farming sim in the vein of Stardew Valley. There's a lot of farming, fishing and mining as well as seasons to
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Survival RPG 2:Temple ruins 2d
Survival RPG 2:Temple ruins 2d is the sequel to The lost treasure. Described as a "Stranded fantasy exploration", like the first game it involves a lot of foraging and crafting
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Survival RPG: Lost treasure 2d
Survival RPG: The lost treasure is a free 2d survival exploration retro RPG game that combines adventure, escape, fantasy in a 2D pixel art universe. The game includes dungeon exploration,
![PictoQuest](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/pictoquest.jpg)
PictoQuest
PictoQuest is a puzzle RPG with the combat based on picture grids. Each grid either fights an enemy, or opens a chest, or is some sort of challenge ("time limit"/"no
![Graveyard Keeper](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/graveyard-keeper-300x138.jpg)
Graveyard Keeper
Graveyard Keeper is a Stardew Valley-inspired "medieval cemetery management sim". You have to build and manage your own graveyard, and expand into other ventures, while finding shortcuts to cut costs.
![Rule with an Iron Fish](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/iron-fish.jpg)
Rule with an Iron Fish
Rule with an Iron Fish is a super slick pirate fishing RPG. You unlock different zones to fish for various different fish and sea creatures, as well as fighting tentacles
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TAP! DIG! MY MUSEUM!
TAP! DIG! MY MUSEUM! is a great fun, unusual little RPG Sim where you unearth dinosaur bones and develop a museum. You level up your spade, as well as the
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Quest Town Saga
Quest Town Saga is a typical Kairosoft hybrid SIM-town builder-RPG. It doesn't have the best ratings on iTunes compared to other Kairo games, possibly because of all the freemium elements
![Beastie Bay](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/beastie-bay-1.jpg)
Beastie Bay
Beastie Bay is a brilliant Kairosoft monster catching RPG and town sim, where you gradually explore different islands and capture territory and monsters, while designing and growing your resort and
![Devil Shard](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/devil-shard.jpg)
Devil Shard
Devil Shard is an amazing match-3 RPG from Game Stew, the devs of the very popular Tower of Fortune series as well as Hell Raider. This time instead of a
![Card Crawl](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/shot1-169x300.jpg)
Card Crawl
Card Crawl is a card-based dungeon crawler: "a solitaire-style dungeon crawler game played with a modified deck of standard cards." You clear the dungeon of 54 cards by using item-cards, slaying
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Hell Raider – Wheel of Fate
Hell Raider - Wheel of Fate is a marvellous game from the Tower of Fortune devs. This time the mechanic is a wheel-of-fortune type device where you have to stop
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Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley is as amazing as all the hype makes out. It's a farming-SIM RPG - if that sounds boring it's really not, you can even ignore farming crops altogether
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Tiny Dice Dungeon
Tiny Dice Dungeon is a free RPG where you collect and forge dice to battle enemies, and catch monsters that will fight alongside you. As well as basic combat dice,
![Good Knight Story](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/YETI.jpg)
Good Knight Story
Good Knight Story is a slick jewel-match RPG where you "solve puzzles, battle monsters and survive bad jokes as you piece together events from the night before". It's free, with
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Evoland 2
I wanted to love Evoland 2 because I adored the original instalment, Evoland, but unfortunately the sequel is as much of a platformer as an Action RPG - and it's
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You Must Build a Boat
You Must Build A Boat is a hybrid match-3 puzzle RPG that's slick and feature rich. It's by the makers of so if you enjoyed that, you'll love this. You gradually
![Ninja Village](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ninja-village-169x300.jpg)
Ninja Village
Ninja Village is a Kairosoft game so expect some familiar faces, such as Bearington and Chimpan Z. If you're already a fan of Kairosoft games you'll enjoy this - they're
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Reigns: King & Queen
It's hard to categorise Reigns and Reign: Her Majesty, but they're most like a Gamebook with a swipe/"Tinder"-style interface. Swipe right usually pleases the person who is requesting something, and
![Solitairica](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/520x293bb-11.jpg)
Solitairica
Solitairica is a hybrid RPG, this time using a version of the card game Patience or Solitaire as the combat mechanic. It's very slickly made, and works rather like a
![Tower of Fortune 3](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/392x696bb-2.jpg)
Tower of Fortune 3
Tower of Fortune has gone full colour for the third instalment of the series, and it looks beautiful while keeping the overall retro style. There's still the tavern with its
![Nocked!](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/nocked-300x165.jpg)
Nocked!
