2D RPGs have been around almost as long as video games themselves, and this is how the best the genre has to offer stacks up.

Triangle Strategy is a rich and complex strategy RPG, and one of the best uses of the HD-2D style we've seen to date. And now ...

Thanks to its impressively easy-to-use nature, the 2D game engine RPG Maker had a strong Francophone community across both Canada and Europe in the mid 2000s.

HD-2D JRPGs bring the nostalgia of classic JRPGs to the modern era, and these games are the best of their kind.

Square's new HD-2D action RPG is The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, and it really does look like a punchy, dungeon-crawler version of Octopath, just with one playable character.

The new game from Final Fantasy maker Square Enix seemed like a harmless, simple adventure utilizing the HD-2D style refined by Octopath Traveler and remakes for classic RPG series like Dragon Quest.