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RPG 02 November 2016

The eighteenth major installment of Atelier, an complex, long-running jRPG series developed since 1997 mainly by Gust, a Japanese studio. We assume the role of the eponymous girl, Firis Mistlud, who decides to leave her underground mining town and embark on a journey into the unknown. On the surface, the heroine must face various challenges but her alchemic knowledge and mining experience help her get out of trouble.

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RPG 25 September 2014

A continuation to a jRPG bearing the same title. The game is part of a larger universe known from the The Legend of Heroes series. Trails of Cold Steel II begins a month after the events depicted in the first installment. The civil war in Erebonia began for good. Rean's goals are to find the remaining students from the Seventh Grade, as well as to put an end to the bloody conflict, which has torn the protagonist's native country apart.

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Strategy 11 February 2015

A mobile strategy game and a debut production of the Japanese studio BlazeGames. Akihiko Yoshida, art director of such hits as Final Fantasy Tactics or Bravely Default, was involved in its development. Battle Champs bears a resemblance to the famous Clash of Clans — the player’s task is to gather resources, build a settlement, and then defend it from other participants’ attacks. Apart from regular combat units, giants play an important role in Battle Champs.

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RPG 03 November 2017

.hack//G.U. Last Recode is a collection of three Japanese RPGs initially released on PlayStation 2 between 2006-2007: hack//G.U. vol. 1//Rebirth, .hack//G.U. Vol.2//Reminisce, and .hack//G.U. Vol.3//Redemption. All three have been developed by CyberConnect2, also responsible for working on the remastered editions. These MMORPGs allow the player to visit a virtual world, in which they has to complete consecutive tasks and fight enemies in real time with a team of over a dozen warriors.

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RPG 24 June 1999

Conversion of a Japanese RPG game previously released on Sega Saturn. The production is distinguished by an original system of character development and introducing a bit of freshness to the traditional turn-based model of the clash mechanics.

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RPG 15 February 2018

Secret of Mana is a remake of the classic action jRPG from 1993. The game was developed by Square Enix. The original title was released in Japan under the title Seiken Densetsu 2. The game takes place in a fantasy world that the player must save from the powerful Empire. During the game the player is exploring the world, speaking to non-playable characters, completing quests and fighting enemies by using an action-based combat system.

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RPG 21 September 2016

A hybrid of a visual novel and a tactical role-playing game. The title was developed by studio Leaf and company Aquaplus. The game is a direct sequel to Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception and tells the further story of Haku and his friends who are tasked with assuming control of the military forces of the Yamato Empire and using them to protect the territory from hostile neighbors. Like before, long visual novel sequences are intertwining with very short tactical battles.

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RPG 27 October 2016

A Japanese action role-playing game by Aquria, based on the popular Sword Art Online franchise, which started with a novel series by Reki Kawahara. The game is set in the near future in Japan, where virtual reality MMORPGs are wildly popular. The story of Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization takes place inside one of such games, called Sword Art: Origin, which gained popularity after a group of players was trapped in it.

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RPG 24 August 2017

A sequel to the action RPG from the Japanese studio Gust. Nights of Azure 2 lets us revisit the dark fantasy world, in which humanity rules only by daylight, while night belongs to demonic minions of the Night Lord. However, we won’t see any old faces from first game, as the second game focuses on completely new characters. Players take role of Ashule, a warrior who dies while trying to defend her friend Liliana from a powerful demon and is reborn as half-demonic being.

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RPG 17 November 2017

Pokemon Ultra Sun is yet another installment of the popular RPG series developed by Game Freak for Nintendo handheld consoles. It was released along with Pokemon Ultra Moon as the improved versions of the 7th generation handheld consoles launch titles, Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon. Once again, we play as a novice Pokemon trainer who desires to become the very best trainer in the world.

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RPG 30 March 2017

A conventional jRPG featuring a turn-based combat system. Blue Reflection was inspired by games such as Persona 4, and anime series and comic books belonging to the magical girl genre. The game was developed by Gust - a studio popular mainly for the Atelier series, which encompasses several installments. The game is set in contemporary Japan. Hinako, the protagonist, is an ordinary girl who attends high-school, but one day she is taken to an alternative dimension inhabited by dangerous monsters.

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RPG 17 December 1998

The second part of the Japanese RPG series, which is distinguished by the number of available heroes to join and a difficult story, touching on the problems of slavery and tyranny, among others. Suicoden II is considered to be one of the best representatives of the species of all time.

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RPG 08 February 2018

Mercenaries Saga Chronicles is a set consisting of a trilogy of tactical Japanese role-playing games that were previously released on various portable devices and handheld consoles. All three games enable the players to assume the role of leaders of small mercenary squads that are participating in turn-based battles.

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RPG 10 October 2023

Long Gone Days is a two-dimensional hybrid of a turn-based RPG, dialogue-based visual novel and a shooter. In the dystopian version of modern Russia a sniper named Rourke discovers secrets about an operation conducted by his commanders in an underground base. The man deserts from his unit and together with a group of friends he tries to discover the truth about the war.

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RPG 14 June 2018

An improved version of the tactical RPG God Wars: Future Past. The players are taken to a fantasy world inspired by Japanese myths and take part in an adventure of Princess Kaguya.

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RPG 14 December 2016

An action-RPG, which takes the player to a fantasy world of Orience. The land is torn by a conflict between four nations. The player assumes the role of a character they create themselves at the beginning of the game; afterwards, the player leads them to battle in the story campaign, as well as in both PvE and PvP multiplayer variants. The game is distributed in a free-to-play business model.

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RPG 10 July 2018

A remaster of Shining Resonance published on PlayStation 3 in 2014. The game offers new playable characters, improved graphics, and - in contrast to the original - it was released also outside Japan.

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RPG 14 October 1999

Arcade Japanese action RPG, whose unique element is two characters with different character, goal and style of fight. For each of them, the creators prepared a separate story.

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RPG 19 January 2018

Developed by Bandai Namco, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Hacker's Memory is a jRPG set in a universe of a popular anime series. The game brings a continuation to Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth (2015).

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RPG 08 July 1999

Introducing numerous changes in the fun system and offering improved audio-visual setting continuation of the turn-based Japanese RPG. The production of Konami once again tells a difficult, moving political story.

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Princess and Knight is an actionRPG game designed exclusively for Nintendo DS. Blueside studio is responsible for working on it, which earlier prepared three parts of Kingdom Under Fire series.

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RPG 18 December 2008

The next installment of the popular RPG series. We take control of the members of the Star of Destiny, crossing the magical land, solving quests and defeating enemies.

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RPG 21 October 2008

Star Ocean: First Departure is a remake of the 1996 release of RPG, which was created by Square Enix studio.

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RPG 22 July 2008

The second part of a series of humorous Japanese RPGs telling about the adventures of the sixteen-year-old warrior Ninja. During our journey, we travel, so numerous, randomly generated underground, perform a lot of quests, defeat hundreds of enemies and gain a pile of items.

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