The Important and Relevance of Strategy in Role-playing Games

Abstract

There is a lack of proper more sophisticated strategy in several role-playing games today. Based on data from the ‘steamspy’ website that gathers and analyses data of users from the ‘Steam’ platform, the largest gaming platform today, out of the 1591 role-playing games on the platform, only 37 are categorized as ‘strategy role-playing games’ and only 46 are categorized as ‘tactical role-playing games’, which is only about 5% of the total number of role-playing games. This research paper aims to determine the importance and relevance of strategy in role-playing games and promote the strategy element to be incorporated in role-playing games. Based on reviews of different existing games, a game level design document was produced. Analysis of the completed document showed that the ‘strategy’ element is indeed important in role-playing games. Further research is needed to identify if strategy should be incorporated into every genre of games other than role-playing games.