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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!

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.


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

#

2015

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

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