10 BEST JRPGs of 2023 You NEED to Play!

It's that time of year again! Let's count down the top 10 best JRPGs of 2023. What were some of your favorite JRPGs? Drop a comment and let us know!

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[jgreysquirrel]

Octopath 2 was amazing, and the things they improved made the game even better than octo 1. I hope they will continue the series.

[TheBigBruvv]

Awesome list Taylor! Man this has been probably the most stacked year for JRPGS and damn near every single one of them were amazing in their own right! 🔥

[alexterieur]

Octopath 2 is also my jrpg of the year! What an amazing game built on the strong foundation of the first one!
Engage story might be weak, but the gameplay and replay value is stellar which explains why i just started my 4th playthrough of the year!
Games i want to play in the future are Star Ocean second story R and Eternights!
Thanks for your high quality videos: super well structured, narrated and written !

[riyuphoenix]

Finally someone else who actually enjoyed FE Engage, the combat was fun and fantastic, sure the story was just ok, but still what a great game overall. Great list.

[dustpal]

Man, this year was so packed. I’ve just barely made it a quarter of the way through the Megaman Battle Network Legacy collection. These were my favorite games while growing up and they still hold up fairly well, even if the first two had some pacing issues. Just so much fun and not enough time.

[comfyshiro]

Octopath Traveler 2 is my favorite game of this year, hands down. All sixteen of em. I already adored the first (drawn in by the artstyle and music, kept engaged with fun characters, great turn based combat that somehow struck that balance of being satisfying and not making bosses feel like health sponges.)

The stories, while not perfect, definitely had their moments as well.

Octopath Traveler 2 took all that was great about the first and cranked it up to eleven. Even BETTER hd-2d artstyle, even better music, evolved combat in really nice ways, had overall improvements in flow, structure and writing, I could go on and on. Any fan of turn based rpgs, play this game. It is genuinely incredible.

[Cessate]

I feel like Chained Echoes, despite being released on Dec 8, 2022 needs more love.

It released too late last year that it got no love, and then nobody even cares about it this year. It is hands down the best "this year" in my opinion.

[RwnEsper]

Octopath feels like someone looked at the SaGa series and said "What if we made this, but with a SANE progression system?"

[eliasisthegreatest]

Man am I excited to play your number 1 pick because the one you picked for number 2 was my game of the year!

[Therealcovault]

Azure, Nayuta, and Reverie all the way! '23 was a fantastic year for me.

My favorite JRPG this year was Trails into Reverie for sure. Lots of hype moments, characters interactions I thought would be happen or even considered. Awesome pacing and Lapis is such an impactful character.

[Saihamm]

I almost lost hope when I didn't see Octopath Traveler 2! Then you put it in number 1! I really love you. I cannot express how this game made my whole year.

[mjdf]

I’ve been blessed to see all from 1980-Now so many great JRPGs throughout the decades 2023 was a great year for gaming

[louvella-sama]

Love to see FE Engage in your list. I haven't played it yet, but it's nice to see positivity about the game. Really helps with not beating my future enjoyment/experience with the game when I finally play it.

[calvinmatthews]

I agree with you Taylor, I love Octopath Traveler 2. Best-looking HD-2D game imo. Sure, it still has a few problems, but overall, it's great!

[mjdf]

Sea of Stars Octopath Traveler 2 Trinity Trigger and honorable mention Chained Echoes (released December 2022) are some of the best JRPGs for 2023

[frankmb]

I'm at my fourth playthrough of Octopath Traveler 2. Still NOT bored and the final boss is always a blast to play through and its music is a BANGER.

[chadbaileyisawesome]

Octopath Traveler II was definitely my favorite game of the year. Great list!

[seapanther]

Idk how Octopath Travelers 2 didn't win an award this year.

[OFSheep]

Star Ocean 2 was already my brother's favorite video game, and having a remake that is just a straight improvement on everything it touched while keeping a lot of the classic so2 weirdness... it almost made his old bitter heart cry with joy.

[invincibletime]

Yesss so glad Eternights was included. Not my top but definitely was one of my favorites of 2023.