While going on epic adventures alone can be fun, many players will find more enjoyment exploring various worlds with a couple of friends. These friends don't even need to be other players as many games have taken the time to create various interesting and compelling companions that a player can recruit to help them on their quests.
While some of these titles have a small cast of characters for a player to choose from, others have given players not only the freedom of plenty of other characters to get to know; some have also given players the power of creating their own companions. That's why these games have the most companions by far.
8 Mass Effect 3 – 8
Players have accumulated multiple different companions during their time with the Mass Effect franchise. Gradually, this has all built up to players having the possible eight characters – technically seven due to one dying in the first game while the other lives – that are available on the Normandy during Mass Effect 3.
Although a player can't have all eight follow them around during missions at the same time; having so many great companions to decide from gives players enough variety to mix and match their team to best fit the purpose they need them to fulfill.
7 Dragon Age: Inquisition – 9
Another game with plenty of party members created by BioWare is Dragon Age: Inquisition. Many of the characters players can choose from are completely new to the franchise, while others like Varric and Cassandra appear once more to aid the player. Once again, the Inquisitor cannot have all nine members follow them at once, and therefore they would need to select only three to take along with them.
What makes Dragon Age another interesting title is the in-depth stories that every single companion has that allows the player to get to know them more. Not to forget mentioning that some of them even have a possible romance for the player to get involved in.
6 Miitopia – 10
In Miitopia players are free to create their own roster of characters to take on adventures with them. Allowing the player to not only create Miis that look identical to family or friends but also selecting a class for them to specialize in. Across their adventures with this 3DS title, players are able to make a total of ten companions, though once again only a few of these can be used at a time.
Listening to these characters interact with one another while also taking them on an epic quest makes for an incredibly hilarious story that is only made better through even the side characters being Miis the player has also chosen.
5 Final Fantasy 6 – 14
Final Fantasy 6 by far has the most playable characters or party members available to a player in the entire RPG franchise. Players are likely to meet every one of these characters on their adventures with two of them even being a secret that the player will need to uncover.
Some of these companions will even leave the player's team occasionally where they will then once again need to be recruited. These may be the main roster of characters the player can have on their party, but there are still multiple other members that can be temporarily recruited by the player.
4 Baldur's Gate 2 – 17
Baldur's Gate is another RPG franchise with plenty of companions for the player to uncover during their adventures. As a player can have a party of six during their adventures in Baldur's Gate 2, there is a large variety of interesting characters both in the base game and the expansions for players to get to know.
Each of these companions will require the player to first complete a quest for them to gain their loyalty before they will decide to follow the player into battle. Naturally, these characters also have their own morals that a player will need to be considerate of when making decisions with certain characters in the party.
3 Skyrim – 66
Unlike other games mentioned, Skyrim has countless followers for a player to recruit, though they can only have one of them following them at a time. This may seem questionable to some players, especially as there are so many to choose from. However, this allows for the player to form an even closer bond with their follower.
While some of these followers carry more value than others, such as gaining their services through competing a quest line, others can simply be purchased in Inns for the right amount of gold.
2 Suikoden – 108
The main purpose of Suikoden is collecting a large party of characters even though a player can only have a party of six people at a time. While there are countless party members available to the player, they don't need to worry about collecting every single one of them unless they are planning on getting a certain ending.
Once again similar to Final Fantasy 6, some of these party members may only be temporarily available to the character or only used in certain major battles; these still make them valid companions that the player may wish to pursue at certain points of their pixel adventure in Suikoden.
1 Dragon's Dogma – Countless
Out of all the games that allow players to have companions, Capcom's Dragon's Dogma excels against all other titles through the variety of companions – better known as Pawns – in this hack and slash RPG title. While the player can only make one Pawn, which is their most loyal companion, they can proceed to recruit two more that have been created by other players of the title.
As a player may assume, over the years with more players enjoying Dragon's Dogma, this has led to plenty more Pawns becoming available; some of them even carry an immense amount of power with them that a player will want to take advantage of.