22 Games Like Dungeon Siege
Our selection of games like Dungeon Siege has other role playing games that let you put a party together or explore as a sole hero as you hunt down randomised loot and complete quests
The Dungeon Siege series started in 2002 and delivers a party based role playing franchise that combines strong stories, deep character customisation and randomised loot together into a single adventure. The series explores the Continent of Aranna and the battle between good and evil that shapes the game world and your role in the centre of it. With a traditional fantasy world of varied races, deserts, swamps, mounts and jungles it's a diverse role playing franchise.
With each title in the series building on the core hack and slash adventure the games grew increasingly complex allowing players to craft their own ideal party of adventurers with a wide range of skills. With your wandering party players explore the open landscapes, accept quests and acquire strength through experience and randomised equipment. While primarily a single player adventure the Dungeon Siege series has constantly offered a multiplayer component for co-operative gameplay.
The games like Dungeon Siege here focus on other party based role playing games that give you plenty of customisation over a team of characters or allow you to play through a campaign with friends.
Drakensang Online
Drakensang Online started as a free to play browser based game that offers similar gameplay to the classic action role playing games of days long past. With the retirement of Flash and Java support within modern browsers though Drakensang Online is now entirely available through the small game client for Windows. Opting for 4 playable classes players can tackle the Drakensang Online game world as a Dragonknight, Spellweaver, Ranger or Steam Mechanicus with further customisation for gender, ethn...[Read Review]
Divinity: Original Sin
Divinity: Original Sin offers solo and co-operative gameplay that blends fantasy, strategy and role playing together within a single universe. Marking the fourth title in this franchise of titles players familiar with Divinity will find themselves within familiar territory while still being approachable to the first time Divinity player. With a living and breathing game world you can make a name for yourself and direct the course of this adventure one tactical turn at a time. Set in a game world...[Read Review]
Divine Divinity
Divine Divinity takes place in a fantasy world and offers a traditional single player RPG experience released in 2003 with its success leading to several sequels with similar gameplay. Focused on taking players through an impressive story based experience with pairs with a large game world and hack and slash combat there is a wealth of Divine Divinity content to explore. Your setting for this adventure is a dark fantasy world with players caught in the middle of a battle between good and evil. T...[Read Review]
Drakensang: The Dark Eye
Drakensang: The Dark Eye takes players to a dark fantasy world while challenging you to create your own party of adventurers. Taking on a number of quests throughout your travels players will explore the land of Aventuria as they aim to survive and help those they encounter along the way from darkness. Released in 2008 Drakensang: The Dark Eye is a classic in the party role playing genre and also serves as the first adventure of many in this franchise. In terms of setting players will find thems...[Read Review]
Grim Dawn
Grim Dawn is a dark themed action RPG akin to the likes of the popular games in the genre (Diablo and Titan Quest) that seeks to build on the fundamentals that these well known titles have mastered. Released in 2016 your setting for this ARPG is a blended apocalyptic and fantasy world where humans are nearly extinct and fighting over the limited resources that remain with plenty of opportunity for players to establish a name for the complex dual class character you develop. Set in the dark and w...[Read Review]
Diablo II: Resurrected
Diablo II: Resurrected beckons players to return to the world of Diablo II once more with a remastered version of the original addicting action role playing experience that spawned a generation of similar titles. Crafted over two decades ago the world of Sanctuary has changed little mechanically with this release opting to take the remaster route rather than remaking the formula that saw some players never stop fighting the demons of Hell and chasing their holy grail goals of finding every uniqu...[Read Review]
Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free to play action role playing game that draws plenty of comparison to the Diablo series and in particular Diablo 2 for its similar dark and foreboding atmosphere that has players starting from scraps to fighting against uber monsters with legendary gear. Path of Exile has been widely praised as capturing the best of the Diablo franchise and expanding on it with its own unique and well-polished ideas particularly in the department of character customisation and depth. Develo...[Read Review]
Sacred
Sacred is a 2004 action role playing game for Windows with a dark atmosphere and a wide selection of class options for players to explore the fantasy world of Ancaria with. Further expanded with a single expansion pack (Sacred Underworld) these were combined into a bundled pack titled Sacred Gold. Sacred takes place on the continent known as Ancaria which is populated by a large number of towns with wilderness in between where evil and other dark creatures grow. Unlike other action RPGs a large ...[Read Review]
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
Borrowing from the vast lore and mythology of Van Helsing and turning it into a game franchise is Neocore Games with their appropriately titled series, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing. Announced in 2012 through a number of gameplay and teaser trailers that depicted dark magic, terrifying vampires and a strong gothic influence the game officially launched in 2013 for the PC market later joining consoles in 2015 (Xbox One) and 2017 (PS4) respectively. Promising a mechanically refined real...[Read Review]
Throne of Darkness
Combining the action role playing genre of Diablo with a unique Japanese setting is Throne of Darkness, a game released by Sierra Entertainment in 2001 that lets you play as your own deadly samurai character. Exploring a setting not adventured before by the action RPG genre Throne of Darkness stands out in the genre for the medieval Japan story. Set in Yamato Throne of Darkness places you in a world controlled by shogun Tsunayoshi who shares power with the leaders of the four clans. In order to ...[Read Review]
