Like Baldur's Gate 3, but shorter

A tabletop RPG for one, on a space station. You roll your dice at the start of each day, then decide what to spend them on.

Keeps

Dice that decide things, and people who remember what you did for them.

Drops

Combat and the party. It's one person on one station.

Cyberpunk Berlin, a crew of misfits and the best writing in the series. The Director's Cut is the version to get.

Keeps

Turn-based fights in cover, and a crew whose stories you finish one at a time.

Drops

The swords. Elves carry shotguns here.

The evil overlord has already won and you are one of his judges. Short for an Obsidian RPG, and better for it.

Keeps

Companions with opinions, factions that remember and choices that close whole regions off.

Drops

Turns. Fights are real time, paused whenever you like.

A detective with amnesia and two dozen voices in his head arguing about it. Failing a check is often the better story.

Keeps

Skill checks on dice, and the pleasure of failing them.

Drops

Combat. Every fight is a conversation or a roll.

Recruit a crew, earn their loyalty, then take them somewhere they might not come back from. The companion half of Baldur's Gate 3, in space.

Keeps

Companions with missions of their own, romances, and a finale decided by how well you knew them.

Drops

Dice and turns. Between conversations it's a cover shooter.

Dungeons & Dragons rules running under a Star Wars coat. BioWare's own route from Baldur's Gate to Mass Effect.

Keeps

The d20 maths, a party you take everywhere and a light side you can lean away from.

Drops

Turn-based tactics. Actions queue in real time, paused at will.

The Dungeons & Dragons game where talking is the main weapon. Dense, strange and still the high mark for writing in the genre.

Keeps

D&D underneath, companions with history and more words than most novels.

Drops

Most of the fighting. You can talk your way past nearly all of it.