Role-playing game
Years
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Statuses
Best Games in the Role-playing game genre for Nintendo DS
Role-playing game, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 6 February 2009
Players:
9.7/10
Steam:
87/100
Metacritic:
92/100
This role-playing game follows Crono, a young hero who sets out to save the planet’s future after his companion Marle vanishes through a rift in space and time. The...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 4 May 2007
Players:
8/10
Steam:
79/100
Final Fantasy III is a fantasy anime-style role-playing game with a third-person perspective. The four main characters were completely redesigned and new scenarios...
Role-playing game, In real time, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics, Strategy, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 5 September 2008
Players:
7.1/10
Steam:
83/100
Metacritic:
85/100
Final Fantasy IV is a tactical turn-based strategy role-playing game with anime and fantasy RPG elements. Expect fully voiced dramatic cutscenes, deep, emotionally...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 17 March 2009
Metacritic:
76/100
Set in a fantasy universe of parallel worlds, this turn-based role-playing game follows the Stars of Destiny in their struggle against the powerful One King. The...
Role-playing game, Action, In real time, Third-person view, Top-down view, Puzzle, Mario Game, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 1 November 2009
Players:
5.5/10
Metacritic:
90/100
This role-playing game with action elements follows two parallel adventures: Bowser tries to stop Fawful from taking over his castle, while Mario and Luigi search...
Role-playing game, In real time, First-person view, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Dungeons
Game released: Nintendo DS → 8 September 2008
Metacritic:
65/100
Role-playing game, Strategy, Top-down view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Casual game, Match-3 (Three in a row)
Game released: Nintendo DS → 4 May 2009
Steam:
60/100
Metacritic:
64/100
A turn-based strategy game with puzzle elements, set in the fantasy world of Etheria, where the player builds an army to save the realm from destruction. Troops led...
Role-playing game, Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Comics, Cooperative (co-op), Adventure
Game released: Nintendo DS → 15 September 2009
Players:
8.3/10
Steam:
53/100
Metacritic:
66/100
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 is a continuation of the Marvel Ultimate Alliance series about Marvel superheroes. The number of heroes has increased — there are...
Role-playing game, Strategy, Top-down view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 29 February 2008
Players:
7/10
Steam:
86/100
Metacritic:
81/100
This fantasy role-playing game combines turn-based battles with match-three puzzles in the Warlords universe, where a hero sets out to save Etheria from Lord Bane...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 29 September 2009
Metacritic:
68/100
This turn-based role-playing game follows Dorothy and her dog Toto in the fantasy land of Oz after a tornado carries them away from their farm in Kansas. To find a...
Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Role-playing game, Science fiction, Metroidvania
Game released: Nintendo DS → 2 November 2006
Players:
10/10
Steam:
92/100
Metacritic:
70/100
This isometric science-fiction action game follows bounty hunter Jenosa Arma, sent to a remote planet to investigate a disaster at a research laboratory and recover...
Role-playing game, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game, Dungeons, Adventure
Game released: Nintendo DS → 6 June 2008
Steam:
88/100
Metacritic:
75/100
A first-person, turn-based role-playing game set in a fantasy world, where a vast labyrinth is discovered beneath the forest near the quiet town of Etria. Players...
Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Casual game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 2 February 2010
Players:
9/10
Steam:
50/100
Metacritic:
60/100
This fantasy puzzle RPG follows a quest for revenge against the Ashurin Empire for the atrocities it inflicted on the protagonist’s tribesmen. The hero sets out to...
Role-playing game, Adventure, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 9 December 2010
Players:
7.7/10
Metacritic:
85/100
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is an atmospheric role-playing adventure with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. Created according to the canons of the...
