The Best Protagonist Games

Update : Lords of Ravage added at rank #1.
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Lords of Ravage (2025)

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Become the Final Boss! Play any way you want, combine followers from different factions, and win spectacular turn-based battles. Expand your Empire of Darkness and seek a powerful artifact that can change the fate of the world.


  • protagonist
  • rpg
  • japanese
  • rogue-like-deckbuilder
  • tactical
  • turn-based
  • villain
  • rogue-like
  • dark
  • procedural
  • jrpg
  • deckbuilder
  • base-building
  • fantasy
  • pixel

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Buccaneers: Shipshape (2025)

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Beat-‘em-up action on the high seas! Play as pirate on a mission to reclaim your stolen ship. Fight rival marauders, steal from uppity civilians, and unleash fierce companion parrots in this fast-paced, belt-scrolling brawler packed with humor and mayhem!

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  • campaign
  • cooperative
  • beat-em-up
  • protagonist
  • swordplay
  • scroller
  • local
  • hack-and-slash
  • pirates
  • remake
  • comedy
  • villain
  • 1980s
  • cartoony
  • pixel

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Vindefiant (2025)

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A disgruntled employee is fired from his job, sparking a path of rage and destruction. Lead Alyx through his journey of vengeance and creatively kill enemies in this pixel-art adventure where you, are the villain.

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  • protagonist
  • destruction
  • gore
  • villain
  • precision
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • supernatural
  • scroller
  • blood
  • action-adventure
  • physics
  • platform
  • violent

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Ooze: The Great and Powerful (2025)

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PC Windows

Play as monster in this puzzle platformer with no jump ability. Move from one room to another, killing all adventurers by your self or using traps on the level. Explore, eat, escape.

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  • protagonist
  • platform
  • 2d
  • villain
  • puzzle
  • dragon
  • linear
  • physics
  • comedy
  • dungeon
  • pixel
  • fantasy
  • funny
  • violent
  • controller-support

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Escape from Mutation Station (2025)

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A short, unconventional escape room experience. You are the candidate. You must find a way out of this room. Things are not as they seem.

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  • escape
  • silent
  • room
  • protagonist
  • psychological
  • short
  • surreal
  • dark
  • walking-simulator
  • mystery
  • detective
  • point-and-click
  • horror
  • logic
  • pixel

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Ascendrix (2024)

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PC Windows

The ascent nightmare

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  • silent
  • protagonist
  • precision
  • platform
  • 3d
  • parkour
  • pve
  • cyberpunk
  • linear
  • abstract
  • logic
  • minimalist
  • family-friendly
  • arcade
  • first-person

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Marry a Deep One: Innsmouth Simulator (2024)

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PC Windows

Establish your bloodline, lead a sinister cult and manage an isolated seaside village, where aquatic monsters crossbreed with humans. Use social manipulation and eldritch magic to gain power and influence.

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  • protagonist
  • choices
  • simulation
  • lovecraftian
  • life
  • political
  • villain
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • management
  • interactive
  • point-and-click
  • drama
  • atmospheric
  • horror

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ION Shift (2024)

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PC Windows

ION Shift offers fast-paced, precision combat with sleek visuals, designed for fans of Katana Zero. Play as a deadly creature and destroy everything in your path to escape.

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  • protagonist
  • villain
  • 2d
  • violent
  • pixel
  • gore
  • sci-fi
  • platform
  • blood
  • futuristic
  • fast-paced
  • precision

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Munch (2024)

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Kill. Eat. Evolve. Unleash your inner monster in this dark fantasy action roguelite. Devour the Followers of Order, choose your mutations and transform into 12 different monsters each with their own abilities, soundtrack and appetite. Crush the god Ördo to release the Gods of Heavy Metal!


  • rogue-like
  • protagonist
  • lovecraftian
  • villain
  • gore
  • hack-and-slash
  • destruction
  • fantasy
  • dark
  • action
  • caviar
  • puffball
  • horror
  • mythology
  • open-world

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Toastercide (2024)

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You are a Toaster. You have been tasked with eliminating targets by expertly maneuvering into their bathtubs. Use your power cord and toast abilities to slow down time, grapple and swing around physics-based environments to execute a Toastercide, all while navigating as fast as possible.

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  • dark
  • comedy
  • cartoony
  • humor
  • protagonist
  • 3d
  • assassin
  • physics
  • action-adventure
  • villain
  • third-person
  • funny
  • colourful
  • exploration

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