The following is a timeline of tabletop role-playing games. For computer role-playing games see here.
The publication year listed here is the year of the first edition in the original country. Additional editions, translations or adaptations for use in other countries are not included in this list. For editions other than the first, consult the corresponding article.
Some games started out as generic role-playing supplements, supplements for other games, or even a different kind of game. Those games are listed in the year when they made the transition to a standalone role-playing game.
Unique games with identical or similar titles are listed separately. Unique means games that use different rules or settings but does not include rule revisions by the same author or publisher.
1970s
1974 Dungeons & Dragons Rules to the Game of DUNGEON
1975 Boot Hill Empire of the Petal Throne En Garde! Tunnels & Trolls
1976 Bunnies & Burrows Knights of the Round Table Metamorphosis Alpha Monsters! Monsters! Starfaring
1977 Arduin Chivalry & Sorcery Flash Gordon & the Warriors of Mongo The Realm of Yolmi Space Patrol, later renamed Star Patrol Space Quest Superhero: 2044 Traveller
1978 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Bifrost The Complete Warlock Gamma World High Fantasy John Carter, Warlord of Mars Legacy PrinceCon System RuneQuest Starships & Spacemen Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier What Price Glory?!
1979 Adventures in Fantasy Buccaneer Bushido Commando Gangster! Heroes Ironhedge Villains and Vigilantes Ysgarth
1980s
1980 Archaeron Basic Role-Playing Beasts, Men & Gods The Castle Perilous Dallas DragonQuest The Fantasy Trip Land of the Rising Sun Melanda The Morrow Project Odysseus Skull and Crossbones Space Opera Supergame Thieves' Guild Top Secret
1981 Aftermath! Call of Cthulhu Champions Crimefighters Fantasy Wargaming Heroes of Olympus The Mechanoid Invasion Merc Midgard (German RPG) The Spawn of Fashan Star Rovers Stormbringer Universe Wild West Wizards' Realm
1982 Alma Mater Behind Enemy Lines by FASA Daredevils Drakar och Demoner (Dragonbane) Fringeworthy FTL:2448 Gangbusters Inner City Knights and Berserkers and Legerdemain Man, Myth and Magic Pirates and Plunder Recon Rolemaster Space Infantry Starfleet Voyages Star Frontiers Star Trek: The Role Playing Game Swordbearer Worlds of Wonder
1983 Droids Element Masters Espionage!, later renamed Danger International James Bond 007 Lands of Adventure (French RPG) Lords of Creation L'Ultime Epreuve (French RPG) Mach: The First Colony Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes Other Suns by FGU Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game Powers & Perils Privateers and Gentlemen Stalking the Night Fantastic Star Quest Super Squadron Superworld Timeship To Challenge Tomorrow The Valley of the Pharaohs Victorian Adventure Warhammer The Mass Combat Fantasy Role-Playing Game Witch Hunt by StatCom Simulations
1984 The Adventures of Indiana Jones The Atlantean Trilogy (also known as The Arcanum) Chill Das Schwarze Auge (The Dark Eye) DragonRaid Elfquest Fighting Fantasy - The Introductory Role-Playing Game Flashing Blades Golden Heroes Heroes Unlimited Justice, Inc.
