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The character customization is not amazing, and it has pacing issues (for now an upcoming update is supposed to tighten its belt considerably). Darkest Dungeon is a dungeon crawl strategy game very much modeled on OD&D as it was meant to be played. If you can stomach real time gameplay in the style of Eye of the Beholder, the Legend of Grimrock games are very good.Д®DIT: One I didn't think to mention because it's not exactly an RPG.

Hopefully the forthcoming Bard's Tale revival will be similar but better, or perhaps the currently in Early Access Starcrawlers. As such, most of the good examples are Japanese games native to consoles or portables. This genre was almost entirely killed in the west in the mid-90s, and its environments are expansive enough to be difficult to revive in indie titles. Neither of those are supposed to be particularly good, compared to the likes of Etrian Odyssey. Might and Magic X Legacy is along similar lines. In terms of traditional dungeon crawlers, there's Elminage Gothic. And there's Etrian Mystery Dungeon, a spinoff that's more of a roguelike based on the Mystery Dungeon games (they aren't too famous here in the west I believe, though Pokemon Mystery Dungeon got localized and is a pretty cool serie)

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6-7 games? Kind of? The original series went up to Etrian Odyssey 4 last I remember, plus two remakes of the original games (called Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl, and Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Fafnir Knight) that add a story mode, plus some character classes. Later games add more customisation in the form or sub-classes or inherited skills, depending on the game. There's no preset characters to use you make your whole team of 5 out of 5-7 preset character classes (each class with four models each, two male and two female), and each class has a varied skill tree to develop, with only limited points so you can't just buy everything ever (don't worry though you can always just make more characters, or reset the skill point for an exp cost).

The plot is generally simple: 'there's this dungeon, you're explorers, do I need to spell it out?' Of course, there's more to each game plot than the premise, but you can safely play it for just the old-school dungeon delving and mapping etc. Etrian Odissey perhaps? It's a serie of RPGs for Nintendo systems (handheld only, I'm afraid).

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