Japanese role-playing game
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Statuses
Best Games in the Japanese role-playing game genre for PC
Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Fantasy, Medieval era, Japanese role-playing game
Early Access: PC → 27 July 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027
Steam:
77/100
A tactical role-playing game set in a dark fantasy world with open-world exploration and turn-based battles. You will need to assemble your own...
Role-playing game, First-person view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game, Dungeons
Game released: PC → 19 July 2018
Steam:
82/100
Metacritic:
76/100
Mary Skelter: Nightmares is an amazing role-playing game with turn-based combat and a Japanese-style first-person perspective. Events take place in a...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 9 April 2021
Steam:
91/100
Metacritic:
81/100
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 4 is the final part of the great role-playing saga The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold...
Role-playing game, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 5 November 2021
Steam:
83/100
Ghost Sync is an anime role-playing game with an isometric fantasy style view. In a world full of evil beasts called Savarians, a girl sets out on a...
Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Third-person view, Japanese role-playing game, Cyberpunk
Game released: PC → 26 August 2022
Players:
10/10
Steam:
74/100
Metacritic:
74/100
Soul Hackers 2 is a Japanese-style third-person adventure RPG that is a spin-off of the Shin Megami Tensei...
Role-playing game, Turn-based, Tactics, Comedy, Collectible card game (CCG), Adventure, Japanese role-playing game
Game in development: PC → 2026
The game world is based on Slavic mythology. The gods divided the lands under their influence and gathered peoples around them. The game takes place...
Role-playing game, Strategy, Top-down view, Turn-based, Tactics, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 16 September 2025
Steam:
100/100
A pixelated game set in a bleak, sunless world. With the darkness came shadows—fragments of those who lived before. Humanity huddles in bustling...
Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Simulation, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 1996
Players:
5.5/10
Steam:
70/100
Farland Saga is an isometric role-playing game with a mixture of strategy, anime/manga and fantasy games from the masters at Technical Group...
Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 30 August 2017
Steam:
92/100
Metacritic:
80/100
This fantasy action RPG follows Adol Christin on an adventure in Altago, a port city that has recently reopened to foreigners after a war with the...
Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Anime / Manga, Japanese role-playing game, Roguelike, Casual game
Game released: PC → 4 June 2018
Steam:
65/100
Metacritic:
65/100
This action role-playing game follows Pupuru, a magic academy student tasked with retrieving the Madokyuu from Mado Tower as a condition of...
Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Tactics, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 17 April 2014
Steam:
72/100
A turn-based tactical role-playing game set in Agarest, a fantasy world ravaged by war between the gods of light and darkness. Sieghart, a young...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Japanese role-playing game, Adventure, Strategy
Game released: PC → 27 September 2016
Steam:
76/100
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...
Anime / Manga, Strategy, Turn-based, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Visual novel, Action, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 23 August 2022
Steam:
63/100
Metacritic:
54/100
Fallen Legion Revenants is a turn-based strategy role-playing game with turn-based combat and visual novel elements in a fantasy setting. In a world...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Turn-based, Comics, Japanese role-playing game, Detective, Comedy
Game released: PC → 25 June 2012
Steam:
85/100
This turn-based role-playing game combines detective fiction with humor: a detective agency is called into action by a mysterious caller. The threats...
Role-playing game, In real time, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 9 November 2023
Steam:
66/100
This fantasy role-playing game follows Vedley, who lost his parents and learns from Achieitz about the Letoiles, beings capable of granting wishes...
Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 20 June 2019
Players:
10/10
Steam:
78/100
Metacritic:
61/100
Super Neptunia RPG is an adventure role-playing game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. The game takes place in the yperdimension Neptunia...
Free game, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PC → 24 July 2021
Steam:
82/100
Eternal Dreamers is a free-to-play role-playing game with turn-based combat and a top-down view in a fantasy setting. The game is made in anime...
Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game, Comedy
Game released: PC → 13 July 2011
Players:
7.4/10
Steam:
92/100
This turn-based parody RPG takes place in a fantasy world where Cthulhu must become a true hero after a mysterious sorcerer seals his powers. Lifting...
