There’s a lot of subgenres I wanted to include, but I felt this document was already too long. Here’s more of them:

• DBRPG = Deck-building RPG
• SurRPG = Survival RPG
• RLRPG = Rogue-like RPG
• SoRPG = Souls-like RPG

I don’t know why I overlooked GRPGs since Germany has some pretty important ones. You mentioned Gothic, but there’s also the Sacred series and ELEX series.

I’d say that while both GRPGs and PRPGs are releated to each other, there’s some big differences that go beyond nationality. I’d say GRPGs are more like a muddy Renaissance faire going on while PRPGs have more of a storybook style.