Dreamcast | Elemental Gimmick Gear | Birthday | ARPG with pretty visuals and some mech combat |
DS | Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days | h.a.n.d. Inc./Square Enix | Stars Organization XIII, takes place parallel to Chain of Memories; mission-like structure with the same ARPG gameplay |
GBA | Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team | Chunsoft | Third-person randomized dungeon crawler with Pokemon, sister Blue version was a DS 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 |
NES | Dragon Warrior | Chunsoft | Solo questing to save the kingdom! |
PS2 | Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories | Nippon Ichi | More SRPG demon shenanigans! |
PS3 | Lost Dimension | Lancarse | RPG/visual novel hybrid with lots of party betrayal, replayability, and a tactical style of combat |
PS3 | Vagrant Story (PSone Classics) | Square | See PSX |
PS4 | Adventure Academia: The Fractured Continent (DL only) | Acquire | A Class of Heroes spinoff that tries to marry RTS and turn-based strategy gameplay and succeeds at neither |
PS4 | Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed | Acquire | See PS3 |
PS4 | Asdivine Kamura | Exe-Create | See XBO |
PS4 | Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey | Gust | Second game in the Mysterious storyline; time limit exists for initial alchemy certification exam, alchemy can be done at a portable atelier |
PS4 | Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition | Armor Project/Square Enix | See Switch |
PS4 | Elden Ring | FromSoftware | See PS5 |
PS5 | Star Ocean: The Divine Force | Tri-Ace | A return to dual protagonists and the most dynamic combat system in the series to date |
PSP | Final Fantasy III (DL only) | Matrix Software/Square Enix | Port of the DS version of the game |
PSX | SaGa Frontier | Square | 7 scenarios with complicated leveling mechanics, woefully left unfinished |
Switch | Asdivine Kamura (DL only) | Exe-Create | See XBO |
Switch | Monark | FuRyu | See PS5 |
Turbografx-CD | Exile: Wicked Phenomenon | Telenet Japan | Badass cover art, less religious than others in the series, allows switching characters during side-scrolling sections |
Vita | Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars | Spike Chunsoft | See 3DS |
Vita | Demon Gaze II | Kadokawa/Experience | Still first-person dungeoneering, but takes away the ability to create party members; still a bit fanservicey |
Vita | Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (DL only) | Square Enix/Quest | See PSP |
Xbox Series | Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis | Sega Online R&D | An expansion/replacement of sorts of the original MMO that takes place 1000 years in the future |
Xbox Series | Yakuza: Like a Dragon | Ryu ga Gotoku Studio | See XBO |