Retro Shin Megami Tensei Game Collection
11 total gamesShin Megami Tensei is a series of role-playing games where players navigate modern or post-apocalyptic worlds, recruiting, fusing, and battling demons to shape the fate of humanity through often morally ambiguous choices.
About the Shin Megami Tensei Series
Shin Megami Tensei is a series of Japanese role-playing games developed and published by Atlus, which began its journey in the early 1990s on platforms like the Super Famicom and has since appeared on numerous consoles and handhelds.
In Shin Megami Tensei, players typically step into the shoes of an ordinary person thrust into extraordinary circumstances, often involving a demonic invasion or a post-apocalyptic wasteland. A core part of the gameplay involves exploring dangerous environments, from derelict cityscapes to otherworldly dimensions. When encountering demons, instead of just attacking, you can often try to converse with them. This involves choosing dialogue options, offering items, or sometimes just paying them to join your cause. Successfully recruiting demons is crucial, as they become your party members for combat.
The progression in Shin Megami Tensei is heavily reliant on its unique demon fusion system. At special terminals, you can combine two or more of your recruited demons to create a new, more powerful demon, inheriting skills from its predecessors. This process requires careful planning to build a well-rounded party capable of facing increasingly difficult foes and bosses. The narrative often presents players with complex moral choices, forcing them to align with different factions or ideologies, leading to branching storylines and multiple endings. These elements define the Shin Megami Tensei experience.
The series is known for its challenging combat, which often employs a press-turn system where exploiting enemy weaknesses grants extra turns, while taking hits or failing to exploit weaknesses can lead to severe repercussions. Many games in the Shin Megami Tensei series explore themes of law, chaos, and neutrality, reflecting philosophical and religious ideas through their narratives and character designs.
All Shin Megami Tensei Retro Games
11 games available
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
You must survive a week in Tokyo after a cataclysm by commanding a party of demon-possessed individuals in turn-based strategic battles, managing their skills and relationships to uncover the truth and influence the city's fate.
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
In Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2, you navigate a week-long apocalypse in Tokyo, using a mysterious phone app to summon demons and engage in turn-based tactical battles to uncover the truth and save humanity.
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
You lead a UN-backed strike team investigating a vast, alien anomaly called the Schwarzwelt that is appearing in Antarctica, exploring its dangerous depths through first-person dungeons and recruiting demons to battle hostile forces and uncover its secrets.
Shin Megami Tensei
In Shin Megami Tensei, you navigate a demon-infested Tokyo by recruiting and conversing with demons to form a party, exploring dangerous labyrinths and engaging in turn-based combat to uncover a grand conspiracy.
Shin Megami Tensei II
You play as a hacker in a futuristic, oppressive Tokyo, recruiting demons and navigating a plot involving a new messiah and the ruling religious order through turn-based combat and negotiation.
Shin Megami Tensei if...
In Shin Megami Tensei if..., you navigate a school transformed into a demon-infested labyrinth, recruiting and fusing demons to survive and find a way back to reality.
Shin Megami Tensei
In Shin Megami Tensei, you navigate a post-apocalyptic Tokyo, recruiting demons through negotiation or fusion to form a party that battles hostile entities and other demons in turn-based combat to uncover the truth behind the world's collapse.
Shin Megami Tensei II
In Shin Megami Tensei II, you navigate a post-apocalyptic world as a chosen individual, recruiting demons through negotiation and combat, and making moral choices that determine humanity's future.
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children - Book of Light
In Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children - Book of Light, you command a team of demons you've recruited and fused to battle through a world threatened by angelic and demonic forces, uncovering ancient secrets to protect humanity.
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children - Book of Dark
You explore a world where demons manifest, recruiting them through negotiation or by joining your cause, and then command your demon companions in turn-based combat to uncover a conspiracy that threatens both worlds.
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children: Black Book/Red Book
You will guide young protagonists who can summon and command demons, exploring a world filled with supernatural threats, engaging in turn-based battles and dialogue to uncover secrets and influence the fate of both worlds.