| 3DS | Cave Story 3D | Studio Pixel/Nicalis | Renders the original game with 3D graphics, throws in crossover content/references, adds a dynamic camera and additional level |
| 3DS | Moco Moco Friends | Racjin | A saccharine-sweet creature-collecting/raising game with a bunch of magical girls raising and evolving plushies |
| DS | Final Fantasy III | Matrix Software/Square Enix | First appearance of the job-heavy game in the west |
| DS | Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver | Game Freak | Remakes of the Gen 2 Pokemon games, with the storyline from Crystal attached, can also make use of the Pokewalker accessory |
| FC | Dream Master | Birthday | Not Little Nemo! More puzzle-based than most games of the era, cool concept |
| FC | Kaijuu Monogatari | Birthday | Pretty standard, but also super-hard at the beginning |
| FC | Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru Gaiden | Westone | Very Zelda II vibes, based off the anime of the same name |
| GBA | Boktai: The Sun Is In Your Hand | KCEJ | That crazy Kojima made an ARPG where you have to use actual UV rays to power your weapons! |
| GBA | Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance | KCET | Metroidvania with room decorating and traveling between dimensions to progress |
| JP Game Gear | Phantasy Star Gaiden | Japan System Supply | Spinoff story set between Phantasy Star I and II, similar gameplay |
| JP N64 | Custom Robo | Noise Inc. | First game in the robot customizing (hah) and fighting series; upgrades to robots are bought rather than earned |
| NES | Dark Lord | Data East | Mix of overhead and turn-based combat |
| NES | Kawa no Nushi Tsuri | Yuu Yuu | It's a fishing JRPG! |
| PS2 | Baroque | Sting | Morbid, dark rogue-like |
| PS2 | Odin Sphere | Vanillaware | Side-scrolling beat-em-up ARPG with a gorgeous art style |
| PS2 | Okage: Shadow King | Zener Works/SCE | Cute spooky-themed JRPG |
| PS2 | Wild Arms 5 | Media.Vision | Back to Filgaia's Wild West theme, but maintains the hex system from WA4 |
| PS2 | Yakuza | Amusement Vision | Tons of minigames, ARPG combat, and a badass protagonist; lots of major Hollywood actors in the English voice cast |
| PS2 | Ys: The Ark of Napishtim | Falcom | Technically Ys VI; Adol can jump now, so that's cool |
| PS3 | Fairy Fencer F | Compile Heart | Not the most impressive technically, but a solid turn-based positional battle system and a decent cast of characters |
| PS3 | Trinity: Souls of Zill O'll | Omega Force | ARPG with 3 different playable characters that can be switched between on the fly, first of its series to be localized |
| PS4 | Arc of Alchemist (DL only) | Compile Heart | A humdrum ARPG with character progression partially tied to a base-building system |
| PS4 | Conception Plus: Maidens of the Twelve Stars | Spike Chunsoft | A remake of the first Conception game; increasing your bond with different women to produce "children" who will become your allies in battle |
| PS4 | Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force | Compile Heart/Idea Factory | Adds two branching story paths, allows for a larger party size in combat, and gives more difficulty options to choose from |
| PS4 | Trials of Mana | Xeen/Square Enix | Brings the game into 3D, adds new difficulty levels, gives characters abilities for buffs, adds an extra class tier, among many other QoL changes |
| PS4 | Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth | Aquaplus | See Vita |
| PS4 | Zanki Zero: Last Beginning | Spike Chunsoft | A visual novel/survival RPG hybrid with levels awarding skill points, exploration is like a first-person dungeon crawler and combat is real-time; lots of managing deaths |
| PS5 | Nioh 2 Remastered - The Complete Edition (DL only) | Team Ninja | Contains all available DLC and graphical/framerate upgrades, as well as speedier load times |
| PSX | Final Fantasy Chronicles | Tose/Square | Contains inferior versions of Final Fantasy IV and Chrono Trigger |
| PSX | Front Mission 3 | Square | First localized title in the series, greater focus on learning abilities from mech parts |
| SFC | Mystic Ark | Produce | A cousin to The 7th Saga, super grindy |
| SNES | Breath of Fire II | Capcom | Direct sequel to BoF I |
| SNES | Robotrek | Quintet/Ancient | Customize your robo-buddy party! |
| Switch | Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky DX (DL only) | Gust | See PS4 |
| Switch | Shining Resonance Refrain | O-Two/Sega/Media.Vision | See PS4 |
| Vita | Accel World vs. Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight (DL only) | Kadokawa | Essentially a sequel to Lost Song but with some crossover characters, time travel shenanigans, and the same boring ARPG gameplay |
| Vita | Cladun x2 (DL only) | System Prisma/Nippon Ichi | See PSP |
| Vita | Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth | Media.Vision | Turn-based Digimon collectathon with a story somewhat reminisent of .hack |
| Vita | Frane: Dragons' Odyssey (DL only) | Exe-Create | Kemco's stab at an ARPG, which lacks necessary tutorials; typically a second character assists in combat though this is not the case during boss battles |
| Vita | Secret of Mana (DL only) | Q Studios/Square | Remade in 3D with a lot of the original visual charm missing, a new translation, adds voiced dialogue and makes QoL changes |
| Vita | Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus | Tamsoft | Choose a shinobi school to represent and show superiority over other schools by using 3D beat-em-up gameplay and (for some reason) tearing your clothes off |
| Vita | Super Robot Wars V (Asia English) | B.B. Studio | See PS4 |
| Vita | The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (DL only) | Falcom | See PSP |
| Vita | Xenogears (PSone Classics) | Square | See PSX |
| Xbox One | Dark Souls: Remastered | FromSoftware/QLOC | Includes all DLC and some QoL improvements, but otherwise largely unchanged (besides visually) |
| Xbox One | Yakuza Kiwami 2 (DL only) | Ryu ga Gotoku Studio | See PS4 |
| Xbox Series | Yakuza 3 Remastered (DL only) | Ryu ga Gotoku Studio | See PS4 |
| Xbox Series | Yakuza 4 Remastered (DL only) | Ryu ga Gotoku Studio | See PS4 |
| Switch | Mercenaries Blaze: Dawn of the Twin Dragons (DL only) | Rideon | Standard SRPG gameplay; takes a bit of a ham-handed approach to modern sensitive topics plotwise |
| Switch | Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster | Atlus | See PS4 |
