Gaming DS RPG List

[BORTZ]

Im really tired of seeing a new Any good action RPGs? Or Im a lazy ass, pick a game for me thread. Im going to put together a list of DS RPGs and other games that fall even close to that genre of gaming.
If you see a game placed in a glaring wrong catigory, let me know. If its just nit picky im not going to move it.
If you have a game in mind that i missed, tell me what it is and tell me which category it should fall under.


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Recent Edits: All categories are now in ALPHABETICAL ORDER for your convenience. ALSO. I have added the NDS Wifi symbol to games that have wifi connectivity.
I would like tho thank all of you who helped me compile this list. I really mean it. This cuts down on the "AnY RPgS" threads.
I would like the especially thank:
Silent Storm - for tons of youtube links to preview the games listed here. Almost the whole action RPG list.
armbeno - MOAR youtube links for RTS and the "close" category.
DeathStrudel - for the alphabetizer
777kidis777 - for the huge wifi list, there was no way i was gonna track down all those myself.



THE LIST (Dang this is getting huge and detailed. If anyone has anymore additions keep em coming.)

Traditional Turn-based RPGs
A Witch's Tale 57.44%
Black Sigil 64.78%
Chrono Trigger 91.82%
Dokapon Journey 67.47%
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans 72.89%
Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen 79.88%
Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride 84.43%
Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation
Dragon Quest IX

87.59%
Dungeon Maker N/A
Final Fantasy III

77.74%
Final Fantasy IV 85.09%
Final Fantasy: 4 Heroes of Light 73.97%
Glory of Heracles 70.59%
Golden Sun Dark Dawn 80.41%
Lunar: Dragon Song 59.41%
Magical Starsign

70.02%
My World, My Way 65.12%
Nostalgia 74.40%
Radiant Historia (turn-based with a 3x3 grid)
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure 69.36%
Sands of Destruction 65.89%
Sigma Harmonics N/A
Suikoden Tierkreis

75.85%
Wizard of Oz 69.45%


Turnbased with Button timed action
the halfway home for Mario and Luigi titles and the like.

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story 90.94%
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time 85.53%
Sonic Chronicles : The Dark Brotherhood 73.87%
Atlus USA Trailer: Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier 73.95%
Super Robot Taisen OG Saga : Endless Frontier EXCEED N/A

Action RPGs

Avalon Code

74.13%
Away Shuffle Dungeon 66.31%
Blue Dragon

64.41%
Children of Mana 67.73%
Choushoujuu Mecha MG (J) N/A
Contact

72.94%
Cross Treasures (J) N/A
custom robo arena

73.17%
Element Hunters (J)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates

76.94%
Inazuma Eleven
Keroro RPG Kishi to Musha to Densetsu no Kaizoku (J) N/A
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days 76.74%
Kingdom Hearts Re:coded 69.96%
Kaiju Busters (J) N/A
Lunar Knights: Vampire Hunters 82.39%
Lost Magic

70.93%
Lufia 2 75.17%
Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals N/A
Maple Story DS N/A (theres a translation around here somewhere)
Mega Man Star Force: Dragon

61.67%
Mega Man Star Force: Leo

59.50%
Mega Man Star Force: Pegasus

60.80%
Orcs & Elves 71.78%
Phantasy Star 0

74.24%
Pokemon Ranger 69.63%
Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon

79.39%
Rune Factory 2

80.58%
Rune Factory 3

83.80%
Ragnarok

55.58%
Steal Princess

60.73%
Soma Bringer (J) Translation Patch N/A
Summon Night Twin Age 74.18%
Spore Creatures

67.31%
Tales of Innocence (J) N/A Translation Patch
Tales of Hearts (J) N/A
Tales of Tempest (J) N/A
The World Ends With You 87.92%
YS books 1 & 2 71.55%


Tactics

ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat(J)
Atelier Annie
Bleach 3rd Phantom
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
Drone Tactics
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2
Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem: Hero(es) of Light and Shadow

Fire Emblem : Shadow Dragon

Front Mission 1st
Front Mission : 2089 Border of Madness (J)
Hero's Saga: Laevatein Tactics
Hoshigami Ruining Blue Earth Remix
Knights in the Nightmare
Luminous Arc

Luminous Arc 2

Luminous Arc 3 (J)

