Mystery Dungeon (Japanese: 不思議のダンジョン, Hepburn: Fushigi no Dungeon) is a series of roguelike video games. Most of the titles were developed by Chunsoft; other titles were developed by different companies with permission from Chunsoft to use the trademark. Koichi Nakamura, founder of Chunsoft and co-creator of the Dragon Quest series, conceived the Mystery Dungeon series as Chunsoft's first original work, basing the design on the game Rogue.[1] Most Mystery Dungeon games center on exploring a dungeon with randomly generated layouts and fighting other characters in those dungeons in a turn-based manner; every time the player performs an action, such as attacking or walking, the opponents also take action.[2]
The first game, Torneko's Great Adventure (1993), stars a shopkeeper character from Dragon Quest IV. The games of the Mystery Dungeon series can be largely divided into five groups: those related to the Dragon Quest series; the Shiren the Wanderer series; those related to the Chocobo series, itself a spin-off of the Final Fantasy series; those related to the Pokémon franchise; and individual spin-off games of other franchises. Of the games, only the Shiren series are based on original characters rather than those of other franchises. The Mystery Dungeon games have had varying levels of success. Of them, the Pokémon games have had the biggest impact, with the first game in the subseries selling millions of copies.[2] Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon also sold over one million copies.[3]
Games
Dragon Quest series
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Torneko's Great Adventure | September 19, 1993[4] | none | none |
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Torneko: The Last Hope | September 15, 1999[5] | November 15, 2000[5] | none |
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Torneko's Great Adventure 3 | October 31, 2002[7] | none | none |
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Dragon Quest: Young Yangus and the Mystery Dungeon | April 20, 2006[9] | none | none |
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Dragon Quest: Mystery Dungeon Mobile | August 7, 2006[10] | none | none |
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Dragon Quest: More Mystery Dungeon Mobile | September 14, 2009[11] | none | none |
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Shiren the Wanderer series
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North America |
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Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer | December 1, 1995[4] | March 4, 2008 (Nintendo DS)[12] | March 20, 2008 (Nintendo DS)[12] |
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BS Fūrai no Shiren Surara wo Sukue | May 1996[14] | none | none |
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Shiren the Wanderer GB: Monster of Moonlight Village | November 22, 1996[15] | none | none |
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Shiren the Wanderer 2: Shiren's Castle and the Oni Invasion | September 27, 2000[19] | none | none |
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Shiren the Wanderer GB2: Magic Castle of the Desert | July 19, 2001[20] | none | none |
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Shiren the Wanderer Gaiden: Asuka the Swordswoman | February 7, 2002[22] | none | none |
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Shiren Monsters: Netsal | April 22, 2004[24] | none | none |
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Shiren the Wanderer | June 5, 2008[25] | February 9, 2010[25] | none |
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Shiren the Wanderer 4: The Eye of God and the Devil's Navel | February 25, 2010[27] | none | none |
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Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate | December 9, 2010[28] | July 26, 2016[29] | July 26, 2016[29] |
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Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island | January 25, 2024[32] | February 27, 2024[33] | February 27, 2024[33] |
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Chocobo series
Title | Original release date | ||
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North America |
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Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon | December 23, 1997[34] | none | none |
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Chocobo's Dungeon 2 | December 23, 1998[37] | November 30, 1999[37] | none |
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Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon | December 13, 2007[39] | July 8, 2008[39] | November 7, 2008[39] |
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Pokémon series
Title | Original release date | ||
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Japan |
North America |
PAL region | |
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team | November 17, 2005[42][43] | September 18, 2006[42][43] | November 10, 2006[42][43] |
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness | September 11, 2007[45][46] | April 20, 2008[45][46] | July 4, 2008[45][46] |
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky | April 18, 2009[47] | October 12, 2009[47] | November 20, 2009[47] |
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Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon: Susume! Honoo no Boukendan, Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon: Ikuzo! Arashi no Boukendan, and Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon: Mezase! Hikari no Boukendan | August 4, 2009[48][49] | none | none |
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity | November 23, 2012[50] | March 24, 2013[50] | May 17, 2013[50] |
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Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon | September 17, 2015[51] | November 20, 2015[52] | February 19, 2016[51] |
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Etrian Odyssey series
Title | Original release date | ||
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Japan |
North America |
PAL region | |
Etrian Mystery Dungeon | March 5, 2015[53] | April 7, 2015[53] | September 11, 2015[54] |
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Sekaiju to Fushigi no Dungeon 2 | August 31, 2017[55] | none | none |
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Individual releases
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North America |
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The Nightmare of Druaga: Fushigi no Dungeon | July 29, 2004[56] | October 27, 2004[56] | none |
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Kidō Senshi Gundam: Fushigi no Dungeon | April 19, 2004[57] | none | none |
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TwinBee Dungeon | May 13, 2004[58] | none | none |
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Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics | July 30, 2015[59] | September 13, 2016[60] | September 13, 2016 (PC) |
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