Spin-Off

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A game that takes gameplay mechanics, characters, or story elements from an existing series in a separate and different direction, sometimes changing genres along the way.

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Overview

A spin-off is different from a sequel or a spiritual successor, in that a spin-off has concrete ties to its parent series, but is not treated as one of the main releases in it. Successful spin-offs are often sequelized and branch into their own sub-series, as with Paper Mario (Franchise) and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Franchise). Sometimes a spin-off series even overshadows the original series to become the most prominent face of the franchise, as Persona (Franchise) did after being spun off from Shin Megami Tensei (Franchise) (outside Japan, at least).

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• .hack//Versus (Game)
• 428: Shibuya Scramble (Game)
• A-Ressha de Ikou Z: Mezase! Tairiku Oudan (Game)
• Adventures of Mana (Game)
• Age of Empires: Castle Siege (Game)
• Agents of Mayhem (Game)
• Air Zonk (Game)
• Akane Maniax ~Nagareboshi Densetsu Gouda~ (Game)
• Alundra (Game)
• Alundra 2 (Game)
• Among Us Story: On Guard (Game)
• An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire (Game)
• Angry Birds Blast! (Game)
• Angry Birds Fight! (Game)
• Angry Birds Go! (Game)
• Angry Birds Stella (Game)
• Angry Birds: POP! (Game)
• Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (Game)
• Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival (Game)
• Ape Escape Academy (Game)
• Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed (Game)
• Aperture Desk Job (Game)
• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (Game)
• Ar Nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star (Game)
• Ashzel & the Power Dagger (Game)
• Asphalt Overdrive (Game)
• Assassin's Creed Chronicles (Game)
• Assassin's Creed II: Discovery (Game)
• Assassin's Creed III: Liberation (Game)
• Assassin's Creed Identity (Game)
• Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles (Game)
• Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines (Game)
• Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry (Game)
• Asteroids: Outpost (Game)
• Atari Combat: Tank Fury (Game)
• Athena: Awakening from the Ordinary Life (Game)
• Babysitting Mama (Game)
• Bad Piggies (Game)
• Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (Game)
• Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II (Game)
• Band Hero (Game)
• Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate (Game)
• Batman: Arkham VR (Game)
• Battalion Wars (Game)
• Battalion Wars 2 (Game)
• Batter Up (Game)
• Battle Cats Rangers (Game)
• Battlefield Hardline (Game)
• Battlefield Online (Game)
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Game)
• Bentley’s Hackpack (Game)
• Berry Tree (Game)
• Bird & Beans (Game)
• Blade Arcus Rebellion from Shining (Game)
• Blade Arcus from Shining: Battle Arena (Game)
• BlazBlue: Clone Phantasma (Game)
• BlazBlue: Revolution Reburning (Game)
• Blue Dragon Plus (Game)
• Bombergirl (Game)
• Bomberman Fantasy Race (Game)
• Borderlands Legends (Game)
• Burnout CRASH! (Game)
• Call of Duty Online (Game)
• Camping Mama: Outdoor Adventures (Game)
• Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 (Game)
• Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 Pro (Game)
• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Game)
• Castlevania Judgment (Game)
• Chaos;Head Love Chu Chu! (Game)
• Chicago Syndicate (Game)
• Chocobo Racing (Game)
• Chocobo to Mahou no Ehon: Majo to Shoujo to Go-nin no Yuusha (Game)
• Chronicle: RuneScape Legends (Game)
• City Shrouded in Shadow (Game)
• Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force (Game)
• Combat Choro Q (Game)
• Combat Choro Q: Advance Daisakusen (Game)
• Command & Conquer: Renegade (Game)
• Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop (Game)
• Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies (Game)
• Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (Game)
• Counter-Strike: Source (Game)
• Crash 'N the Boys: Street Challenge (Game)
• Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage (Game)
• Crash Bash (Game)
• Crash Boom, Bang! (Game)
• Crash Nitro Kart (Game)
• Crash Team Racing (Game)
• Crash Team Rumble (Game)
• Crazy Taxi Gazillionaire (Game)
• Crazy Taxi: City Rush (Game)
• Creatures of Aether (Game)
• Crime City (Game)
• Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (Game)
• Crystal Defenders (Game)
• DJ Hero (Game)
• DOA BlackJack (Game)
• Damascus Gear: Operation Tokyo (Game)
• Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (Game)
• Dark Messiah of Might & Magic (Game)

