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Slow-start RPGs that reward your patience

Role-playing games with a slow opening, where players turn positive around hour 5 or later.

95–98%positive reviews
30games in the collection
  1. 1 Look Outside Adventure2025 98% by hour 5 · positive
  2. 2 Well Dweller Action2026 98% by hour 7 · positive
  3. 3 Minishoot' Adventures Action2024 98% by hour 7 · positive
  4. 4 Persona 4 Golden RPG2020 97% by hour 10 · positive
  5. 5 Hylics 2 RPG2020 97% by hour 5 · positive
  6. 6 Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling Action2019 97% by hour 20 · positive
  7. 7 Murders on the Yangtze River Adventure2024 97% by hour 5 · positive
  8. 8 In Stars And Time RPG2023 97% by hour 15 · positive
  9. 9 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered RPG2015 96% by hour 10 · positive
  10. 10 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist Indie2022 96% by hour 7 · positive
  11. 11 Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale RPG2010 96% by hour 7 · positive
  12. 12 Small Saga Adventure2023 96% by hour 7 · positive
  13. 13 Fallout: New Vegas Action2010 96% by hour 7 · positive
  14. 14 God of War Action2022 96% by hour 10 · positive
  15. 15 Charlie Murder Action2017 96% by hour 5 · positive
  16. 16 Magical Girl Celesphonia Adventure2022 96% by hour 7 · positive
  17. 17 Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition Adventure2017 96% by hour 10 · positive
  18. 18 Last Command Action2022 96% by hour 7 · positive
  19. 19 Unavowed Adventure2018 96% by hour 7 · positive
  20. 20 Silver Pines Action2026 96% by hour 10 · positive
  21. 21 PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo Adventure2023 96% by hour 7 · positive
  22. 22 Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate RPG2025 96% by hour 7 · positive
  23. 23 King Exit Adventure2017 95% by hour 10 · positive
  24. 24 Little Goody Two Shoes Adventure2023 95% by hour 10 · positive
  25. 25 LISA: The Painful Adventure2014 95% by hour 5 · positive
  26. 26 Bastion Action2011 95% by hour 5 · positive
  27. 27 Cat Quest III Action2024 95% by hour 7 · positive
  28. 28 The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition RPG2009 95% by hour 10 · positive
  29. 29 Supraland Action2019 95% by hour 7 · positive
  30. 30 Dust: An Elysian Tail Action2013 95% by hour 5 · positive

Based on Steam reviews, 245 games made the cut: player sentiment only evens out after hour 5, and overall at least 85% of reviews are positive. RPGs only.

The typical turning point here is around hour 10, and for 131 of the 245 it comes only after hour 10. The most common genres are adventure, action, strategy.

In RPGs a slow start often comes with the genre: the intro, learning the systems and building a character take time, while the story and your build start paying off later. These are the games where that investment paid off according to player reviews.

The safest bets are at the top: Look Outside (by hour 5), Well Dweller (by hour 7), Minishoot' Adventures (by hour 7).