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1. Short for "role-playing game." A game in which you play a role. Games like Final Fantasy and Pokemon
Person 1: "I love RPGs, they are so awesome."
Person 2: "Yeah, me too! My favorites are Pokemon and EarthBound."
Person 1: "Wait, what? I was talking about rocket propelled grenades!
Person 2: *sighs and leaves"
RPG by TheLopman May 28, 2015
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Commonly known to serious gamers as "Role playing game" where you play as a made up character or team to achieve a goal

(final fantasy is the best)
Dan bought his RPG

Guy: YO whos the char in that game?
dude: a rabbit!!
RPG by matt March 1, 2005
Dude I only went to see the Avengers because I heard SLJ was gunna use an RPG! I creamed!
RPG by licking buttholes October 27, 2012
Fallout 4 is the best RPG game of 2015
rpg by RqFik June 30, 2016
TL;DR definition:

A game where you
level up character(s), usually gain experience points
have stats

gain items that go in an inventory
Usually fight other characters
Usually uses a text based system but not always

It also usually works just like how a tabletop RPG does but in a videogame.

What it's NOT:

Just a game where there's a character that has a role you play, there's a large amount of other games that have that description and aren't RPGs.

A game that has a typically fantasy environment, those are just what a lot of RPGs have, but it doesn't define what an RPG is. An RPG could be about food, dogs,markets, etc.

Two examples of RPGs are Undertale and Pokemon.
Person 1: What genre is Earthbound?

Person 2: I think it's an RPG.
RPG by Bluepelt- February 24, 2019