3DS | Dragon Ball: Fusions | Ganbarion | Create an avatar and engage in turn-based combat that does a decent job at mimicking the actual action of the series, as well as fuse characters (as the title implies) |
3DS | Project X Zone 2 | Monolith Soft | Plays the same as its predecessor, but Segata Sanshiro is an available character; thereby making this game the best ever- I don't make the rules |
3DS | Rune Factory 4 | Neverland | The farming/dungeon exploring/marriage sim returns; crafting new equipment is essential to improving stats, your child can also join you in combat |
DS | Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team | Chunsoft | Companion to the GBA's Red Rescue Team, with Pokemon exploring randomized labyrinths in classic Mystery Dungeon style |
GB+GBC | Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors | Flight-Plan | Saiyan-Buu sagas featured, card-based combat, blah blah blah |
GBA | Final Fantasy V Advance | Square Enix/Tose | Updated graphics, new jobs, and a new boss battle compared to the original |
JP FC | Dragon Ball: Dai Maou Fukkatsu | D&D Corp/Tose | Plays kinda like a card-based board game |
JP FC | Jajamaru Ninpou Chou | NMK | Almost came out in the States, but alas… Another DW clone where you can only fight one enemy at a time |
JP FC | Ys III: Wanderers From Ys | Falcom | Changes the battles to be side-scrolling rather than top-down and allows Adol to swing his sword/jump |
JP Game Gear | Phantasy Star Gaiden | Japan System Supply | Spinoff story set between Phantasy Star I and II, similar gameplay |
Neo Geo Pocket | Evolution: Eternal Dungeons (PAL/JP only) | Sting | A port of Evolution with a major natural graphical change, an altered translation, and more limited exploration |
PS2 | Forever Kingdom | FromSoftware | Sequel to Evergrace, similar equipment-focused character growth, ARPG where all characters share damage taken |
PS2 | Shining Force EXA | Neverland | Isometric ARPG with two protagonists and some town-building, recycles many assets from Shining Force Neo |
PS3 | Time and Eternity | Imageepoch | Strange, oft-criticized game with an offbeat anime-hybrid art style, dating-sim elements, and a single party member; repetitive gameplay |
PS3 | Yakuza 3 | Amusement Vision/Sega | Continues Kiryu's story but takes out a fair amount of content due to rushed localization (hostess clubs, for example) |
PS4 | Armed Emeth (DL only) | Hit-Point | See XS |
PS4 | Granblue Fantasy: Versus | Arc System Works | Contains an RPG mode that plays like a 2D brawler using the control scheme of the base fighting game; lots of equipment to manage |
PS4 | Onigiri (DL only) | Cyberstep | See PS4 |
PS4 | Silver Nornir (DL only) | WorldWideSoftware | See XS |
PS4 | Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization | Aquria | See Vita |
PS4 | The Knight of Queen (DL only) | VR RPG Inc. | See Switch |
PS4 | Touhou Genso Wanderer | Aqua Style | See Vita |
PS4 | Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana | Falcom | Has more dungeons and forms for Dana than the Vita version, at the expense of some costumes |
PS4 | Ys: Memories of Celceta | Falcom | Adds a Japanese voice option, otherwise see Vita |
PS5 | Demoniaca: Everlasting Night (DL only) | AKI/Eastasiasoft | See XS |
PSP | ClaDun x2 (DL only) | System Prisma/Nippon Ichi | More dungeon-crawling/RPG Maker hybrid goodness! |
PSX | Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring | DreamFactory | It's mostly a fighting game with some FFVII characters, but it also has an ARPG quest mode! |
PSX | Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure | Nippon Ichi | SRPG with painfully easy battles and a musical theme |
Saturn | Shining Force III | Camelot | Technically only Scenario 1 of the full Shining Force III story |
SNES | Arcana | HAL Laboratory | Card-focused 1st-person dungeon crawl |
SNES | Drakkhen | Kemco/Infogrames | Sparsely populated, customizable characters that attack using AI, and lots of water to hilariously drown in |
Switch | Antiquia Lost (DL only) | Exe-Create | See Vita |
Switch | Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings | Gust | See PS4 |
Switch | Dungeon Village 2 (DL only) | Kairosoft | Very similar to the first game, but adds some layes of complexity to the town management-sim |
Switch | Legend of the Tetrarchs (DL only) | Hit-Point | See XBO |
Switch | Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX | Spike Chunsoft | Combined remake of Red/Blue Rescue Team with similar gameplay: exploring dungeons and making use of type advantages to help delve further |
Switch | Pokemon Sword/Shield | Game Freak | First-ever mainline console Pokemon game; not all Pokemon can be caught/are featured in the National Pokedex; regional theme is British |
Switch | Voice of Cards: The Beasts of Burden (DL only) | Square Enix | Doesn't drastically shake up the formula from the first 2 games, but does add a monster-taming mechanic and features a female GM |
Vita | Damascus Gear: Operation Tokyo | Aplus | An isometric dungeon crawler of sorts where you pilot a mech to complete missions, which give you parts to upgrade your stats with |
Vita | End of Serenity (DL only) | Kemco | See PSP |
Vita | Gungnir (DL only) | Sting | See PSP |
Vita | Secret of Mana (DL only) | Q Studios/Square | Remade in 3D with a lot of the original visual charm missing, a new translation, adds voiced dialogue and makes QoL changes |
Vita | Ys: The Oath in Felghana (DL only) | Falcom | See PSP |
Wii | Harvest Moon: Animal Parade | Marvelous Entertainment | All the farming you'd expect, but with a bigger variety of animals (many of them rideable)! |
Xbox 360 | Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin | FromSoftware | The definitive edition of Dark Souls II |
Xbox 360 | Ninety-Nine Nights II | Q Entertainment/Feelplus | Darker in tone than the first game, but with worse reviews; plays like its predecessor |
Xbox One | Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition | Armor Project/Square Enix | See Switch |
Xbox Series | Asdivine Saga (DL only) | Exe-Create | Another day, another Kemco game- you can give gifts to your female party members to influence your ending- otherwise same ol', same ol' |
Xbox Series | Silver Nornir (DL only) | WorldWideSoftware | By-the-books Kemco fare that moves too fast for its own good, both in plot and gameplay |
Xbox Series | The DioField Chronicle | Lancarse/Square Enix | See PS5 |