Torchlight
Torchlight is an action role playing adventure developed by Runic Games that was first released in 2009 and eventually console in 2011. Providing a single player adventure with a casual take on the genre players help the town of Torchlight with their troubles that require you to fight, acquire loot and develop your own unique character in the process. The setting for your adventure is the town known as Torchlight which is a mining town built on top of a rich vein of the mysterious Ember resource...[Read Review]
Torchlight 2
Torchlight 2 serves as a 2012 sequel to Torchlight (2009) that allows players to again adventure into fantasy world alone or this time with friends. Selecting from your choice of 4 different characters each brings their own playstyle specialty to the countless enemies and bosses you will face along the way to complete your quest. Inspired by the likes of Diablo and other games in the action RPG genre you’ll find a similar adventure although one stripped down to the basics while adding some...[Read Review]
Titan Quest
Titan Quest is a popular action role-playing game originally released in 2006 for Windows with a 2007 expansion titled Immortal Throne. Since this original release the game has been reborn with additional content and expanded to modern day consoles through an Anniversary Edition. Featuring the same core experience this refreshed edition improves your multiplayer experience, squashes some bugs, balances items, improves enemy AI, new bosses to battle and a range of quality of life enhancements. In...[Read Review]
Kings Road
Kings Road is a browser based online RPG dungeon crawler and joins the increasing number of titles that aim to combine Diablo style gameplay with lite MMO features. The game was developed by Rumble Entertainment with a release in March 2013 with subsequent releases on Android and iOS mobile platforms. In terms of storyline Kings Road is what you would expect with players playing a role in removing the darkness from the world that has slowly grown over time to consume the game world (known as Ald...[Read Review]
Vikings – Wolves of Midgard
Even with a wealth of video game content to explore in the gaming industry the number of games that explore Norse mythology in detail are still somewhat limited and even more so in the action RPG genre in particular. Vikings: Wolves of Midgard aims to counter this trend though with a Diablo inspired title that draws on the cold Viking history and myths from their time for inspiration. Central to this is the familiar story of Ragnarok where the legends talk about the coldest winter ever known at ...[Read Review]
Fate
Fate is the first in a series of single player action role playing games released in 2005. With a simple but enjoyable formula that was market leading on release Fate acquired a number of video game awards alongside a loyal cult like following which continued with three sequels released in 2008 (Undiscovered Realms), 2009 (The Traitor Soul) and 2011 (The Cursed King). Adventuring from the town of Grove players find themselves on the edge of a dungeon gate that hides treasure and fame for those b...[Read Review]
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel is the second game in the action RPG series and serves as a prequel to the story as it sends players back over 2,000 years to explore the origins of the fantasy world. Like the original Sacred title this game offers players a diverse game map with plenty of locations to explore with their choice of role playing character. Expanding the base game further an expansion pack (Ice and Blood) adds a further two game regions to conquer, an additional character to experience and a...[Read Review]
Victor Vran
With a Van Helsing inspired setting that combines science and magic together into its game world Victor Vran is an action RPG that focuses on bringing more mobility to your character than other titles in the genre. Starting its life as a computer based title the game was ported to PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch under the name Victor Vran: Overkill Edition which included the games two additional DLCs (also available for computer players). Playing as Victor Vran you’ll step into the shoes...[Read Review]
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II
Pick up your wide brimmed hat and step right back into the shoes of the Van Helsing legacy with The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II, a game that builds on the solid foundations of the original to offer a similarly impressive action RPG experience alongside a number of refinements. Just like the original adventure the game is available separately or as part of The Final Cut edition which combines all 3 core games and additional content into an altered single game experience. Your class fo...[Read Review]
Icewind Dale II
Icewind Dale II expands the game mechanics of the original successful role playing title allowing players once again to lead a party of customised adventurers through various trials. Released in 2002 (2 years after Icewind Dale) players will be exploring the fantasy Forgotten Realms with a band of mercenary heroes that are surrounded by a war of religion and race. With real time playing an even greater critical role in this addition to the franchise players once again have an action packed journ...[Read Review]
Diablo III
Diablo III (Diablo 3) is an action RPG experience that was long awaited by fans of the series with many years having past since Diablo 2. Launching in May 2012 with an expansion pack (Reaper of Souls) in 2014 and a second ( Rise of the Necromancer) in 2017 the game continues the story of angels, demons and humans in Sanctuary while featuring a mix of new and returning cast of characters. Players will choose from one of five character classes (seven with all of the available expansion packs) and ...[Read Review]
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing III
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing returns again for a series ending third instalment in the dark atmospheric action RPG franchise. Building on the unique setting, story and humour established by the past titles the third release also mixes up a number of components, most notably the available classes and their associated skill tree options. The setting for The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing III remains the same though with Borgovia central to a plot that revolves around cults and fa...[Read Review]