Pokemon conquest
Rondo of Swords
SD Gundam CrossDrive (J)
SD Gundam G Generation DS (J)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
Super Robot Taisen K (J) menu translation http://filetrip.net/...-Project-2.html
Super Robot Taisen L (J)
Super Robot Taisen W (J) menu translation http://filetrip.net/...ranslation.html
Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume


Real Time Strategy

Air Traffic Chaos
Anno 1701: Dawn of Discovery
Anno: Create a New World
Blue Dragon Plus
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
Heroes of Mana

Lego Battles

Lock's quest
Robocalypse


Monster Collection

Digimon World DS

Digimon World: Dawn

Digimon World: Dusk

Digimon Story: Lost Evolution(J)

Dragon Quest Monsters : Joker

Dragon Quest Monsters : Joker 2 (J)

Fossil Fighters
Monster Racers
Monster Rancher DS

Pokemon Black/White

Pokemon Diamond & Pearl

Pokemon Platinum

Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver

Pokemon Black and White
Pokemon Black and White 2
Pokemon Ranger: Guardian Signs
Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia
Spectrobes

Spectrobes: Beyond The Portals

Dungeon Crawlers

Dark Spire
Dungeon Explorer: Warrior of Ancient Arts
Etrian Odyssey
Etrian Odyssey II
Etrian Odyssey III
From The Abyss
Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja
Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja 2
Mysterious Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer

Mysterious Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 2 (J)

Mysterious Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 4 (J)

Mysterious Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 5 (J)

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time

SMT Strange Journey 80.66% (review)
Tao's Adventure: Curse of the Demon Seal


Partial RPGS
This is the "close" category. These are game that dont EXACTLY fit but you have a lot or RPG elements present, or i just dont know where to put a game.

Advance Wars DS
Advance Wars Days of Ruin/Dark Conflict

Age of Empires: The Age of Kings
Age of Empires: Mythologies
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin

Chocobo Tales

Emblem of Gundam
History's Great Empires: Rome
Infinite Space
Legend of Zelda : Phantom Hourglass

Legend of Zelda : Spirit Tracks

Might & Magic - Clash of Heroes
Military History Commander: Europe at War
Monster Tale
Panzer Tactics

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
Retro Game Challenge (includes a Dragon Quest sort of game if you unlock it)
Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution
Tom Clancy's Endwar

<3 Bortzy

 

[DJPlace]

nice list. and this should be stickey also. you forget one game.

sands of desctrion

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Zelda isn't a RPG. It's Action-Adventure.

Castlevania is an ARPG/platformer hybrid.

What about dungeon crawlers? Like Shiren and what not?

 

[Cloudywolf]

Sweet list, don't think I have much to add to it.

 

[Dark Blade]

Starfy's missing. But I'm not sure it comes in any of these categories.

Oh well. At least you stopped the "Good RPG games for NDS" threads BortzANATOR. Any more - we could make a book.

 

[Depravo]

you forget one game.

He forgot more than that. What about -

A Witch's Tale
Atelier Annie
Away Shuffle Dungeon
Black Sigil
Final Fantasy - Chocobo Tales
Glory of Heracles
Infinite Space
Nostalgia
Ragnarok
SMT Strange Journey
Steal Princess
Wizard of Oz

...and those are just the ones on my SD card. Oh, and Children of Mana is in no way a RTS.

 

[BORTZ]

Zelda isn't a RPG. It's Action-Adventure.

Castlevania is an ARPG/platformer hybrid.

What about dungeon crawlers? Like Shiren and what not?

I agree with you top 2 statements, but there are a lot of places around the internet that classify Zelda as an RPG, so i feel like im going to do the same. As for Caslevania, you level up, hack ans slash monsters and collect weapons.

Dungeon Crawlers... Um youll have to provide with the some game names. I was going to put stuff like Izluma and Entrain Odyssey in a category like that but didnt find enough to merit a category of its own.

 

[rockstar99]

SMT Strange Journey
Nostalgia
Infinite Space
Ragnarok

 

[BORTZ]

you forget one game.

He forgot more than that. What about -

A Witch's Tale
Atelier Annie
Away Shuffle Dungeon
Black Sigil
Final Fantasy - Chocobo Tales
Glory of Heracles
Infinite Space
Nostalgia
Ragnarok
SMT Strange Journey
Steal Princess
Wizard of Oz

...and those are just the ones on my SD card. Oh, and Children of Mana is in no way a RTS.

