Alongside our Game of the Year top 10 list and personal picks from the Push Square editorial team, we are recognising the best PS5 games of 2025 in select categories. Today is the turn of the best PS5 RPG of 2025.
Bronze Trophy: The Outer Worlds 2
In The Outer Worlds 2, developer Obsidian is all about player choice. The game lets you craft your character any way you want, lean into the skills and perks you choose, and then allows you to pick up further traits based on the way you play. It's a reactive experience full of decisions, better combat compared to the first game, and more worlds to explore. The Outer Worlds 2 is a solid follow-up that leans into all the hallmarks of what it means to be a proper RPG.
Read our The Outer Worlds 2 PS5 review through the link.
Silver Trophy: Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter
Finally, there's a definitive place to start the Trails series from Nihon Falcom. The developer went all the way back to the start for a Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter remake that modernises the debut story, and it makes for one of the best JRPG experiences in 2025.
You'll learn to love its cast of characters, enjoy its slow but strong world-building, and enjoy the adventure along the way. It's a breezy JRPG for the most part, but when the action kicks up, Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter impresses in so many ways. You finally know where to begin if you've ever had an interest in the many, many titles that come after it.
Read our Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter PS5 review through the link.
Gold Trophy: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Sandfall Interactive made turn-based combat cool again with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33; a feat once only possible for industry titans like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. With an amazing cast of characters, a gripping storyline, and many wondrous locations, the debut title has captured the hearts of so many in 2025.
While there's little in the way of player choice (outside of the ending), Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 embodies the RPG genre with a flashy, engaging combat system based on parrying. The twisting, engrossing plot wraps around it, then peaks with its characters. In terms of telling a set narrative, there's nothing better than Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 this year.
Read our Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 PS5 review through the link.
Platinum Trophy: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
Warhorse Studios' RPG sequel Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is just about everything you could possibly want out of an RPG experience. With systems and mechanics bursting at their seams, you can live a genuine medieval life: get a job, a house, and help or hinder townsfolk as you seek to regain your fame.
There are two gigantic maps to explore, packed to the rafters with quests and side activities, multiple ways of levelling up protagonist Henry, and features you simply don't see in any other kind of RPG. Where else must you consider how clean you are before performing an act? Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is the pinnacle of RPG adventuring in 2025.
Read our Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 PS5 review through the link.
Do you agree with our picks for the best PS5 RPG of 2025? Share your thoughts in the comments below and check out more of our Game of the Year coverage through the link.
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I haven't played KCD2, but the depth of outcomes and consequences that some of the side missions I've seen have blew me away.
Finally some justice to KCD2. This to me is what a RPG should be. Changing your pictos doesn't make it a actual RPG in my eyes.
Exactly my order of arrangement. KCDII is just so on point with the RPG. You can't just go to a grindstone and tap X to enhance your sword. You gotta sit and grind all edges yourself! You can't just tap X to brew potions, you gotta grind with pestle and mortar, work the bellows and actually cook! 😄 . You are no superhero, you can't take on 3 or more enemies yourself. This is the immersion we're talking about.
@TheArt I love the little details I've seen like getting chastised by guards for not carrying a lit torch at night or getting knocked off your horse by a low branch. I'd gladly trade fancy graphics for those fun, immersive little things in an RPG any day of the week.
I prefer The Witcher 3, that game is already more than 10 years old, OMG.
@RBMango And that's why KCD2 is special, cause it does it with fancy graphics. Yes most of its RPG elements can be found in other RPGs, difference is, it does it with a crazy level of immersion and realistic graphics. If there's ever an award for UI and Menu design, KCD2 takes that too. The way the map changes to different artworks for every town is so cool, the art in the codex pages, the design of items in inventory. Your life bar and that of the enemy you're currently fighting, your stamina, horse stamina etc is simplified and tucked neatly in that same bar below the screen. It just saddens me when hard work isn't appreciated, I'm just glad so far PCGamer has made it its GOTY.
Kcd2 might be the best rpg of all time.
Kingdom come is the type of game big studios detest! The game has so much depth that the aaa devs don’t want to include into games. They would rather spend the budget on new grass tech or how the clothing is so detailed.
The things that actually matter are neglected by the failing big devs and publishers
As an RPG fan, not really my year in the genre. Nothing on this list is something I wanna play.
This is more indicative of reality. E33 is a great rpg (major points for being turn based!), but it’s simply outclassed by KCD2.
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