Maelstrom Marvel Super Heroes (French RPG) Middle-earth Role Playing Mutant Paranoia Phantasy Conclave Psi World Ringworld Skyrealms of Jorune Star Ace Swords & Glory Time & Time Again Time Master Toon Twilight: 2000
1985 Challengers Conan Role-Playing Game DC Heroes Dinky Dungeons The Doctor Who Role Playing Game Dragon Warriors Dragonroar Fantasy Hero Hawkmoon Hidden Kingdom Judge Dredd: The Role-Playing Game Maléfices Mekton Midnight at the Well of Souls Role-Playing System Pendragon Sandman - Map of Halaal Space Master Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness
1986 2300 AD 9th Generation Arena By the Gods The Challenges Game System Delta Force: America Strikes Back! Eternal Soldier Ghostbusters Freedom Fighters GURPS HârnMaster Hunter Planet: The All Australian Role Playing Game MechWarrior Mythworld Phoenix Command The Price of Freedom Robotech Robot Warriors Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Year of the Phoenix
1987 Ars Magica Beyond the Supernatural Cyborg Commando Enforcers Expendables Future Worlds Living Steel MEGA Role-Playing System Miekka ja magia Night of the Ninja Ninjas & Superspies Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game by West End Games Talislanta Teenagers from Outer Space Robotech II: The Sentinels TimeLords TWERPS
1988
Albedo Bullwinkle and Rocky Role-Playing Party Game Cyberpunk 2013 High Colonies Justifiers RPG Macho Women with Guns Manhunter Phantasia Second Dawn Space: 1889 SpaceTime Woof Meow
1989 Advanced Fighting Fantasy Adventurers of the North: Kalevala Heroes Batman Role-Playing Game Blackwatch The Confederate Rangers Cyberspace In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas It Came From the Late, Late, Late Show Lace & Steel Mutazoids Omnigon Prince Valiant: The Story-Telling Game Shadowrun Star Hero Sword World RPG
1990s
1990 Age of Ruin by Cutting Edge Games Aquelarre (Spanish RPG) Attack of the Humans Battlelords of the 23rd Century Buck Rogers XXVC Cadillacs and Dinosaurs CORPS Fifth Cycle Hero System Morpheus Nightlife Reich Star Rifts (German RPG) Torg Worlds Beyond
1991 Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game Aliens Adventure Game Dark Conspiracy Kult Lord of the Rings Adventure Game Lost Souls Millennium's End Tales from the Floating Vagabond Time Lord: Adventures through Time and Space Vampire: The Masquerade Warp World The World of Synnibarr
1992 Dangerous Journeys Dream Park: The Roleplaying Game Duel by Nightshift Games Fanhunter, el juego de rol épicodecadente Fudge Fuzzy Heroes by Inner City Games Designs Nephilim Over the Edge Werewolf: The Apocalypse
1993 Amazing Engine The Beast Within Earthdawn Fate of the Norns Forgotten Futures High Adventure Cliffhangers Buck Rogers Adventure Game Kryształy Czasu Macross II: The Role-Playing Game Mage: The Ascension Manhunter Mutant Chronicles Nexus: The Infinite City Pandemonium! Prime Directive Risus Shatterzone SLA Industries (German RPG) Theatrix Underground The Whispering Vault
1994 3D&T Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth Castle Falkenstein Don't Look Back Gardásiyal: Adventures on Tékumel GateWar by Escape Ventures HoL Immortal: The Invisible War Inferno by Death's Edge Games Masterbook STOCS lite by Wasteland Games and its 1996 supplement Heretics: Welcome to the Asylum Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game The World of Bloodshadows The World of Indiana Jones Wraith: The Oblivion
1995 Changeling: The Dreaming Cybergeneration The End by Scapegoat Games Everway Heavy Gear Nightbane Project A-ko The World of Necroscope The World of Tank Girl
1996 Blood Dawn Bubblegum Crisis CJ Carella's WitchCraft Conspiracy X The D6 System: The Customizable Roleplaying Game Deadlands Dragonlance: Fifth Age Fading Suns Feng Shui Gatecrasher Hong Kong Action Theatre! Infinite Domains by Infinite Concepts Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar: The New Adventures of Fafhrd and Gray Mouser Vampire: The Dark Ages The World of Tales from the Crypt
1997 Æon/Trinity Armageddon: The End Times Armored Trooper VOTOMS Big Eyes, Small Mouth Blue Planet Champions: New Millennium Dzikie Pola (Polish RPG) Fuzion In Nomine Jovian Chronicles Legend of the Five Rings Men in Black Multiverser Neverwhere by Postmortem Studios Puppetland Usagi Yojimbo Roleplaying Game Werewolf: The Wild West