Concept details

Name

Spin-Off

Aliases

Spinoff

Games

• .hack//Versus (Game)
• 428: Shibuya Scramble (Game)
• A-Ressha de Ikou Z: Mezase! Tairiku Oudan (Game)
• Adventures of Mana (Game)
• Age of Empires: Castle Siege (Game)
• Agents of Mayhem (Game)
• Air Zonk (Game)
• Akane Maniax ~Nagareboshi Densetsu Gouda~ (Game)
• Alundra (Game)
• Alundra 2 (Game)
• Among Us Story: On Guard (Game)
• An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire (Game)
• Angry Birds Blast! (Game)
• Angry Birds Fight! (Game)
• Angry Birds Go! (Game)
• Angry Birds Stella (Game)
• Angry Birds: POP! (Game)
• Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (Game)
• Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival (Game)
• Ape Escape Academy (Game)
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Franchises

• Has franchises: Mortal Kombat (Franchise), Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise), Need for Speed (Franchise), Super Smash Bros. (Franchise), The Legend of Zelda (Franchise), Capcom Versus (Franchise), Marvel vs. Capcom (Franchise), SNK vs. Capcom (Franchise), Street Fighter (Franchise), Street Fighter Alpha (Franchise), Street Fighter EX (Franchise), Tekken (Franchise), X-Men (Franchise), Soul (Franchise), WarioWare (Franchise), Half-Life (Franchise), Kirby (Franchise), Mario (Franchise), Mario & Luigi (Franchise), Mario Baseball (Franchise), Mario Golf (Franchise), Mario Kart (Franchise), Mario Party (Franchise), Mario RPG (Franchise), Mario Strikers (Franchise), Mario Tennis (Franchise), New Play Control (Franchise), New Super Mario Bros. (Franchise), Puzzle League (Franchise), Super Mario (Franchise), Super Mario Land (Franchise), Yoshi (Franchise), Mega Man (Franchise), Castlevania (Franchise), Megami Tensei (Franchise), Persona (Franchise), Shenmue (Franchise), Halo (Franchise), Donkey Kong (Franchise), Metal Gear (Franchise), Metal Gear Ac!d (Franchise), Metal Gear Solid (Franchise), Yu-Gi-Oh! (Franchise), Activision Hero (Franchise), Guitar Hero (Franchise), Dead or Alive (Franchise), Advance Wars (Franchise), Metroid (Franchise), Metroid Prime (Franchise), Tetris (Franchise), Touch! Generations (Franchise), Musou (Franchise), Ratchet & Clank (Franchise), Resistance (Franchise), Sly Cooper (Franchise), Dead Rising (Franchise), Duke Nukem (Franchise), Pac-Man (Franchise), Mystery Dungeon (Franchise), Pokémon (Franchise), Pokémon Mystery Dungeon (Franchise), Pokémon Stadium (Franchise), Tekken Tag Tournament (Franchise), Tales (Franchise), Uncharted (Franchise), Donkey Kong Country (Franchise), Luigi's Mansion (Franchise), Mario Bros. (Franchise), Paper Mario (Franchise), Super Mario Bros. (Franchise), Super Mario Galaxy (Franchise), Super Mario World (Franchise), Wii (Franchise), Wii Fit (Franchise), Lost Planet (Franchise), Final Fantasy (Franchise), Mega Man Classic (Franchise), The Elder Scrolls (Franchise), Mega Man X (Franchise), Puyo Puyo (Franchise), Alan Wake (Franchise), Warcraft (Franchise), DiRT (Franchise), Monopoly (Franchise), Viewtiful Joe (Franchise), Compilation of Final Fantasy VII (Franchise), Dissidia: Final Fantasy (Franchise), Final Fantasy Tactics (Franchise), Ivalice Alliance (Franchise), Bonk (Franchise), Dragon Quest (Franchise), Onimusha (Franchise), Resident Evil (Franchise), Dead or Alive Xtreme (Franchise), Double Dragon (Franchise), Fabula