Japanese role-playing game 2023 for PC — top best games in the Japanese role-playing game genre

Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis - a game in the Japanese role-playing game genre

Role-playing game, Action, Free game, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PC → 7 December 2023; The project is closed: PC → 6 October 2026

Metacritic: 66/100

The game's story reveals previously unknown details from Sephiroth's past — the main antagonist of Final Fantasy VII Remake. Players can expect both classic and...

Pray Game

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Adult game, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PC → 23 September 2023

Players: 7.7/10

As Elsie finishes her studies, she is attacked by an unknown assailant. After losing consciousness, she wakes up and discovers that she has somehow ended up on...

Octopath Traveler 2

Adventure, Turn-based, Tactics, Open world, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PC → 24 February 2023

Metacritic: 85/100

Turn-based Japanese role-playing game in an open world. The story takes place in Solistia, a world where the eastern and western continents are separated by sea. It...

Like a Dragon: Ishin!

Action, Adventure, Japanese role-playing game, Beat them all, Open world

Game released: PC → 21 February 2023

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Adventure role-playing action game in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series. The events of the game unfold in Kyoto in the 1860s. The country is rife with inequality...

Sword Art Online Last Recollection

Action, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Japanese role-playing game, Science fiction, Futurism (Future), Online, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 6 October 2023

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 65/100

The new story, based on the plot of the anime Sword Art Online War of Underworld, tells about new difficult trials that await Kirito and his new friends. Players...

Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless

Action, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PC → 3 October 2023

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 place. Hinomoto...

Long Gone Days

Japanese role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Role-playing game, Indie, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 10 October 2023; Early Access: PC → 28 March 2018

Players: 9.7/10

The main character is a young sniper named Rourke. He was raised underground as a soldier his entire adult life. One day, Rourke receives his first assignment, in...

Dragon Quest Treasures

Role-playing game, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 14 July 2023

Metacritic: 77/100

An adventure role-playing game about Eric and his sister Mia, who dream of finding a great treasure. The heroes set off on a dangerous journey across mysterious...

Volcano Princess

Role-playing game, Simulation, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PC → 21 April 2023

Players: 8.4/10

The main character's wife dies and now he is forced to raise his daughter alone. She is a cheerful and curious child who strives to learn everything about this...

Isekai Rondo

Adventure, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Tactics, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PC → 15 September 2023

The game takes place in modern Japan, where a young man named Sho works hard at a large company. After an accident, the hero finds himself in a fantasy parallel...

The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak 2

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Japanese role-playing game, Fantasy, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 25 January 2023

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 77/100

The sequel continues the story of the world of Calvard, where peaceful life is again under threat. After the defeat of the Almaty mafia organization, people return...

WitchSpring R

Adventure, Japanese role-playing game, Turn-based, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 25 September 2023

Players: 7.7/10

The main character is sweet Peaberry, a gray-haired witch with bunny ears who grew up in a forest full of monsters. To relive her childhood memories, she dreams of...

Live A Live

Japanese role-playing game, Role-playing game, Medieval era, Adventure, Remake

Game released: PC → 27 April 2023

Metacritic: 83/100

Remake of Live a Live (1994) . The game features seven independent story campaigns, each dedicated to one of the seven heroes living in different time periods...

Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia

Adventure, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game, Role-playing game, Fantasy, Old school

Game released: PC → 22 September 2023

High school student Sumireko Usami finds herself in a fantasy palace of spirits in her dream. The mistress of the palace, Satori, told her that now mindless clones...

The Smile Alchemist

Adventure, Indie, Casual game, Crafting, Japanese role-playing game, Farm Simulator

Game released: PC → 3 March 2023

Players: 5.5/10

The main character named Nike promised his friend that he would apprentice to the famous alchemist in order to gain knowledge and become the best in this field. In...

Meg's Monster

Adventure, Japanese role-playing game, Role-playing game, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 March 2023

Metacritic: 79/100

The game takes place in the Underworld — a land of monsters and mutants who eat people for breakfast. But a huge ogre named Roy doesn't want to eat people...

Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key

Japanese role-playing game, Casual game, Turn-based, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 24 March 2023

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Continuation of the Atelier Ryza series of Japanese role-playing games. Near the hometown of the main character Riza, the Karka Islands appear in an unknown way...

Kagura Survivors: Endless Night

Action, Top-down view, Indie, Free game, Japanese role-playing game

Early Access: PC → 1 April 2023; Game in development: PC → 2026

Free role-playing action game similar to Vampire Survivors. Something is wrong in the Kaguraverse. An anomaly is creating rifts in space-time, causing parallel...

Cross Tails

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Turn-based, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PC → 20 July 2023

For more than ten years, the dog kingdom of Ranverfurt and the cat republic of Hidik have been at war. This enmity is deeply rooted in the memory of their peoples...

Loop8: Summer of Gods

Japanese role-playing game, Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Fantasy, Visual novel

Game released: PC → 6 June 2023

Metacritic: 50/100

The game takes place in the quaint Japanese city of Ashihara in August 1983. A teenager named Nini explores the settlement, interacting with its inhabitants and...

Mr. Saitou

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Japanese role-playing game, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 24 March 2023

The game is about a simple employee who is trying to find the meaning of life. The hero has no one to communicate with, and all his free time is occupied with work...

Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist of Salburg

Japanese role-playing game, Role-playing game, Turn-based, Anime / Manga, Fantasy, Crafting

Game released: PC → 13 July 2023

Metacritic: 75/100

The events of the game take place in the Royal Academy of Magic. Young Marie cannot cope with alchemy, so the professor arranges for her to join a workshop that...

Vesper Charm

Japanese role-playing game, Fantasy, Top-down view, Adventure

Game released: PC → 2 August 2023

A pixel game about a group of mercenaries hired to search for a mysterious treasure in a goblin dungeon. The characters differ in their skills. Instead of a...

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Best Games in the Japanese role-playing game genre of 2023 for PC