Best Games in the Japanese role-playing game genre of 2016 (Game released)
Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Role-playing game, Japanese role-playing game, Platformer
Game released: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, PC → 14 October 2016
Players:
8.7/10
Steam:
90/100
Metacritic:
82/100
Dragon Quest Builders — arcade sandbox with a third-person view in an open world in the Dragon Quest universe. The plot of the game will tell the sweet story...
Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Collection, Anime / Manga, Japanese role-playing game, Fantasy
Game released: PlayStation 3, PS Vita, PlayStation 4, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch 2 → 26 December 2013
Players:
9.1/10
Steam:
88/100
Metacritic:
85/100
The edition combines updated versions of the iconic Final Fantasy X and its sequel Final Fantasy X-2. The story begins with Tidus's journey, who finds himself in...
Role-playing game, In real time, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PC, Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One → 22 February 2000
Players:
9.6/10
Steam:
94/100
Metacritic:
85/100
This fantasy role-playing game follows Zidane and the Tantalus Theater Troupe, who kidnap Princess Garnet, heir to Alexandria. Garnet wants to escape the castle...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Xbox 360 → 14 December 2016
Metacritic:
79/100
Blue Dragon is an epic action role-playing game with turn-based combat and third-person view in a fantasy setting. The events of the game will tell about a young...
Role-playing game, Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Open world, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC → 13 November 2008
Players:
5.5/10
Steam:
73/100
Metacritic:
57/100
This action RPG follows a wandering samurai in Japan during the turbulent Sengoku era. The hero explores villages, battlefields, bandit fortresses and castles...
Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Japanese role-playing game, Turn-based
Game released: PS Vita, PlayStation 4, PC, Nintendo Switch → 5 February 2016
Players:
9.7/10
Steam:
89/100
Metacritic:
76/100
A futuristic anime-style role-playing game in which a cyber detective investigates digital mysteries across the boundary between the real and digital worlds...
Role-playing game, Strategy, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PlayStation 2, Wii, PC, PSP → 4 February 2005
Steam:
85/100
Metacritic:
74/100
This strategy role-playing game follows Marona, an orphan who can see and communicate with phantoms. She lives on Phantom Isle with Ash, a phantom who serves as her...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PlayStation 3, PS Vita, PlayStation 4, PC → 19 November 2015
Players:
10/10
Steam:
86/100
Metacritic:
75/100
A fantasy role-playing game about Sophie, a budding alchemist from Kirchen Bell, who meets Plachta, a mysterious book. Their encounter sets Sophie on a journey tied...
Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game, Adventure, Online, Exploration, Third-person view
Game released: Nintendo 3DS, iOS, Android, PC, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 8 September 2017
Players:
8/10
Steam:
90/100
Metacritic:
77/100
The main character and his friends, Cheval and Lilia, are looking for a monster egg. They find a nest with one of them, and Rathalos hatches from it, who almost...
Role-playing game, Online, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Free game, Side view, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Android, iOS → 22 October 2015
Players:
7.5/10
Metacritic:
73/100
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius is a free-to-play multiplayer role-playing game with turn-based combat for mobile platforms in the Final Fantasy universe. The world is...
Game released: PS Vita, PlayStation 4, PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 → 15 September 2017
Players:
8.6/10
Steam:
92/100
Metacritic:
83/100
Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana is a sequel to the Japanese role-playing game with a third-person view. The main character is again the red-haired adventurer Adol, who...
Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PS Vita, Nintendo 3DS, PC → 14 May 2014
Steam:
78/100
Metacritic:
62/100
This Japanese role-playing game with dungeon combat is set in Aterra, a world that has endured decades of monster attacks. Only disciples gifted with divine powers...
Game released: PlayStation 4, PS Vita, PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 28 October 2016
Players:
10/10
Steam:
73/100
Metacritic:
77/100
World of Final Fantasy is a Japanese-style third-person role-playing game. You will become the guides of Rainn and Lann, twins who find themselves in the world of...
Role-playing game, First-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Dungeons, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Xbox 360, PC, PS Vita, Xbox One → 5 June 2014
Players:
5.5/10
Steam:
65/100
Metacritic:
71/100
Stranger of Sword City is a Japanese role-playing game with turn-based combat in a dark fantasy setting. The action takes place in a world in which magic and...
Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Visual novel, Japanese role-playing game, Dungeons
Game released: PS Vita, PC → 28 May 2014
Steam:
40/100
Metacritic:
59/100
This fantasy dungeon-crawling RPG follows Kei, a high school student whose life changes after he forms a contract with a MIND, a being and weapon with deadly...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PlayStation 3, PS Vita, PC, PlayStation 4 → 29 January 2016
Steam:
94/100
Metacritic:
81/100
Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel is a fantasy role-playing game with turn-based combat and a Japanese-style third-person perspective. The events of the game...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 27 September 2016
Metacritic:
61/100
An adventure RPG set in a fantasy world, blending an Eastern role-playing genre with a Nordic take. Players grow potatoes, mushrooms and plants, then use their...
Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game, Anime / Manga
Game released: PlayStation 2, PC → 28 May 2004
Players:
10/10
Steam:
88/100
This tactical role-playing game takes place in the Netherworld, where demon prince Laharl awakens to find his realm in turmoil. Joined by his vassal Etna and the...
Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Exploration, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Mac, Linux → 2 June 2016
Steam:
94/100
Ara Fell is an indie role-playing adventure in a fantasy setting with pixel graphics. A large open world awaits you to explore with many mysteries and mystical...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Japanese role-playing game, Simulation
Game released: PS Vita, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PC → 17 March 2016
Players:
10/10
Steam:
81/100
Metacritic:
65/100
Digimon World: Next Order is a Japanese-style role-playing game with a third-person perspective. The plot of the game is about high school students who, together...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy, Exploration, Slasher, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PlayStation 3, PS Vita, PlayStation 4, PC → 1 October 2015
Players:
10/10
Steam:
69/100
Metacritic:
67/100
Nights of Azure is a third-person action role-playing game in Japanese style. The game is developed by the creator of Fatal Frame, in which players will play as two...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 2 December 2016
Metacritic:
84/100
Shin Megami Tensei 4: Apocalypse is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game with a third-person view. The game takes place in a destroyed Tokyo and partially overlaps...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PlayStation 3, PS Vita → 27 June 2013
Metacritic:
77/100
This Japanese role-playing game is set in a fantasy world and lets players choose whose story to follow: the alchemist Escha’s or Logy’s. Escha’s tale focuses on...
Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game, Visual novel
Game released: PlayStation 3, PC → 25 May 2014
Steam:
73/100
Metacritic:
57/100
This tactical role-playing game is set across twelve Zodiac worlds threatened by an ancient force awakening from a long sleep. Chou-Chou and her companions join...
Anime / Manga, Japanese role-playing game, Third-person view, Action, Adventure, Free game, Role-playing game
Game released: iOS, Android, PC → 20 October 2016
Steam:
74/100
The player leads a group of brave characters, each of whom has strengths and weaknesses. You can use equipment to enhance the desired parameters that suit your play...
Role-playing game, Action, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PS Vita, PlayStation 4 → 15 December 2016
Metacritic:
76/100
This turn-based role-playing game lets players choose one of four heroes, each with a distinct storyline. The choice determines which of the four stories the player...