#13
Crystal Project is a buildcraft game wearing an open-world JRPG as a disguise. The job system lets you mix abilities across classes in ways that reward planning over grinding, and the exploration is non-linear in a way that keeps surprising you with optional encounters tuned well above the expected difficulty. The narrative is minimal. That is the honest reason it sits here rather than in the top ten. But systems-focused RPG players who find the story-heavy entries above less interesting will likely rank this higher on their personal list.