role-playing game
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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A martial arts role-playing game “Black Myth: Wukong,” inspired by the classical Chinese novel “Journey to the West,” notched record-breaking sales after its release in 2024 and lapped up rave reviews from Western gamers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026
While we could spend hours in front of a screen with the latest “Zelda” title, the dice-focused tabletop role-playing game was viewed with suspicion, a ’70s-era invention that belonged to a certain subset of nerd.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
The hit TV show is an adaptation of the popular role-playing game of the same name, set 200 years after a nuclear war leaves the Earth a wasteland.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025
A mixture of first-person shooter and role-playing game, part one stood out in 2009 thanks to its cartoonish art style, edgy humour and co-operative multiplayer modes.
From BBC • Sep. 13, 2025
As Morrow spoke, he walked over to one of Aech’s bookshelves and began to browse through some vintage role-playing game supplements.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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