How about Spyro the dragon

Good suggestion! I do have the Reignited Trilogy, and it is most good :)

Argh I saw an ad on this site for a 2D RPG style game where you play as a dragon solving a mystery of a burned down bakery or something.

The Mystery of Caketropolis! I have it and have completed it, and highly recommend it!

Drakengard (Human and dragon-riding segments), Panzer Dragoon (Riding a dragon), Dragon Rage (Just a dragon), Spyro (Duh?), Nethack (Without mods, you can permanently morph into one; with mods, you can start as one), Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (Like Nethack), Chronicles Of Pern (Like Drakengard, but less nihilistic), Monster Hunter: Wings Of Ruin (Dragons are party members), Breath Of Fire (Your characters can change into dragons), Cthulhu Saves The World (Late-game party member is a dragon), and there are several pay-to-win shovelware MMOs floating around right now.

There isn't a drought; I'm pretty sure there are websites with lists if ya look.

I did have a look at lists, unfortunately most seem to be very low budget affairs or decades old. Thanks for the suggestions :)

Draconia is in pretty active development! The game touts having a wide variety of dragon species to play and robust customization, and they're also working on MMORPG elements as part of the storyline.

That looks interesting. Have you tried it? :)

I got the prerelease copy of the game, which at the time it was slightly lacking with the questing (mainly just collecting resources/doing errands). Dunno if it’s still the case as it was several months since I touched it, but there may be a little more polish now!

An oldie but a goldie is I Of The Dragon, if you can bare the dated graphics!
ARK if you find a server that has Play As A Dino mod on it, most servers don't have any restrictions on it and dragons/wyverns are an option!

There's a few others aside from the ones listed by people above but the names escape me currently.

Thanks for the suggestion! I might see if I can pick up a copy anywhere :)

Skyrim!... I mean Dovahkin... dragonborn.... Yeah I am just being silly x3

I wasn't mad on the dragons in Skyrim tbh, they were okay :)

Divinity II (not original sin) lets you turn into a dragon for some parts of the game. I really don't like the game sadly :/
Divinity Dragon Commander is a weird 3rd person shooter / RTS hybrid where you assist your troops as a dragon. Kinda fun, ngl!

Edit: I forgot to mention Divinity 2 Original sin has a mod where you play as a dragon class but it's absurdly powerful to the point it makes the game not fun.

I think I might own those actually, except for Original Sin 2. I had heard that Divinity II wasn't amazing...

Draconia, Day of Dragons

Someone did mention that one. How do you find it? Sometimes early access games can be a bit... barebones.

Draconia got public not too long ago so there's not much you can do. But Day of dragons is kinda fun with friends :D

Day of Dragons had some drama early on, but it looks like the creator is trying to deliver on promises, even if he's really pushing the monetization element more than he originally insisted. Realistically you don't have to pay anything but the base price of the game to be able to access all the content if you can find a group to nest you in as each of the dragons, you can keep it so lo long as you stay alive. To call it a game is...strongly worded. It shows really good promise but the developer is notoriously slow to make progress.

A year ago I would have said not to try it, but after looking at some of the stuff that is in the pipeline I can safely say it will be a decent game in the future.

Thanks, I'll have a look at that, too :)

Day of Dragons is not a good one after all the disgusting drama.

Darn I want to make one. XC

Same :/

Well that and especially dinosaurs. That’s also a rare type

I think there's a game called The Isle, where you play as Dinosaurs :)

Yes but I want single player not mmo

DGP - Dragon Game Projekt
A project of a group of very very skilled animators, modelers and game designers which has some of the best animations in this sector there are. Also I have never tested something where the flying feels just so extremely natural than this brilliant masterpiece. It’s still in the very early stages but has a nice little community and is great fun to play. Though one would need to gain tester access to it in order to play.
https://twitter.com/dgp_game

Thanks for the suggestion, I'm in their Discord group and can't wait to see more. Do they have any kind of ETA on when they're going to release a playable alpha? :)

It's playable to a certain extend in Sandbox-Mode but also in the tiny Game mode which is called "Thieves VS Hunters" where you play either a dragon/wyvern and try to protect your hoard while others play as the thieves, little Kobold like Lizards who try to steal your valuables and need to avoid the dragons rage about this. These matches can be really fun.

That does sound fun :)

It does look really impressive :)

If you would like to see more or learn more about it, let me know.

I would, but I am already in the Discord server :)

Well theres one game that my friend is making