What are the best "rags to riches" games? The ones where you start as a bumfuck nobody but can build yourself up to rule entire nations.
The ones I know of
>Kenshi
>Starsector
>Fable
What are the best "rags to riches" games?
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Spore
Skyrim. Play Skyrim.
>start as errand boy
>end as powerful errand boy
no
That's every RPG, including OP's Fable.
more
like
>start as weakling prisoner who can barely kill a squib
>end as immortal demigod with their own mansion who can sling meteors and fly across the continent
Yet every quest is like this still
Name one RPG where quests like this aren't the norm.
Seriously are there any? I really wanna play one.
FF12's side quests are mostly in the form of monster hunts where you go after progressively more dangerous beasts who are causing trouble around the kingdom.
I hate JRPGs but I appreciate the suggestion anyway
and you still run errands
>start as weakling prisoner who can barely kill a squib
>kills 3-4 military trained humans and a bear right after escaping
You sound like you know how to read. Squibbait players are the jackasses who tag long blades and then cry that they can't kill anything with the iron dagger at the start of the game.
>start as weakling prisoner who can barely kill a squib
You're not talking about skyrim because you literally start the game by kicking dragon ass and trained soldiers are your bitch
Does Skyrim even have squibs?
>you literally start the game by kicking dragon ass and trained soldiers are your bitch
You literally don't you retard, you start from the carriage ride and have to kill a lot of easier enemies before the first weakened dragon in the ruined Whiterun tower.
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/4496
Morrowind. Skyrim sucks.
Terraria
Rimworld
Noita
Kingdom Come Deliverance, you go from a literal who to a gigachad
too streamlined
mount and blade series
battle brothers kind of?
rimworld
have a nice day
>have a nice day
NTA but it's a good game, and for an RPG KC:D does that rags to riches exceptionally well. You can't even read when you start because you're such a peasant.
I agree generally speaking this stuff is better realized in other genres, like some of those games already mentioned.
kyonyuu fantasy
any sandbox really
in mountain blade you can start as some worthless bandit or something and end up becoming a king
in x4 you can start as an explorer and end up with multiple stations and a massive fleet
Also fucking Gothic. You're a worthless criminal subhuman prisoner extorted and bullied by everyone around, and end up an unstoppable demon killing machine draped in ancient runic equipment.
Mount and Blade.
bum simulator
oh hey it's fully released now
VtM to an extent.
Elden Ring
Dragon's Dogma
My picks are more focused on gameplay feeling rather than greatness in the narrative.
Gothic 1 and 2 are the best examples I know of. It also has the bonus of gaining a group of absolute bros to help you through your quest.
The first Risen also nails the tough early game, didn't finish it though.
Mars: War Logs with a good build start with getting wrecked by a few bugs or thugs, and ends with stunlocking squads of elite troops.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante does this depending on your choices. The actual RPG side of the game is its worst element, though
Gothic 1/2 are considered to be one of the best examples of a game that gives you the experience of rising from literal nobody to a super-hero tier machine of death. The progression is really incredibly well handled, and the world reinforces this. You literally start out having to pay off assholes for "protection" because you begin the game as EVERYBODY's bitch, the world hammers your insignificance down in the early stage.
It's frankly the main reason why these games were so well loved at the time.
Kingdom Come that someone mentioned clearly draws a fair bit inspiration from this (and Gothic in general), and isn't half bad at it. Though there are issues with it, the game just isn't nearly as well ballanced due to some poor design in the rulest, namely not gating training and scaling enemies in some contexts.
Still, it is fun to see the wimpy little gay become a dignified asshole of a page.
I really wish Kingdom Come got more mods, it has potential.
Yeah. Unfortunately, Cryengine apparently makes modding unnecessary hard (same issue as RedEngine), which makes the already limited modding scene even more restrictive.
I would kill for a good hunting overhaul mod.
xcom
X4
what happened to other 3?
Dated, but X3 is still relatively good
STALKER
Mount and Blade
Unironically the plot progression from Saints Row 1-4.
Might & Magic series, especially 6-8
why didn't you include the game that art's from in the list
Because you'll always be the underdog in BB. You can't even build a fort unless you mod the game.
Give Amazing Cultivation Simulator (as in Taoist spiritual cultivation, not farming shit) a try. It's not really rags to riches but it's power fantasy all the same. You can go from being a normal human with 60 years to live to basically being an immortal with enough power to solo raid an entire rival cultivator school, steal all their secret techniques and make them your bitch for tribute. You can also learn techniques that make your dick drop off, then turn that dick into a demigod over time.
People don't like Vaan in FF12, but I like how he begins the game being called Vaan "ratsbane" to being the only party member to stand alongside Reddas to destroy that stone at Pharos.
I don’t know why people didn’t like Vaan. Starting out as a street urchin pickpocket and then going on to take on an Empire is some kino progression.
Then again, I like playing as rogue classes in general in RPGs, so the plot of starting out as a low life criminal doing odd jobs for the local gangsters is always something that speaks to me.
It would be extremely fucking retarded to lock the player out of content just because they hit a certain story point. Especially since you gain the ability to shout relatively early in the story.
7.62 Hard Life
You obviously forgot battle brothers since that's what that image is from. Also Warband because Bannerlord still sucks.
Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress.
pathfinder
>rags
Being a level 1 adventurer/crusader with 25 point buy already puts you a mile above "rags" and the common rabble.
I like to play rimworld starting with 1 naked character
Dark Souls 2, no starting gift, Deprived, no levelling limit. It's character progression porn, you just don't stop until you have absolutely everything and throunce shit just looking at it.
ZHP: Unlosing Ranger vs Darkdeath Evilman might be worth a look, too. Just stick to emulating it, though.
Picked this up on a whim and spent most of the day playing it.
I dunno what the full potential of it is in the "zero to hero" context, but it's fun so far.
minecraft
Kenshi
Gothic 1 and 2 give the best sense of being a scared loser that's weaker than everything that claws his way up but the endgame isn't ruling nations
Noita
Real life
Not at all balanced, and the dev hasn't updated for eons.
Finished pic related yesterday and it kinda gives you the experience.
No it doesn't, you start the fucking game as the chosen one.
At least in Kingmaker you start the game as some rando adventurer, but WotR you start the game as one of the most important characters in the world.
>No it doesn't, you start the fucking game as the chosen one.
99% of RPGs you start as the "chosen one" where you have powers that other people don't get to have.
I guess Crusader Kings or Mount and Blade could be something OP is looking for though.
sunless sea
Anno 1800
Anyone tried Archmage Rising?
Still lacking core content. Might be decent in a year or two.
Thanks for the update
>Might be decent in a year or two.
strange considering this game was a thing 8 years ago too
Ardenfall once it comes out
Several Yakuza games where you end up managing a business
>Yakuza 7
>Come out of jail with nothing but the clothes you are wearing
>First minigame is a 3d pacman where you compete against other hobos to collect cans you can trade for items
>Become the manager of a small cookie(what the hell is a senbei?) store
>Own half of Yokohama by the end of that storyline
>Go back home to the room above a whorehouse with nothing but matresses you got because people got pity on you because the main storyline where you are a hobo the whole way through doesnt connect with the cookie store manager storyline where you are racking billions of yens hourly.
Might and Magic 6
Murloc RPG, the flash game