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A reimaging of Snatcher in the form of a "super deformed" RPG, exclusively released on the MSX2 platform in 1990.
Ys Book I & II follows the adventure of Adol Christin, a traveler who embarks on a quest to locate the fabled lost floating continent called Ys. The game is a enhanced compilation of the first two Ys titles and was one of the first games to demonstrate the potential of the TurboGrafx-16's CD-ROM add-on.
Get to the bottom of the mystery shrouding both a recent influx of body-snatching robotic terrorists and your own past as futuristic gumshoe Gillian Seed in this thrilling cinematic adventure. A Hideo Kojima adventure game originally released for the NEC PC-88 in 1988.
The direct sequel to Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished developed by Falcom and released on a number of platforms.
Hoshi wo Miru Hito is a sci-fi themed Japanese RPG released for the NES in 1987, noteworthy for its difficulty and poor construction. It was only released in Japan.
One of the first action RPGs, The Magic of Scheherazade is a Culture Brain title for the NES (1989) and Famicom (1987, as Arabian Dream Scheherazade).
The first game in the Ys series. The player controls Adol Christin who is on a quest to retrieve the six books of Ys which he will use to destroy the evil forces.
Based on the novels Nine Princes in Amber and The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny.
Alpha (アルファ) is a visual novel adventure game, developed and published by Squaresoft in 1986, for the PC-8801 & PC-9801 and FM-7 computers. It was known for its real-time animated cutscenes, epic cyberpunk space opera narrative, and scantily-clad heroine.
A first-person adventure game with RPG elements, released by Microcabin in 1986. The game featured environments rendered in 3D polygon graphics, for possibly the first time in a home video game, along with early survival horror elements. However, the game is better remembered for its cyberpunk narrative, which was adapted into a sci-fi novel shortly afterwards.
Déjà Vu is a point-and-click adventure game that draws inspiration from "noir" detective novels that were popular in the 1940s.
You awake in a hut on a deserted island, with a headache and no memory.
An early Japanese RPG released by Hot-B in 1984 that departed from the fantasy themes of most other early RPGs in favour of what is possibly gaming's first sci-fi cyberpunk plot. Set in a post-apocalyptic city, the game revolves around an amnesiac protagonist with psychic powers.
Upcoming game from developer Undrawn Reality, which takes puzzle solving into the first-person view.
This survival horror title was cancelled two months after it was unveiled at E3 2004.
A US version of Saga of Hero, it's a 2.5D MMORPG game.
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