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Featuring a story written by Persona veteran Tadashi Satomi, The Caligula Effect takes you inside a digital prison filled with brainwashed high school students, evil musicians, and an all-powerful virtual idol.  Follow the exploits of the Go-Home Club, a tight-knit group of Kishimai High School students who have realized that their lives are nothing more … Continue reading “The Caligula Effect”

Year: 2016

Platforms: PS Vita

Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)

Theme: Turn-based strategy


Chaos Rings is an RPG detailing the fates of five couples who are summoned against their wills to the mysterious “Ark Arena” where they must battle each other in a tournament with the ultimate prize being immortality. The player gets to choose between two of these couples at first (Escher/Musiea, Eluca/Zhamo) with two more becoming … Continue reading “Chaos Rings”

Year: 2010

Platforms: Android, PS Vita, Windows Phone, iPad, iPhone

Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)

Theme: Turn-based strategy


For twenty years, Attera has been under attack from monsters spawning from anomalies called Dusk Circles. To fight those monsters, people with the Star God Brand, called Disciples, are gathered and trained in a school in Fort City. The Dusk Circles are said to appear because of mankind’s desires. Eight such circles forming the Pandora … Continue reading “Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars”

Year: 2013

Platforms: Nintendo 3DS, PS Vita, Windows

Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)

Theme: Japanese-style RPG (JRPG), Turn-based strategy


Return to the depths of Hell, and guide a brand-new group of Delinquents through the Reformation Program. This time around, there’s a twist. One of the girls in your group of seven isn’t quite what she seems. As you journey through the Hell Spire, you’ll have to deal with the seeds of mistrust as you … Continue reading “Criminal Girls 2: Party Favors”

Year: 2016

Platforms: PS Vita

Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)

Theme: Japanese-style RPG (JRPG)


In Criminal Girls, the player takes the role of a prison warden in Hell who has been assigned to a group of seven girls. Although these seven have all been damned to Hell for their sins in life, they qualify for an early release program in which they must climb a tower to earn a second … Continue reading “Criminal Girls: Invite Only”

Year: 2010

Platforms: PS Vita, Windows

Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)

Theme: Japanese-style RPG (JRPG)


Shouji Masuda’s generations-spanning RPG “Over My Remain”, originally released in 1999. Make your own history! It’s the Heian period, dominated by demons and monsters. There is a family afflicted by two pesky curses. Name your character, and start the game; he will die several hours later. You must protect the name of your family as … Continue reading “Ore no Shikabane o Koete Yuke”

Year: 1999

Platforms: PS Vita, PSP, PlayStation, PlayStation 3

Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)

Theme: Japanese-style RPG (JRPG), Turn-based strategy


Valendia is a land that had undergone civil war, the end of which had birthed the parliament and several organizations to control the balance of power. Ashley Riot is a Riskbreaker, an elite agent for the Valendia Knights of Peace (VKP) who is investigating some strange occurrences. A cult of religious fanatics known as Müllenkamp … Continue reading “Vagrant Story”

Year: 2000

Platforms: PS Vita, PSP, PlayStation, PlayStation 3

Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)

Theme: Japanese-style RPG (JRPG), Puzzle elements, Real-time strategy


Long time ago, the Gods fought the Demons in a cosmic battle. To ensure victory, the Gods had to sacrifice part of their divine nature, and forge a weapon that had both good and bad in it – the “Evil Holy Sword” Necromancer. The demons were forced to dwell in the lower world, while the … Continue reading “Jaseiken Necromancer”

Year: 1988

Platforms: PS Vita, PSP, PlayStation 3, TurboGrafx-16, Wii, Wii U

Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)

Theme: Japanese-style RPG (JRPG), Turn-based strategy


Little Princess: Marl Ōkoku no Ningyō Hime 2, also known as Little Princess: The Puppet Princess of Marl Kingdom 2, is a sequel to Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure. Unlike its predecessor, Little Princess uses a more traditional RPG battle system, but it still contains many of the same themes of love and music. Little Princess … Continue reading “Rhapsody II: Ballad of the Little Princess”

Year: 1999

Platforms: PS Vita, PSP, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, Windows

Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)

Theme: Turn-based strategy


In this game the player controls Cornet, a young orphaned girl who can animate lifeless puppets by playing on her trumpet. One day, Cornet meets prince Ferdinand and falls in love with him. She joins a contest, the winner of which will have the privilege to marry the prince. But in the middle of the … Continue reading “Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure”

Year: 1998

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PS Vita, PSP, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, Windows

Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)

Theme: Turn-based strategy


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