1998 Alternity Blood of Heroes Deadlands: Hell on Earth The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen Hercules & Xena Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game QAGS RuneSlayers Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game Tribe 8 Tribes by Steve Jackson Games Unknown Armies
1999
7th Sea Aberrant Agone (French RPG) All Flesh Must Be Eaten Brave New World Continuum DC Universe Roleplaying Game Dominion Rules (online) Dragon Ball Z: The Anime Adventure Game Furry Pirates Hunter: The Reckoning Lejendary Adventure Nobilis Powerkill Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Role Playing Game Star Trek: The Original Series Role-playing Game Violence Weird War Two: Crusade for Europe
2000s
2000 Age of Heroes by Brian Gleichman Dune: Chronicles of the Imperium Hero Wars (later renamed HeroQuest) Orkworld Star Wars Roleplaying Game by Wizards of the Coast World Tree
2001 Action! System Adventure! After the Bomb De Profundis The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game Exalted Forbidden Kingdoms Gear Krieg Godlike HackMaster Little Fears The Metabarons Roleplaying Game Mummy: The Resurrection Sorcerer Weird War II: Blood on the Rhine The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game The Witcher (Polish RPG)
2002 Active Exploits (German RPG) Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game The Burning Wheel Call of Cthulhu (d20) Cartoon Action Hour Children of the Sun d20 Modern Demon: The Fallen Engel Discworld Roleplaying Game Donjon Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium EverQuest Role-Playing Game Farscape Roleplaying Game InSpectres The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game Mechanical Dream Mutants & Masterminds Silver Age Sentinels Sláine: The Roleplaying Game of Celtic Heroes Spaceship Zero Spycraft Star Trek Roleplaying Game Terra Primate Steve Perrin's Quest Rules Transhuman Space Victorian Age: Vampire
2003 Angel Roleplaying Game Babylon 5 Roleplaying Game D6 Adventure Dead Inside Deliria Diana: Warrior Princess EABA F.A.T.A.L. FATE Fates Worse than Death Grimm High Adventure Role Playing Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game My Life with Master Neuroshima Orpheus Savage Worlds Silhouette CORE Sine Requie Stargate SG-1 Roleplaying Game Tri-Stat dX Unisystem Victoriana
2004 Castles & Crusades Chronicles of Darkness Conan: The Roleplaying Game Dogs in the Vineyard D6 Fantasy D6 Space Fireborn Lone Wolf: The Roleplaying Game Monastyr Paranoia XP Primetime Adventures The Shadow of Yesterday Tibet: The Roleplaying Game Vampire: The Requiem
2005 A+ Fantasy Anima: Beyond Fantasy (Spanish RPG) Army of Darkness Artesia: Adventures in the Known World Atlantis: The Second Age Blue Rose Capes City of Heroes by Eden Games Dawning Star Dread Etherscope A Game of Thrones Hollyworld Jeremiah: The Roleplaying Game Mage: The Awakening The Mountain Witch Omni System Serenity Spycraft 2.0 Starship Troopers: The Roleplaying Game Tékumel: Empire of the Petal Throne True20 Truth & Justice Usagi Yojimbo by Sanguine Productions Werewolf: The Forsaken World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game
2006 Basic Fantasy RPG Big Bang Comics RPG Cadwallon The Chronicles of Ramlar Corporation Cold City Crystalicum Don't Rest Your Head Heroic Visions Hollow Earth Expedition Lacuna Mortal Coil Nemesis - Roleplaying in Worlds of Horror by Arc Dream Publishing OSRIC Promethean: The Created The Shab-al-Hiri Roach Spirit of the Century Wild Talents The Zantabulous Zorcerer of Zo
2007 Aces & Eights: Shattered Frontier Battlestar Galactica Role Playing Game Changeling: The Lost The Esoterrorists Fear Itself Grey Ranks Labyrinth Lord Monte Cook's World of Darkness Reign Scion Star Wars Saga Edition Tenra War Witch Hunter: The Invisible World
2008 CthulhuTech Dark Heresy Dead Reign Demon Hunters Role Playing Game Ghosts of Albion by Eden Studios, Inc. Houses of the Blooded Hunter: The Vigil Innocents Hot War Legend of the Burning Sands Monsters and Other Childish Things Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game Mutant Future Starblazer Adventures Swords & Wizardry Trail of Cthulhu