Here Are 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs... As Voted By You!

The nominations were nominated, and the votes were voted, and now we have the final results: this year's official most anticipated TTRPGs--as voted by you! Well, a few thousand of you.

Just like we do every year, the EN World community votes on the games they are looking forward to. Here is last year's Top 10 (spoiler: the winner was Shadow of the Weird Wizard. Previous winners include 13th Age (2013), Star Wars Force & Destiny (2015), Rifts for Savage Worlds (2016), Trudvang Chronicles (2017), Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition (2018), Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (2019), Dune (2020 & 2021), Twilight 2000 (2021), Blade Runner (2022), Pendragon 6E (2023), and Shadow of the Weird Wizard (2024). What will be the most anticipated RPG of 2025?

Let's find out!

10) Starfinder 2E (Paizo Publishing)
The Starfinder Playtest Rulebook brings Starfinder into a new age of compatibility, as Starfinder switches to using the same rules engine that powers the popular Second Edition of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Inside this playtest for the new edition, you’ll find six new classes, 10 ancestries, new skills, new feats, futuristic equipment including augmentations and upgrades, new science-fantasy spells, and more!

9) Alien - Evolved Edition (Free League)
Expanded and updated core rules and a new cinematic scenario for the award-winning RPG from Free League and 20th Century Studios. Based upon feedback from thousands of players over five years of adventures, the Evolved Edition of the Core Rulebook delivers an updated and streamlined version of the ALIEN RPG fans know and love, along with additional new artwork, new content, and a variety of new tools for players and Game Mothers alike, all fully compatible with previous releases and game material.

8) 13th Age 2nd Edition (Pelgrane Press)
A New Edition of the Award-Winning Heroic Fantasy Game! The coolest and most fun parts of traditional d20-rolling fantasy gaming plus story-focused rules, now with updated class and kin powers, fearsome new abilities for your favorite monsters, and revamped icon connection mechanics!

13th Age 2E has been in this chart three years running! In both 2023 and 2024 it came 3rd in the poll!

7) Coriolis: The Great Dark (Free League)
Free League's original sci-fi RPG returns. Join expeditions to faraway stars and delve deep into ancient ruins.

6) Dolmenwood (Necrotic Gnome)
Dolmenwood is a fantasy adventure game set in a lavishly detailed world inspired by the fairy tales and eerie folklore of the British Isles. Like traditional fairy tales, Dolmenwood blends the dark and whimsical, the wondrous and weird.

This is Dolmenwood's second appearance in this chart, coming in at #5 last year!

5) Terry Pratchett's Discworld: Adventures in Ankh-Morpork (Modiphius)
Adventures in Ankh-Morpork, the Discworld tabletop roleplaying game, catapults you onto the streets of the Big Wahoonie, and once you've dusted yourself off you can adventure to your heart's content. With imagination and some shiny math rocks at your fingertips, your story on the Disc awaits. Based on the popular Discworld fantasy series by Sir Terry Pratchett, Adventures in Ankh-Morpork is an officially licensed tabletop roleplaying game set in its most recognisable city, complete with Sir Terry's iconic wit, humour, and humanistic satire.

4) Draw Steel (MCDM)
A Fantasy RPG where your character starts, at level 1, already a hero. Maybe even locally famous! You might meet in a tavern, or start in the middle of the action! Whether you’re a group of local heroes sent to investigate mysterious goings-on in the nearby haunted wood, or famous mercenaries plotting and scheming in the big city, the MCDM RPG makes building adventures and fighting monsters fun. Basically, any adventure or story you’re running in your current Fantasy RPG, you can do that in this game. Just, in a more straightforward and fun way, unburdened by sacred cows from the 1970s.

3) Daggerheart (Darrington Press)
Daggerheart is a fantasy tabletop roleplaying game of brave heroics and vibrant worlds that are built together with your gaming group. Create a shared story with your adventuring party, and shape your world through rich, long-term campaign play.

2) Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere (Brotherwise Games)
The Cosmere® RPG is a "living" RPG that will grow as Brandon Sanderson writes new novels and expands his universe. This original system is designed to tell standalone stories in the Stormlight™ or Mistborn® Settings -- or sweeping Worldhopper™ campaigns that move between different worlds and realms!

1) Legend in the Mist (Son of Oak)
A rustic fantasy tabletop RPG based on the acclaimed City of Mist. Spin a fireside tale of unlikely villagers setting out on a quest into a greater unknown world, rife with peril and mystery, in the vein of The Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time, Princess Mononoke, and many other classic fantasy stories, or create your own legendary realms with the game’s open-ended system.