Good good this is what im looking for. But i would also like to know what category these should fall under so i dont have to search forever for the RPG genre. Its not that im lazy, its that i havent played a lot of these titles, and the internet in general isnt very good at telling me the specific genre, so i have to go find videos and determine it for myself.

 

[Prime_Zero]

Choushoujuu Mecha MG is one I think, it would go under action/adventure maybe? although its none engrish...

 

[penthaler]

And what about Dungeon Maker...
This one is NOT RPG?

(maybe turnbase RPG)

 

[pitman]

you forget one game.

He forgot more than that. What about -

A Witch's Tale - Traditional Turn-based RPGs
Atelier Annie - Traditional Turn-based RPGs
Away Shuffle Dungeon - Action RPGs
Black Sigil - Traditional Turn-based RPGs (almost sure)
Glory of Heracles - Traditional Turn-based RPGs
Nostalgia - Traditional Turn-based RPGs
SMT Strange Journey - Traditional Turn-based RPGs


...and those are just the ones on my SD card. Oh, and Children of Mana is in no way a RTS.

Here you go, the rest I'm not sure.

I think the Advance Wars games shouldn't be on the list since you don't develop or upgrade units (they don't have levels or/and gain exp).

Add this for Soma Bringer ( http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=78947 ) its the translation patch.

 

[Hells Malice]

Tales of Innocence, Hearts, and I guess Tempest should all be on the list under Action.

Nice list so far.

 

[Satangel]

you forget one game.

He forgot more than that. What about -

A Witch's Tale - Traditional Turn-based RPGs
Atelier Annie - Traditional Turn-based RPGs
Away Shuffle Dungeon - Action RPGs
Black Sigil - Traditional Turn-based RPGs (almost sure)
Glory of Heracles - Traditional Turn-based RPGs
Nostalgia - Traditional Turn-based RPGs
SMT Strange Journey - Traditional Turn-based RPGs


...and those are just the ones on my SD card. Oh, and Children of Mana is in no way a RTS.

Here you go, the rest I'm not sure.

I think the Advance Wars games shouldn't be on the list since you don't develop or upgrade units (they don't have levels or/and gain exp).

Add this for Soma Bringer ( http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=78947 ) its the translation patch.

In Days of Ruin they did earn XP and get stronger if they killed a few units.
First one no options though.

 

[BORTZ]

Ok i moved Advance Wars to the Other category.
I added the Soma Bringer patch to the list.
@Pitman, Thank you! thats what im lookin for. ill see what i can for the rest of them.

 

[Uncle FEFL]

Dungeon Crawlers should be its own category. Izulma, Etrian Odyssey, and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon are all Dungeon Crawlers.

You're missing Tao's Adventure: Curse of the Demon Seal from your list. It's a Dungeon Crawler as well, and plays almost exactly like Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. It's just as boring! http://www.gamespot.com/ds/rpg/taosadventure/index.html

Also, I'm pretty sure AW is a S/TRPG, but the Tempers here make a good point.

 

[Leamonde.Halcyon]

My World, My Way-Turn Based

Let me think...

Fossil Fighters - Monster Collection
Super Robot Taisen OG Saga Endless Frontier- Turn Based
The World Ends With You - Action RPG
Robocalypse - RTS
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords - Other
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood - Action? It's similar to mario and luigi RPGs
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans - Turn Based
Digimon World DS and Digimon World: Dusk and Digimon World: Dawn - Monster Collection
Magical Starsign - Turn Based
Blue Dragon Plus - RTS
Orcs & Elves - Action
The Dark Spire - Turn Based
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure - Turn Based
Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja - Action
Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns - Action
Away: Shuffle Dungeon - Action
Spore Creatures - Action
Dokapon Journey - Turnbased/Other
Tao's Adventure: Curse of the Demon Seal - Action

Children of Mana should be Actiion, you want Heroes of Mana under RTS

 

[Empoleom]

The Dark Spire - turn based
good look with the list

 

[BORTZ]

Updated with new section

Turnbased with Button timed actionthe halfway home for Mario and Luigi titles and the like.
Mario & Luigi : Partners in Time
Mario & Luigi : Bowsers inside story
Super Robot Taisen OG Saga Endless Frontier
Super Robot Taisen OG Saga Endless Frontier-EXCEED (J)
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

 

[taken]

What about Atlus Dark Spire which is a very good First person dungeon crawler. It is a rpg.