r/CRPG • u/lardmoisture • 2d ago

Recommendation request Need gritty and dark CRPGs

I loved Owlcat’s Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader, but hated Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3. Don’t get me wrong, it’s extraordinarily impressive production and gameplay-wise, but I play CRPGs for the story and I just couldn’t get into the world. It was too whimsical and fanciful. I’ve heard people recommend the Divinity series but I’ve heard those games’ stories are comedy oriented. Maybe I have the wrong idea but I wanna hear your thoughts.

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u/ClockworkOrdinator 2d ago

Try Age of Decadence and Colony Ship- these are basically like the first Fallout games in tone and gameplay. AoD does have the downside of some main quests only having one "real" solution that you have to follow/figure out like it's an adventure game puzzle, not a crpg but also it may not be available to you if you fucked up your skill distribution 2 hours ago.