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PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE ANNUAL EN WORLD MOST ANTICIPATED TABLETOP RPG OF THE YEAR

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#​	2013​	2015​	2016​	2017​	2018​	2019​	2020​	2021​	2022​	2023​	2024​
1​	13th Age​	Star Wars Force & Destiny​	Rifts for Savage Worlds​	Trudvang Chronicles​	Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition​	Savage Worlds Adventure Edition​	Dune​	Dune/ Twilight2000 (joint)​	Blade Runner​	King Arthur Pendragon 6th Edition​	Shadow of the Weird Wizard​
2​	Numenera​	Deluxe Exalted 3rd Edition​	Mutant Crawl Classics​	Tales from the Loop​	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fourth Edition​	Pathfinder 2nd Edition​	Vaesen - Nordic Horror Roleplaying​	-​	Broken Tales​	Dragonbane/Darkar och Demoner​	The Electric State​
3​	Star Wars Edge of the Empire​	Unified Rolemaster​	7th Sea 2nd Edition​	Kult: Divinity Lost​	Kult: Divinity Lost​	Lex Arcana​	Cyberpunk Red​	The One Ring (2nd Edition)​	Pendragon 6E​	13th Age 2nd Edition​	13th Age 2nd Edition​
4​	Shadowrun 5th Edition​	Conan Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of​	Conan Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of​	Star Trek Adventures​	Forbidden Lands: Retro Open-World Survival Fantasy RPG​	The Expanse​	Fallout​	King Arthur Pendragon 6th Edition​	Avatar Legends​	Household​	Pendragon 6E​
5​	Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition​	Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls​	DCC Lankhmar​	Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of​	RuneQuest: Role-playing in Glorantha​	Eclipse Phase 2nd Edition​	Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: Soulbound​	Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E)​	Mothership 1E​	Mothership 1E​	Dolmenwood​
6​	Firefly​	Barbarians of Lemuria: Mythic Edition​	RuneQuest 4​	Starfinder​	The Witcher Roleplaying Game​	Dune RPG​	Swords of the Serpentine​	Rivers of London​	Rivers of London​	Shadow of the Weird Wizard​	Cohors Cthulhu​
7​	Fate Core​	Feng Shui 2​	Torg: Eternity​	The Witcher Roleplaying Game​	Warhammer 40,000 Wrath & Glory​	John Carter of Mars​	Rivers of London​	Pathfinder for Savage Worlds​	Shadow of the Weird Wizard​	The Walking Dead Universe​	Daggerheart​
8​	Hillfolk​	Fantasy AGE​	Blue Rose AGE​	Coriolis​	The Expanse​	Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition​	Stargate​	Brancalonia - The Spaghetti Fantasy RPG​	Cy-Borg​	Warhammer 40K Imperium Maledictum​	Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme​
9​	Torchbearer​	Paranoia​	Paranoia​	Delta Green Roleplaying Game​	Legend of the Five Rings 5th Edition​	Things from the Flood​	Fading Suns 4E​	Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition​	Swords of the Serpentine​	Old Gods of Appalachia​	Mothership 1E​
10​	-​	Shadows of the Demon Lord​	Delta Green​	Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea 2E​	Numenera 2: Discovery & Destiny​	Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD​	Cortex Prime​	SLA Industries, 2nd Edition​	Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5e​	Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme​	Tales of the Valiant​

 

[ruemere]

This time I wanted to vote for practically everything on the list.

Also, all but three items had serious BUTs for me:

• bloody detailed minute rules
• wordiness (ever since Apocalypse World and Blades in the Dark happened, ever since player-facing playbooks become a reality, making a class that has twenty page long subrulessystem has become a bad thing in my book)
• tired take on healing (no healbots, please, let's make PCs more self-sufficient)

Good luck to everyone... and who knows, maybe I'll give a chance to PF2E, I mean Starfinder 2E.

 

[aramis erak]

i don't know this version. There is an active community for GURPS ?

GURPS has been simmering along consistently since 1987... It's only rarely been overly visible, but the SJG boards have constant GURPS activity. As for the Diskworld book, no clue; I quit using GURPS around 2003. But SJG had a strong success with GURPS Traveller until their license ended.
A particular subversion is the most recent core... SJG's Dungeon Fantasy is a subset of core GURPS, optimized for dungeon games.

