3DS | LBX: Little Battlers eXperience | Level-5 | An ARPG with arena-styled combat where you fight your teensy robots and level them up to make them better |
3DS | The Denpa Men 3: The Rise of Digitoll (DL only) | Genius Sonority | Dual-type Denpa Men now exist, as do more antenna shapes, monsters, and sidequest-type activities! |
DS | Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow | Konami | Metroidvania direct sequel to Aria of Sorrow with a more anime design aesthetic, requires the stylus to draw symbols |
DS | Harvest Moon DS: Island of Happiness | Tose | Same farming, but now on a deserted island! Limited to touchscreen controls |
GameCube | Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean | Tri-Crescendo | A curious take on card-based combat, poor quality voice acting |
GB+GBC | Pokemon Gold/Silver | Game Freak | More mons, a day/night system, and the ability to revisit the entire previous region |
GBA | Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones | Intelligent Systems | Actually FE8, set in a separate continuity to the previous games |
JP FC | Digital Devil Monogatari: Megami Tensei II | Atlus | Considered to be the origin of the series' heavy-handed order vs chaos theme, good old-fashioned demon negotiation and recruitment |
JP FC | Mouryou Senki Madara | Konami | Dark and challenging! Autonomous combat! Anime-based! |
JP Game Gear | Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible | Multimedia Intelligence Transfer | Monster collecting with a bit of kiddie MegaTen flair |
JP GB+GBC | God Medicine: Fantasy Sekai no Tanjou | KCEN | It's a standard JRPG that makes fun of standard JRPGs! |
JP PSX | Racing Lagoon | Squaresoft | THE street racing/JRPG hybrid, stylish and jazzy |
NES | Little Ninja Brothers | Culture Brain | A tad racially insensitive, first game in the Super Chinese series to have RPG elements |
NES | The Magic of Scheherazade | Culture Brain | Could get pretty oof in cultural stereotypes, a mix of turn-based and ARPG gameplay |
PS2 | Tsugunai: Atonement | Cattle Call | Broken up into various quests rather than one fully linear experience- not all quests revolve around combat |
PS3 | Eiyuu Senki: The World Conquest (DL only) | Tenco/5pb. | An SRPG with an alternative historical slant - major world leaders are all portrayed as women; stats are built by completing sidequests and upgrading troops |
PS4 | Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings DX (DL only) | Gust | See Switch |
PS4 | Azur Lane: Crosswave | Felistella/Idea Factory | Third person 3D combat featuring personifications of battleships that you can marry because of course you can; mission-based structure and individual leveling systems abound |
PS4 | Dragon's Crown Pro | Vanillaware | Adds an orchestral soundtrack and narrator content that was previously DLC, otherwise see PS3 |
PS4 | Revenant Dogma | Exe-Create | See Vita |
PS4 | Summon Night 6: Lost Borders | Media.Vision | See Vita |
PS4 | Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World | Artdink | See Switch |
PSP | Breath of Fire III (DL only) | Capcom | Slightly enhanced port of the original, with improved music and some minor tweaks to graphics and gameplay |
PSP | Final Fantasy VII (PSone Classics) | Square | See PSX |
PSP | Ys Seven | Falcom | Adds party members to the regular Ys formula, in addition to making weapon types (slashing, blunt) determine an enemy's susceptibility to them |
PSX | Battle Hunter | Success | SRPG of sorts with card-based movement and attack |
PSX | Parasite Eve | Square | Horror JRPG based on a novel, positioning-based combat system |
SNES | Final Fantasy II | Square | Actually Final Fantasy IV, Introduced the Active Time Battle system and removed the ability to customize party members |
SNES | Final Fantasy Mystic Quest | Square | Baby Final Fantasy! |
SNES | Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen | Quest | Epic overarching story with RTS elements |
Switch | Artifact Adventure Gaiden DX | Bluffman Games | Game Boy-like aesthetic with a generally non-linear world; player choices affect game progession in significant fashion |
Switch | Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition | D4 Enterprise/Square Enix | See PS4 |
Switch | Croixleur Sigma | Souvenir Circ | See PS4 |
Switch | Death end re;Quest 2 | Compile Heart/Idea Factory | See PS4 |
Switch | Harvest Moon: Light of Hope | Tabot | See PS4 |
Switch | Haunted Dungeons: Hyakki Castle (DL only, delisted) | Asakusa Studios | See PS4 |
Switch | Little Town Hero | Game Freak | See XBO |
Switch | Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World | Gust | See PS4 |
Switch | Sonic Frontiers | Sonic Team | See PS5 |
Turbografx-CD | Ys III: Wanderers From Ys | Falcom/Alfa System | It's sidescrolling Ys- that's all there is to it |
Vita | Breath of Fire IV (PSone Classics) | Capcom | See PSX |
Vita | ClaDun Returns: This is Sengoku! (DL only) | Nippon Ichi | Retro-styled dungeon crawling like its predecessors, with lots of classes to choose from and many randomized elements |
Vita | Demon Gaze | Kadokawa/Experience | A first-person dungeon crawler with a fairly large amount of fan service and the ability to recruit demons in order to grind enough money to pay your innkeeper the rent due |
Vita | Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky | Tri-Ace/Spike Chunsoft | Plays a lot like Valkyrie Profile (comes from the same studio), has multiple endings depending on in-game choices |
Vita | Revenant Dogma | Exe-Create | It's Kemco again, with a game you've likely played before (and better); characters can transform mid-combat so that's a thing |
Vita | Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception | Aquaplus | First localized title in the series, an SRPG/visual novel mix that requires no knowledge of the game that came before it; adding combos to an attack can change its properties |
Wii | Arc Rise Fantasia | Imageepoch | Lazy English voice acting, but a decent turn-based RPG otherwise |
Xbox One | Persona 5 Royal | Atlus | See PS5 |
Xbox Series | Ghost Sync (DL only) | Exe-Create | See PS5 |
Xbox Series | Yakuza 3 Remastered (DL only) | Ryu ga Gotoku Studio | See PS4 |