Over 90 hours long, with more than 70 quests, Divinity: Original Sin 2 was made to feel like a never-ending journey. Whether gamers have completed it and are prepared for another excursion or they still haven’t gotten around to it but want another fresh storyline, there are options for all.

This list showcases other games in the genre that excel in lore, combat, art style, and more. These isometric RPG’s lean towards roguelike action or tactical Dungeons and Dragons combat. Games like Divinity: Original Sin 2 are hard to come by, but there are some worthy competitors out there. There will never be a boring day in life with this many cRPGs to play.

19 Solasta: Crown of The Magister (Windows, MacOS)

  • Based On Dungeons & Dragons
  • Party based
  • Turn based combat

Solasta is an open world cRPG based on Dungeons & Dragons. It’s one of the more recent turn-based RPG’s with decent graphics, making it hard to not want to try. You control four different players and have access to a full character creator screen to make them as pretty or as ugly as you want.

Because the game uses the Dungeons & Dragons SRD 5.1 Ruleset, your actions and choices are based on dice rolls. Gameplay mechanics are tactical and complex so that every move you make matters and affects what happens.

18 Wildermyth (Windows, MacOS, Linux, Nintendo Switch)

  • Party based
  • Turn based combat
  • Choices matter

Wildermyth has a storybook aesthetic, where the graphics look like you’re flipping through pages out of a pop-up book. Instead of traversing through an open world via third person view, you’re clicking through maps and pages to advance your heroes stories.

The game has rougelite elements, where you’re constantly going through ruins and dungeons to take down monsters. It’s got procedural generation and heavy storytelling. When your heroes die, you get to reroll with the same hero, or you can let them die with honor.

17 Gloomhaven (Windows, MacOS)

  • Online co-op
  • Board game
  • Turn based combat

One of the more popular and recent party based RPG’s on the market, Gloomhaven limits your immersion to hex grids and board game mechanics when traversing through the game. Despite this, the game is 3D and full of life.

Gloomhaven is an ambitious cRPG based on an actual board game. You can choose from up to 17 different characters, all whom have over 1,000 abilities to unlock and master as you play through the game.

16 Wartales (Windows)

  • Turn based combat
  • Early access
  • Open world

Wartales throws you into a vast, open world experience with a birds eye view from your team. Instead of rolling a die and ending up somewhere on the map, you traverse with your party on foot. Find taverns to trade wares at and bump into new recruits.

There’s more freedom in Wartales because you can walk around and make a name for yourself. You don’t follow a D&D rulebook, every action you make isn’t tactical and complex. It’s an open world RPG with turn-based strategy.

15 Pathway (Windows, Classic Mac OS, Linux)

  • Turn based combat
  • Procedural generation
  • Roguelike

Divinity: Original Sin 2 is chock-full of great qualities. Some people favored the turn-based combat in particular. Every encounter could go in many different ways and involved strategy as well as luck. In Pathway, that’s exactly what’s expected of the player.

It’s a turn-based strategy gameset in the 1930s with a tabletop feel to it. Players get to travel through a map to their destination, read the lore, and get into battles. There’s a catch though: if the player dies, they have to start all over again. Luckily the heroes played with keep their experience no matter what!

14 Torment: Tides Of Numenera (Windows, Classic Mac OS, Linux)

  • Choices matter
  • Turn based combat
  • Isometric

Torment: Tides Of Numenera is another open-world RPG featuring a party and turn-based combat. It’s the second game following Planescape: Torment which was positively received. Some players have mixed feelings about Torment because it focuses more on the adventure and story rather than lots of action and challenges.

For anyone who enjoyed Divinity’s lore and wanted more mature stories to dive into, Torment is the game to play. Its content is very philosophical, where “Your words, choices, and actions are your primary weapons.”

13 Shadowrun: Hong Kong (Windows, OS X, Linux)

  • Turn based combat
  • Isometric
  • Cyberpunk

The Shadowrun franchise stays true to the combat and party system but offers a different approach when it comes to aesthetics and settings. Shadowrun gives players ’80s cyberpunk, with advanced technology and neon lights galore.

In Shadowrun: Hong Kong, the player controls a character who used to make money on the streets of Hong Kong, but who left that all behind until their father-like figure sends a worrisome message to the player and their brother figure. With a newfound party, the player travels through an unregulated Hong Kong set in the future.

In the wake of Cyberpunk 2077’s colossally botched release, the Shadowrun franchise and a few other games may scratch that cyberpunk itch instead.

12 Path Of Exile (Windows, Xbox One, PS4, macOS, Macintosh Operating Systems)

  • Free
  • Online co-op
  • Dungeon crawler

This game is more similar to the mechanics of an RPG like Divinity due to the HUD interface filled with potions, powers, and health. It’s a dark fantasy adventure where the player controls an exile (shocking!) who seeks revenge.

A big difference between this game and the others is that Path Of Exile is free-to-play and it’s developers vow to never make it a pay-to-win journey.

11 Dragon Age: Origins (Windows, Xbox 360, PS3, Classic Mac OS)

  • Choices matter
  • Party based
  • Optional tactical combat

Dragon Age is a classic fantasy tale that has three major games now. The first one, Dragon Age: Origins, takes the cake with looking and feeling more like a regular RPG than the other games in the franchise.

It’s a franchise and game filled to the brim with original lore and a fully developed world for players to explore. Players can customize their character from physical looks to the powers and weapons they yield as they tread through a Dark Spawn apocalypse and nationwide war. This is more of an adventurous experience where you can romance companions and change political tides.

Don’t forget: Dragon Age 4 is in development with plenty of fan theories to keep people busy until its release.