 

[anteros_gold]

I am so excited about Legend In The Mist!! I honestly thought I was done buying any more RPG's. Like, I had found my favorite books, spent years studying my favorite mechanics, and finally thought I had things narrowed down to my top 3. Legend of the Mist looks like it could blow those out of the water. I've already made a shelf on my wall to give it a place of honor.

Since their cyberpunk version of the game had already come out when the LitM kickstarter was going on, I signed up for the PDF to get a preview on what the rules for LitM would be like. There were already youtube videos and a playable demo that gave me overview and hints enough to get me excited, but I wanted to get into the fine details. So I emailed the company and asked them to let me late-back the PDF and they did, and sent me the PDF. I think it was an "mostly done playtest" at the time with some art changes pending. But, oh wow, I fell for the game hard! Cyberpunk, and Tokyo specifically didn't appeal to me much, mostly because I feel all my players would know way more about Tokyo and Japanese stuff than I would, but I fell in love with the system and the excellent execution. I immediately emailed them asking for more money so I can get the physical book. I'm glad I did. I've played in a couple of Otherscape games so far and really liked it. But it's just tying me over until I can get my hands on Legend!

Legend In The Mist feels like it's going to hit a sweet spot in my favorite mechanics and systems. I've looked into City of Mist, Son of Oak's flagship game, the ancestor to the Otherscape and Legend In The Mist. While I'm not crazy about the the concept, the execution of the product is amazing. It looks genuinely fun and engaging. The only reason I haven't bought physical books for that too, is I just can't see myself wanting to go back to a game with PbtA moves anymore. Not after seeing Otherscape's effect system in-play.

Anyway, I'm really psyched about LitM, and it's gotten me excited about getting into roleplaying again. The author not only has a history of making great games that people love, but he seems to be very familiar with the books I like to read and the anime my players like to watch, so I think his setting book will be amazing, too. I went all in for the kickstarter bundle. I've gotten involved with RPG communities again, and I've started to look into online roleplaying and VTTs. I just got a new camera today and learned how use my old one to make a little "dice cam" for an online Discord game.

And all this time, I've been kind of assuming that very few people knew about Legend In The Mist, and that I would have to get all my local players into it just like I tried to do with Fate a few years ago. The fact that so many other people are also looking forward to this game has me excited that I'll actually be able to find groups to play with, or at least have a slightly easier time recruiting my locals. Plus, like I said, getting into online roleplaying for the first time.

So far I've played two sessions of Legend in the Mist and two more sessions of Otherscape. Looking forward to many more in 2025!

 

[Wolfpack48]

that assumes that they all do it, as soon as some do and some don’t, it tilts the results in favor of those that do reach out to their base.

There’s no way to control this.

 

[mamba]

There’s no way to control this.

no there isn’t, but that doesn’t mean that it has no influence

 

[Wolfpack48]

no there isn’t, but that doesn’t mean that it has no influence

Sure. Businesses and fan bases are going to market. I think the real value is in the nominated list. You get to see games you might not know exist otherwise. The winner is always going to be subjective.

 

[Reynard]

that assumes that they all do it, as soon as some do and some don’t, it tilts the results in favor of those that do reach out to their base.

That's hardly the fault of companies that dud. Frankly, I'm not sure why I should be excited about a game if the people making it don't seem to be.

 

[mamba]

That's hardly the fault of companies that dud. Frankly, I'm not sure why I should be excited about a game if the people making it don't seem to be.

whether you care about the tilt or not is up to you, the point is that there is one

Maybe the people making the game are not aware of this poll. Getting your fan base to ‘vote for me’ is more marketing than a gauge of excitement by the creators to me.

My ‘issue’ is that due to this tilt, I am not sure how true the premise of statements like this actually is

This forum supporting Legends of the Mist has me immediately interested

This certainly is the reaction the ‘vote for me’ marketing campaign hoped for however

 

[rhythmsoundmotion]

It really depends on the “Mikey likes it” principle.
The poll is not conclusive of how well these games will do anyway. Word of mouth from the first buyers of each game is going to dwarf the results here quickly.

 

[Reynard]

whether you care about the tilt or not is up to you, the point is that there is one

Maybe the people making the game are not aware of this poll. Getting your fan base to ‘vote for me’ is more marketing than a gauge of excitement by the creators to me.

My ‘issue’ is that due to this tilt, I am not sure how true the premise of statements like this actually is


This certainly is the reaction the ‘vote for me’ marketing campaign hoped for however

So, what exactly? How would have a poll like this even been "untilted"? I don't understand what sort of standard of purity you are aiming for.