Steam has become a one-stop shop for pretty much every genre, including RPGs. Discoverability has become a problem in the past year or so, with tons of submissions waiting on a constant basis, but various curation tools help make the process much smoother.
After all, you can sort by genre and reviews, allowing you to find well-rated RPGs even faster. Not every RPG is a AAA sensation with tons of marketing, but you can still find the best games on the platform.
This particular Steam RPG has a positive rating from fans, and the best part is that it's completely free with no strings attached.
Live on Steam and completely free, Heavy Wake is a deckbuilding RPG that takes a page from classics like Slay the Spire. It's from studio Cold and Wet Studios, and the premise will sound familiar:
"Explore a cursed island in a short dark-fantasy deckbuilding RPG. Recruit strange survivors, build a party of unlikely allies, and survive tactical card battles as Fyodor searches for a cure for his dying tribe. Fyodor’s people are dying. Following an old legend, he sets out for a cursed island from which no expedition has returned. Its interior is...