10 Pathfinder: Kingmaker (Windows, Classic Mac OS, Linux)

  • Party based
  • Turn based combat
  • Open world

Pathfinder is originally a tabletop role-playing game, but developers were able to make it an isometric PC game with the help of Kickstarters. The visuals of the game highlight effervescent bright lights that create a magical atmosphere and include the action and story gamers really want.

The player controls a party and explores vast lands in the hopes of creating a kingdom for themselves and recruiting anyone possible. The developers have listened to fan’s suggestions and criticisms plenty and have put out an enhanced edition in accordance.

9 Baldur’s Gate II (Windows Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PS4, Linux, macOS, Android)

  • Party based
  • Dungeons and Dragons
  • Online co-op

Taking it back to the OG gaming roots, Baldur’s Gate is reminiscent of games like Fallout 1 and 2 with its graphics and simple HUD. Baldur’s Gate II is a continuation of the adventure started in the first game.

The player treads through medieval catastrophe with the challenging question of whether to be good or to give in to evil. The game brings players simplicity so that they can focus on their own adventure, choices, and lore of the world.

8 Pillars Of Eternity (Windows, Linux, Macintosh Operating Systems)

  • Party based
  • Open world
  • Optional tactical mode

Pillars Of Eternity was created by the same developers who did Fallout: New Vegas and other successful RPG games like The Outer Worlds. This is an open-world fantasy where the player’s choices matter and exploration has never been so extensive.

In this game, players can choose to be human, elf, dwarf, or things more unknown like Aumaua, Orlan, and Godlike races. It is definitely worth checking out if players need to scratch that Divinity itch.

7 Masquerada: Songs And Shadows (Windows Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One, Linux, Classic Mac OS, Macintosh Operating Systems)

  • LGBTQ+
  • Party based
  • Optional tactical mode

Masquerada: Songs and Shadows chooses to use a more cartoon art-style that uses bright, attracting colors and friendly faces. The journey that awaits gamers is entirely voice acted and full of bright sounds and music.

The game does not contain turn-based combat, but a pause-system can be enabled that allows players to change positioning and control the way the fight is going. This is an action-packed adventure full of magic and music.

6 Disco Elysium (Windows, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, PS4, PS5, Macintosh Operating Systems)

  • Choices matter
  • Point and click
  • Isometric

This is a game that isn’t quite like the others. Instead of a fantasy role-playing game where the player encounters dangerous monsters and caverns full of dangerous men, Disco Elysium puts players in the shoes of a drunken detective who doesn’t know what he’s doing or where he is.

This is an isometric tale that has wonderful artwork and a soundtrack that will temporarily transport players to another realm. Decide what kind of detective to be and what political parties to side with, or don’t decide anything and wreak havoc on the city.

Think of this as one of Fane’s previous lives where the different parts of his brain all manifest with unique voices and some of them are The Doctor.

5 Baldur’s Gate 3 Early Access (Windows, macOS, Macintosh Operating Systems, Google Stadia)

  • Dungeons and Dragons
  • Party based
  • Turn based combat

Recommending a game from the same studio that made D: OS2 just makes sense. Moreover, the game comes from a storied franchise that draws upon D&D. Larian brings their more streamlined approach to combat and lovely storytelling to the Baldur’s Gate franchise in the early access Baldur’s Gate 3.

Since the game’s early access launch in September 2020 there have been a few patches. Changes included the typical performance-related issues. But Larian is taking in as much criticism and feedback as they can to produce a game all of the fans love, enjoy, and feel a part of.

4 Hades (Windows, macOS, Macintosh Operating Systems, Nintendo Switch)

  • Roguelike
  • Isometric
  • LGBTQ+

Hades is the latest entry from Supergiant games (known previously for Bastion and Transistor). The top-down roguelike features RPG elements and some romance options. While the combat is much more like a hack and slash, the story is engrossing and uses Greek mythology to draw players in and anchor them in a world.

But the world feels real and alive despite the player dying a bunch. The game is designed to let the player learn through failure, something Divinity fans may be all too familiar with if playing on Tactician mode.

3 XCOM 2 (Windows, Xbox One, PS4, OS X, Linux, Nintendo Switch, iOS)

  • Turn based combat
  • Perma death
  • Online co-op

This game might have a sci-fi, alien-fighting setting, but it sets the gold standard for turn-based combat. Though XCOM Enemy Unknown is a great game, XCOM 2 is the epitome of what this franchise represents in terms of compelling story and stellar gameplay.

Players who enjoyed Divinity’s tactical fight planning will fall in love with XCOM 2. Opt for the War of the Chosen DLC for an even more challenging playthrough and cameos from members of the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast.

2 Divinity: Original Sin (Windows, Classic Mac OS, PS4)

  • Party based
  • Turn based combat
  • Online co-op

That’s right: there was a whole other game in the same series before Divinity: Original Sin 2. Why not play the first game Larian released before this crowdfunded wunderkind that was its sequel?

It is set many, many years before the events of Divinity: Original Sin 2 and follows two Source Hunters. Direct timeline tie-ins with D: OS2 have not been discussed. But, to put things in perspective, Bracchus Rex is a boss fight in this game.

1 Wasteland 3 (Windows, Xbox One, PS4, macOS, Macintosh Operating Systems, Linux)

  • Turn based combat
  • Choices matter
  • Open world

Like XCOM 2, the Wasteland series features a futuristic setting instead of a fantasy one. There’s also a fanatical Ronald Reagan cult that, paired with other motifs in the game, brings a very nostalgic feel in the same way the Wolfenstein games do to a dystopic future setting.

But Wasteland 3’s best feature is how it amps up the importance of choice to 11. Fans of D: OS2 know how fantastic the power of choice makes games. So, if that’s a top priority, check out Wasteland 3 for some unique gameplay.

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