Nova Crystallis (Franchise), Fallout (Franchise), Ace Attorney (Franchise), Star Ocean (Franchise), Snatcher (Franchise), Final Fantasy X (Franchise), Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Franchise), Disgaea (Franchise), Prinny (Franchise), Mass Effect (Franchise), Worms (Franchise), Killzone (Franchise), Nobunaga's Ambition (Franchise), The Neverhood (Franchise), Silent Hill (Franchise), LittleBigPlanet (Franchise), Like a Dragon (Franchise), Record of Lodoss War (Franchise), Mana (Franchise), DJ Hero (Franchise), Dragon Quest Monsters (Franchise), Slime (Franchise), Eternal Champions (Franchise), Ys (Franchise), Kunio-Kun (Franchise), Fable (Franchise), Doom (Franchise), Far Cry (Franchise), Grandia (Franchise), Viva Piñata (Franchise), Red Dead (Franchise), Blue Dragon (Franchise), Gun Survivor (Franchise), Lunar (Franchise), Touhou Project (Franchise), SaGa (Franchise), Oddworld (Franchise), Fatal Frame (Franchise), Gundam (Franchise), Ragnarok (Franchise), Pokémon Pinball (Franchise), Pokémon Ranger (Franchise), Tsukihime (Franchise), Serious Sam (Franchise), Fantasy Zone (Franchise), Mega Man Zero (Franchise), Skate (Franchise), Ogre Battle (Franchise), Tactics Ogre (Franchise), .hack (Franchise), Clannad (Franchise), To Heart (Franchise), Mega Man ZX (Franchise), Alundra (Franchise), Jissen Pachi-Slot Hisshouhou! (Franchise), House of the Dead (Franchise), BlazBlue (Franchise), Might and Magic (Franchise), Dead Space (Franchise), Heretic (Franchise), Science Adventure (Franchise), Souls (Franchise), Tengai Makyou (Franchise), Dark Messiah (Franchise), Battlefield (Franchise), Battlefield: Bad Company (Franchise), River City Ransom (Franchise), Obscure (Franchise), Variable Geo (Franchise), Dragon Slayer (Franchise), Steins;Gate Series (Franchise), The Legend of Heroes (Franchise), Senran Kagura (Franchise), Club Penguin (Franchise), Hakuoki (Franchise), Angry Birds (Franchise), Battalion Wars (Franchise), Serious Sam Indie Series (Franchise), Xanadu (Franchise), Shift (Franchise), Counter-Strike (Franchise), Yuji Horii Mysteries (Franchise), We Sing (Franchise), Wii Play (Franchise), Bravely Default (Franchise)

Characters

• Has characters: Mario (Character), Mr. Resetti (Character), Wario (Character), Sackboy (Character), Tony Hawk (Character), Luigi (Character), Pac-Man (Character), B.J. Blazkowicz (Character), Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad (Character), Ezio Auditore Da Firenze (Character), Kokoro Belmont (Character), Auric Goldfinger (Character), Dr. No (Character), Jonathan Hunter (Character), Oddjob (Character), Pussy Galore (Character), Gordon Freeman (Character), The Fisherman (Character), Tom Nook (Character), Nanami (Character), Pimple (Character), Rash (Character), Zitz (Character), Nikolai Orelov (Character), Ecco The Dolphin (Character), Don Resetti (Character), John Tanner (Character), Masao Kobayashi (Character), Aveline de Grandpré (Character), Adéwalé (Character), William Carter (Character), Shao Jun (Character), Arbaaz Mir (Character)

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People

Related Concepts

• Has related concepts: Minigame (Concept), Mascot Sports (Concept), Crossover (Concept), Interquel (Concept), Canon Spin-Off (Concept), Mid-development IP Split (Concept), Sequel is in a Different Genre (Concept)