Nocked! is a gamebook adventure-style interactive fiction game, with resources management. It's wonderfully written and has incredible detail and depth. It's a really interesting and engaging story, with optional "romances"
![Tower of Fortune 2](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/392x696bb-6.jpg)
Tower of Fortune 2
Tower of Fortune 2, the sequel to Tower of Fortune, is a role playing game with combat mechanics drawn from slot machines. You’ll need to earn money to progress, by
![TacWars](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/520x293bb.jpg)
TacWars
TacWars is a Match 3 Puzzle game where you need to "match tokens creatively" to beat your enemy. Wins will give you experience and help you strengthen your army, lending
![Dawn of Crafting](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/dawn-of-crafting-229x300.jpg)
Dawn of Crafting
Dawn of Crafting is a slick crafting-based RPG that’s huge in scope. You start making the most basic tools and progress to more complex tools and constructions, while having to
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Choice of Broadsides
Choice of Broadsides is an interactive adventure that fuses a "choose-your-own-adventure" with a text RPG. It's much more than just a book: choices you make will affect later plot points,
![Sorcerer of Fortune](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Sorcerer-of-Fortune.jpg)
Sorcerer of Fortune
Sorceror of Fortune is a puzzle RPG with "match three gems" battles. It has great graphics, there's loads of different gear to buy, and forty different characters to unlock. Apparently
![Dungeon Scroll](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/dungeon-scroll-300x199.jpg)
Dungeon Scroll
Dungeon Scroll is a puzzle RPG that uses word games as its mechanic. You fight monsters by forming words, which the game calls "casting spells". Longer words do more damage
![Adventure Bar Story](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/adventure-bar-story-300x169.jpg)
Adventure Bar Story
Adventure Bar Story is best described as a SIM RPG - you progress the story by running a restaurant and cooking different recipes for it. Each day you choose a
![Dungeon Village](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/dungeon-village-169x300.jpg)
Dungeon Village
Dungeon Village is a town SIM RPG from Kairosoft: you build up your town, and earn money off adventurers coming through. You then use that money to buy them better
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10000000
10000000 is a Bejewelled-style dungeon-crawler hybrid that has been a runaway success, with its retro style graphics and music. You match-three tiles in a fast-paced game, to hit monsters with
![Epic Astro Story](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/epic-astro-story-android-1-300x169.jpg)
Epic Astro Story
Epic Astro Story is another Kairosoft game: games which kind of exist in a hybrid genre all of their own: strategy adventure SIM RPGs might be one way to describe them.
![Tower of Fortune](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/tower-of-fortune-169x300.jpg)
Tower of Fortune
Tower of Fortune is a role playing game with combat mechanics drawn from slot machines. You'll need to earn money to progress, by microtransactions or fighting monsters. There are four
![King Cashing 2](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/king-cashing-2-300x138.jpg)
King Cashing 2
The original King Cashing was a smash hit game, cleverly using slot-machine mechanics to create an RPG. King Cashing 2 is more of the same and better, using a comic-book
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Kairobotica
Kairobotica is another fascinating little hybrid Sim RPG from Kairosoft. This time with a space exploration and robots theme, you’ll encounter many of the usual features and familiar faces. Where
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Hero Emblems
Hero Emblems is a Match3 RPG with JRPG features. It’s a hugely long game with a satisfyingly large game map. The mechanic feels really RPG like, not match-3 like: you
![High Sea Saga](https://rpg-site.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/high-sea-saga-169x300.jpg)
High Sea Saga
High Sea Saga is another Kairosoft game so expect the usual faces (Sally Prin, Kairobot, etc). This is the closest yet perhaps to a pure RPG: there’s very little in