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Turn-based

RPGs with turn-based battle system.
People who added this item 486 Average listal rating (419 ratings) 9 IMDB Rating 0
Chrono Trigger - Super famicom and SNES


The classic dream team, a union of devs from Square and Enix, competitors at the time, most notably Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy, and Yuji Horii, the creator of Dragon Quest. Also, art by Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball.

The game is themed around time travel, features no random encounters and is awesome. And oh god the soundtrack by Yasunori Mitsuda is lovely!

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People who added this item 169 Average listal rating (103 ratings) 8.8 IMDB Rating 0
Final Fantasy VI - Super famicom and SNES
Released in the west as Final Fantasy III.
People who added this item 117 Average listal rating (71 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 0
Final Fantasy V - Super famicom and SNES

One of the best implementations of the job system

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People who added this item 87 Average listal rating (62 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 0
Final Fantasy IV - Super famicom and SNES


Released in the west as Final Fantasy II.

People who added this item 174 Average listal rating (84 ratings) 6 IMDB Rating 0
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest - Super famicom and SNES

A dumbed down Final Fantasy game, made for beginners.
People who added this item 48 Average listal rating (23 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 0
Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi - Super famicom and SNES

RPG from Square's at the time rival Enix.
People who added this item 37 Average listal rating (17 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 0
Dragon Quest V: Tenkuu no Hanayome - Super famicom and SNES

This DQ added the ability to recruit monsters to use in battle.
People who added this item 16 Average listal rating (10 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 0

Remake of the third Dragon Quest, originally released on the NES.
People who added this item 19 Average listal rating (12 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 0
Dragon Quest I・II - Super famicom and SNES

Remakes of the first two DQ games, originally released on the NES.
People who added this item 491 Average listal rating (315 ratings) 8 IMDB Rating 0


A Mario RPG! By none other than Square itself. The game also doesn't have random encounters and its graphics are prerendered. It also notable because the cartridge used a special chip called SA1.

People who added this item 108 Average listal rating (54 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 0
Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals - Super famicom and SNES


Famous for its puzzles, it has no random encounters within dungeons.

People who added this item 70 Average listal rating (24 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 0
Lufia & the Fortress of Doom - Super famicom and SNES
People who added this item 111 Average listal rating (58 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 0
Breath of Fire II - Super famicom and SNES

JRPG from Capcom

People who added this item 122 Average listal rating (56 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 0
Breath of Fire - Super famicom and SNES
People who added this item 33 Average listal rating (15 ratings) 7.9 IMDB Rating 0
Romancing SaGa 3 - Super famicom and SNES
People who added this item 10 Average listal rating (4 ratings) 8 IMDB Rating 0
Romancing Saga 2 - Super famicom and SNES

This game is a generational saga, meaning that your character dies and you take on the role of his son and so on and so forth.
People who added this item 9 Average listal rating (3 ratings) 8.7 IMDB Rating 0
Romancing Saga - Super famicom and SNES

The SaGa series is famous for being open-ended JRPGs. From the beginning, for example, you can chose one of eight characters to play as.
People who added this item 396 Average listal rating (263 ratings) 8.4 IMDB Rating 0
EarthBound - Super famicom and SNES

No random encounters.
People who added this item 6 Average listal rating (3 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 0
Far East of Eden Zero - Super famicom and SNES

This game's cartridge used a special decompression chip called SPC7110.
People who added this item 4 Average listal rating (3 ratings) 6 IMDB Rating 0
Lennus II: Fuuin no Shito - Super famicom and SNES
Sequel to Paladin's Quest.
People who added this item 34 Average listal rating (10 ratings) 6.7 IMDB Rating 0
Paladin's Quest - Super famicom and SNES

Also known (in Japan) as Lennus.

People who added this item 15 Average listal rating (9 ratings) 8 IMDB Rating 0
Rudra no Hihou - Super famicom and SNES
People who added this item 4 Average listal rating (3 ratings) 6.7 IMDB Rating 0
The Magical Land of Wozz - Super famicom and SNES
People who added this item 4 Average listal rating (2 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 0
Mystic Ark - Super famicom and SNES
It is similar to 7th Saga and, like it, Ark features a radar of random encounters in the overworld.
People who added this item 41 Average listal rating (19 ratings) 5.7 IMDB Rating 0
The 7th Saga - Super famicom and SNES

This game features a radar of random encounters so you can avoid some of them. It has in Mystic Ark a spiritual successor.
Super Shell Monster Story II

Apparently, this game used the same special chip on the cartridge as Far East of Eden Zero.
Super Shell Monster Story

This is made by Hudson Soft, famous for the Bomberman games.
People who added this item 7 Average listal rating (5 ratings) 6.2 IMDB Rating 0
Dual Orb II - Super famicom and SNES
Dark Kingdom

This game wasn't translated to english. It was made by Telenet.
People who added this item 3 Average listal rating (2 ratings) 5.5 IMDB Rating 0
Silva Saga II - Super famicom and SNES
People who added this item 44 Average listal rating (24 ratings) 7.9 IMDB Rating 0
Live A Live - Super famicom and SNES

In this unique RPG, you play seven different stories with different main characters that seem unrelated at first, but come together at the end. Also, each of the different chapters has a specific gimmick.
People who added this item 43 Average listal rating (16 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 0
Robotrek - Super famicom and SNES

In this humorous game by Quintet and Ancient, you create robots like Pokémons.
People who added this item 5 Average listal rating (2 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 0
Metal Max Returns - Super famicom and SNES

Part of the Metal Max series, this is a remake of the 1st game, released on the NES. It is more open-ended than JRPGs usually are. This game franchise is defined by the vehicles characters can use, improve and fight with.
People who added this item 2 Average listal rating (0 ratings) 0 IMDB Rating 0
Metal Max 2 - Super famicom and SNES
Heracles no Eikou IV: Kamigami kara no Okurimono...

This is themed around ancient Greece and its myths, specially that of Hercules. It's made by Data East. It's unique in that you can take the body of certain NPCs (become them temporarily).
Traverse: Starlight & Prairie
People who added this item 3 Average listal rating (2 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 0
Arabian Nights - Super famicom and SNES

Based on the OVA anime of the same name.
Akazukin ChaCha

Untranslated SNES game based on the anime of the same name.
People who added this item 9 Average listal rating (3 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 0
Magic Knight Rayearth - Super famicom and SNES

Based on the anime of the same name.
People who added this item 6 Average listal rating (3 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 0
Slayers - Super famicom and SNES

It was based on the anime of the same name.
People who added this item 21 Average listal rating (11 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 0

Based on the anime of the same name.
SD Gundam Gaiden 2: Entaku no Kishi

These Gundam RPGs resemble Dragon Quest and are a part of the SD line of Gundam featuring super deformed versions of them.
SD Gundam Gaiden: Knight Gundam Monogatari: Ooinaru Isan...
Shinseiki Odysselya II
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Shinseiki Odysselya (JP) - Super famicom and SNES
Albert Odyssey 2
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Super Nintendo/Super Famicon role playing games. I'm deliberately avoiding games of the Strategy variety, otherwise the lines between what an RPG start to blur so much I can't know. I mean, the lines are blurred enough on the Action-RPG department. Langrisser is probably an SRPG, but it is so different from the usual SRPG. That's why games like Langrisser aren't here.

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