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RPG 10 July 2018

A mobile jRPG game developed by Tri-Ace and published by Square Enix. In Star Ocean: Anamnesis, the players are leading characters known from previous entries in the series who are trying to get back to Earth. The gameplay is focused on battles with enemies and developing the group of warriors. In addition to a single player mode, the game features a multiplayer mode for up to four players.

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RPG 20 June 2019

The next installment of the popular jRPG series dedicated to younger players. The game features anime characters such as Touma Tsukinami, Natsume Amano, Keisuke Amano and Akinori Arihoshi.

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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 10 March 2016

A free-to-play mobile jRPG developed by Square Enix's in-house studio led by Jun Fujisawa (the creator of Dragon Quest IX, among other titles). The action of Fortune Tellers Academy takes place in the present day on Earth, although both magic and various kinds of supernatural creatures are real. The player assumes the role of a student that attends the eponymous school for people who are able to foresee the future.

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RPG 18 July 2017

Children of Zodiarcs is a tactical RPG developed by Cardboard Utopia. The game takes place in a fantasy world ruled by the Torian Empire. The empire owes its power to the titular Zodiarcs, ancient machines that were left behind by a long extinct civilization. We play as a band of thieves caught in the act of robbing one of the nobles. This draws the attention of the guards and other criminal groups, like the Cannibal Clan. Gameplay is based on turn-based combat.

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RPG 30 June 2015

A unique fantasy RPG from studio Marvelous that combines ideas from the Harvest Moon series and tactical, turn-based games, set in the universe of PoPoLoCrois manga. It tells a story of 13 year old prince Pietro Pakapuki, who sets out to help the people around the world of Galariland, haunted by dark powers.

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RPG 05 November 2015

A tactical jRPG developed with mobile devices in mind, created by experienced Korean developer Nexon. Fantasy War Tactics invites us to a classic fantasy realm, where you become a student of a prestigious university of magic arts. The protagonist intends to conquer the entire world, however, he discovers that it has already been conquered by the organization set up by his university rival. The hero decides to dethrone his rival and become the ruler of the world himself.

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RPG 17 May 2016

An enhanced version of Valkyria Chronicles, a tactical jRPG released for PlayStation 4 in 2008. The game takes us to a fictional world, resembling an alternative version of the World War II period Europe. The players assume the role of one of the members of the 7th platoon of the Atlantic Federation’s army, taking part in a series of plot-driven story missions that will decide the fate of Gallia, a small country invaded by the forces of the East European Imperial Alliance.

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RPG 10 July 2015

A compilation of three installments of Disgaea, a popular tactical jRPG series developed by Nippon Ichi Software. The package contains: Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice, Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten, and Disgaea Dimension 2: A Brighter Darkness. While each of the included title has received visual upgrades, including HD support, the collection doesn’t contain any DLCs or upgrades that appeared in PlayStation Vita ports.

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RPG 29 April 2015

Mobile version of the first entry in the classic jRPG series, which originally debuted in 1987, and two decades later received a complete remake for PC and PlayStation Portable console. Ys Chronicles 1 takes us to a magical fantasy world, which we traverse as a young swordsman Adol Christin. He will be the one to save country of Esteria from an invasion of demons, and he must find six holy tomes to defeat the evil.

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RPG 25 June 2015

Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest is another game in the popular tactical jRPG series developed by Intelligent Systems. The plot has been divided into two paths: Hoshido in Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright, and Nohr in Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest. In Conquest, we play as Corrin, a member of the Nohr faction. Exploration and battles on vast maps are the core elements of gameplay in Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest. The player's additional quest is to start a revolution in the kingdom.

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RPG 20 April 2010

Chaos Rings is a jRPG game with a turn-based combat system. While playing, we lead a duo of heroes and are mainly engaged in exploring dungeons, developing character skills and battles with monsters.

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RPG 03 February 2015

A dungeon crawler developed by Nippon Ichi Software. Criminal Girls: Invite Only is a new and updated version of an original jRPG released on PlayStation Portable in 2010. The player takes care of the souls of seven girls suffering punishments in hell. The protagonists’ sins can be atoned once they climb the highest floor of the hellish spire and defeat various monsters – only then can they earn the right to be reborn in the real world.

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RPG 13 September 2016

A turn-based jRPG with roguelike features developed by Spike Chunsoft. The title is a spin-off of the Mystery Dungeon series based on One Way Heroics, an independent game that is popular in Japan. 20 playable characters are available in the game and among them there are the characters from such series as Danganronpa and Shiren the Wanderer. Not all of them are playable from the start – the player must collect points which then can be spent on buying new perks and character classes.

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RPG 22 October 2015

A mobile RPG that resembles the famous Pokemon series. The players assume the role of a young boy who intends to become a master monster trainer. In the game, we traverse locations in search of new beasts. The fun boils down to catching encountered creatures and training them to make a team that will then be sent to fight other trainers' creatures. In total, there are over 900 monsters to catch, all divided into several categories (fire, water, shadow, etc.).

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RPG 26 November 2015

A Japanese RPG and a spin-off to the Hyperdimension Neptunia series. The game was developed by Felistella studio and tells the stories of various female characters related to the video game industry. The main protagonist of the game is If, a girl who tries to solve the mystery of a theft of a special book that contains the history of the world written in it.

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RPG 13 February 2018

A unique jRPG by Syupro-DX and Nippon Ichi Software. In The Longest Five Minutes you play as a warrior who's trying to regain his lost memories. The game starts in an unusual way — it begins with the final boss fight. The protagonist, however, can remember neither happened on the way to the dark lord's dwelling nor how to defeat the enemy.

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RPG 07 April 2016

A sequel to the browser MMORPG game League of Angels. Similarly as the first installment, the sequel is a free-to-play game with microtransactions. League of Angels II invites the players to a fantasy world in which a constant fight against the forces of evil takes place. Combat in the game is turn-based and can be fully automated, allowing the team of a few persons to perform attacks and special attacks on their own.

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RPG 18 February 2016

A jRPG developed by Tokyo RPG Factory, also known as "Ikenie to Yuki no Setsuna" in Japan. It makes references to the classics of the genre and games such as the legendary classic Chrono Trigger. The story is set in a land of ever-lasting winter. Furthermore, the region is regularly terrorized by demons. In order to satisfy them, the inhabitants decide to sacrifice a girl, the game's eponymous protagonist.

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RPG 06 June 2017

A dungeon crawler RPG which is the third installment in the Cladun series. Similar to the previous iterations, Cladun Returns: This is Sengoku! was created by Nippon Ichi Software. The player is once again taken to the magical world of Arcanus Cella, which is a base of operations for heroes that set out on expeditions to dangerous dungeons. This time, the game begins at the end of the Sengoku period in Japan, when the country was brought to its knees by internal wars and rebellions.

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RPG 30 November 1999

A Japanese role-playing game in the horror convention. The title is embedded in the universe with the time developed through the Shadow Hearts cycle. The action of the game takes place in 1898 and focuses on a young woman exploring the secrets of a gloomy monastery. In terms of mechanics, production combines the exploration of a prerendered environment with real-time, three-dimensional battlefields.

PS1

RPG 18 October 1999

Continuation of the Japanese RPG action, which largely breaks with the original, offering a new graphic style, better audio-visual setting and much less serious styling. The title, unlike many other species representatives, offers many logical challenges.

PS1

RPG 30 June 1995

Tactical jRPG maintained in old-school 2D graphics. One of the first representatives of the genre released on PlayStation 1. The production tells the story of a group of heroes who try to save the world from the forces of darkness.

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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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