Japanese role-playing game
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Statuses
Best Games in the Japanese role-playing game genre for PC
Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Turn-based, Fantasy, Medieval era, Construction, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 4 December 2025
Steam:
83/100
Metacritic:
82/100
The new installment of the Octopath Traveler series invites you to Orsterra — a world where destinies intersect and where legends of divine rings...
Anime / Manga, Role-playing game, Adventure, Tactics, Turn-based, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 15 April 2021
Steam:
91/100
Metacritic:
74/100
SaGa Frontier Remastered is an anime-style adventure tactical RPG with an isometric view and a fantasy world. You will play as one of eight heroes...
Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Free game, Fantasy, Old school, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 30 March 2021
Steam:
67/100
A classic Japanese RPG about a journey through time and space. The story begins with the disappearance of a girl before the eyes of the main...
Anime / Manga, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Isometric, Adventure, Tactics, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 12 May 2022
Steam:
50/100
Infinite Links is a tactical turn-based fantasy RPG with anime elements. Talismans are magical objects that have enormous power, and some of them can...
Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Exploration, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 16 November 2022
Players:
9.9/10
Steam:
80/100
Metacritic:
66/100
In the small province of Ennakamuy, on the border of the great Yamato Empire, there lived a young man with his mother and sister. One day, at the...
Action, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Anime / Manga, Dungeons, Exploration, Japanese role-playing game
Early Access: PC → 15 December 2022; Game released: PC → 26 July 2024
Players:
9.3/10
Steam:
82/100
Metacritic:
73/100
Side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. Erza is a legendary huntress who has become a spearhead in the Empire's military campaigns. With its...
Adventure, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Adult game, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game, Role-playing game
Game released: PC → 30 August 2024
Players:
7.7/10
Steam:
87/100
The main character explores locations and collects special creatures — Yarimons — who can fight for him. In total, the game has more than...
Role-playing game, In real time, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Isometric, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 24 September 2015
Players:
9.6/10
Steam:
77/100
Metacritic:
83/100
Final Fantasy V is an anime-style turn-based strategy RPG with an isometric view. Embark on an epic adventure as four heroes are united by fate...
Role-playing game, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 11 December 2014
Steam:
58/100
Metacritic:
79/100
Final Fantasy XIII-2 is a role-playing game and direct sequel to Final Fantasy XIII, with Lightning returning as the lead protagonist. The player...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game, Adventure
Game released: PC → 5 December 2002
Players:
9/10
Steam:
85/100
Metacritic:
77/100
This fantasy Japanese role-playing game with turn-based combat follows a mercenary searching for a weapon once wielded by a deity. Along the way, he...
Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game, Adventure, Role-playing game, Science fiction
Game released: PC → 3 May 2012
Steam:
66/100
Moto Island is overrun by terrible creatures and people are afraid to go outside. But several heroes have appeared who are ready to fight the...
Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Visual novel, Japanese role-playing game, Dungeons
Game released: PC → 8 March 2016
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...
Adventure, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Point & Click, Puzzle, Japanese role-playing game, Role-playing game
Game released: PC → 10 May 2017
Players:
10/10
Steam:
97/100
Metacritic:
84/100
Rakuen is a fantastic adventure in Japanese style. The game tells the story of a little boy who has been lying in the hospital for a long time and is...
Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 22 October 2018
Players:
9.1/10
Steam:
89/100
Metacritic:
81/100
Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance is a Japanese-style turn-based tactical RPG. The main character is the demon Killia, who opposes the emperor who...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Japanese role-playing game, Simulation
Game released: PC → 22 February 2023
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...
Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Exploration, Slasher, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 24 October 2017
Players:
10/10
Steam:
75/100
Metacritic:
66/100
Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon is a Japanese-style third-person action RPG. The setting is a fictional Western European city in the late...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 27 March 2018
Players:
1/10
Steam:
91/100
Metacritic:
69/100
Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings is a colorful Japanese-style RPG action adventure. The story of the game is...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 21 May 2019
Steam:
88/100
Metacritic:
78/100
Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland is a continuation of the Japanese role-playing series with turn-based battles in the fantasy universe of Arland...
Fantasy / Medieval, Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Strategy, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 23 October 2020
Steam:
50/100
Clouds of Rain is a fantasy RPG adventure with a turn-based combat system. The game takes place in forgotten kingdoms that float on small islands in...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 24 February 2022
Players:
10/10
Steam:
91/100
Metacritic:
82/100
Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream — a continuation of the colorful Japanese-style role-playing game, in which you will play as...
Action, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game, Role-playing game, Strategy
Game released: PC → 3 October 2023
Steam:
74/100
Metacritic:
84/100
Fuji and his friends travel through the demonic world of Hinomoto, where bushido is a thing of the past, and the Code of Destruction has come in its...
Role-playing game, Adventure, Online, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Slasher, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 11 December 2024
Steam:
61/100
Metacritic:
66/100
An adventure role-playing game with turn-based combat, based on the Japanese anime Fairy Tail. The story is based on the final story arc of the...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Fantasy, Old school, Japanese role-playing game, Exploration
Game in development: PC → 14 January 2027
The new edition of Terranigma retains the foundation of the classic RPG, bringing its adventure of Earth's rebirth to modern players. At the center...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 24 June 2004
Players:
10/10
Steam:
93/100
Metacritic:
79/100
This turn-based Japanese role-playing game is set in the fantasy kingdom of Liberl, where bracers help the public and maintain order. When an airship...
Hack and slash, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Role-playing game, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 20 August 2018
Players:
9.1/10
Steam:
78/100
Metacritic:
67/100
Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment — You will take on the role of Kirito, the hero of the popular anime series Sword Art Online, and explore a...
Online, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Tactics, Japanese role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Role-playing game
Game released: PC → 16 February 2021
Steam:
79/100
Bravery Network Online is a side-scrolling multiplayer tactics game with turn-based combat. All characters and environments are hand-drawn, and...
Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Japanese role-playing game
Game in development: PC → 2026
Anticipation Rating:
7.5/10
SacriFire is a side-scrolling fantasy adventure RPG game. Dynamic Combat — The system combines real-time combat with a turn-based style to let...
Japanese role-playing game, Fighting, Combat robots, Anime / Manga, Online, Slasher, Role-playing game
Game released: PC → 25 April 2024
Steam:
78/100
Metacritic:
77/100
The aliens almost completely destroyed humanity, and the survivors were imprisoned in an underground shelter, where their memories of this event were...
Anime / Manga, Science fiction, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Role-playing game, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 7 June 2024
Players:
9.1/10
Steam:
50/100
A post-apocalyptic game in which the main character leads her squad to free her little sister and restore order to the world. You can choose girls...
