This article is about the video game series. For the 1995 video game, see Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner.
Video game series
Devil Summoner
Logo for the first game, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner. The font and styling varies throughout the series.
Genre(s)
Role-playing
Developer(s)
Atlus
Publisher(s)
JP: Atlus
NA: Atlus USA
EU: Koei, NIS America, Sega
Creator(s)
Kouji Okada
Platform(s)
Microsoft Windows, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo 3DS, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
First release
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner December 25, 1995[1]
Latest release
Soul Hackers 2 August 25, 2022[2]
Parent series
Megami Tensei
Devil Summoner,[a] initially marketed as Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner, is a video game franchise developed and primarily published by Atlus. Focused on a series of role-playing video games, Devil Summoner is a spin-off from Atlus' Megami Tensei franchise. The first entry in the series, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner, was released in 1995 for the Sega Saturn. The series has seen several more games since, with the most recent main entry being Soul Hackers 2 released in 2022.
Devil Summoner began as a spin-off based on the positively-received Shin Megami Tensei If... (1994). The games, set on an alternate Earth between the 1930s and a fictionalized near-future, featuring a person either related to or holding the Kuzunoha family name using demons to investigate cases involving the supernatural. Created by Kouji Okada, the series was developed by multiple Megami Tensei veterans including artist Kazuma Kaneko and composer Shoji Meguro. While each entry has a different story and time period, it shares a universe and uses recurrent detective story elements.
The series remained exclusive to Japan until the release of Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army in 2006, with all games apart from the original receiving English localizations from Atlus USA. Several entries have been supported by spin-off media and supplementary game materials. The first two Devil Summoner titles were among the best-selling titles for the Saturn. Games in the series have seen generally positive reception internationally.
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DevilSummoner, initially marketed as Shin Megami Tensei: DevilSummoner, is a video game franchise developed and primarily published by Atlus. Focused...
sequel and several sub-series, such as the Persona and DevilSummoner series. The original Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei games and the Shin Megami Tensei...
fifth installment in the DevilSummoner series, itself a part of the larger Megami Tensei franchise, and a sequel to DevilSummoner: Soul Hackers (1997)....
core of the series, while other subseries such as Persona, Devil Children, and DevilSummoner are spin-offs marketed as part of the franchise. There are...
several spin-offs and sub-series, such as Shin Megami Tensei, Persona and DevilSummoner. In addition to the console and computer releases, there are Megami...
continued to work on several projects in the mid to late 1990s, including DevilSummoner: Soul Hackers on the Sega Saturn, composing around 50 pieces for the...
work under Kaneko. In this capacity, he worked on Shin Megami Tensei: DevilSummoner, Revelations: Persona and Kartia: The Word of Fate, alongside minor...
Megami Tensei series of games, first appearing in Shin Megami Tensei: DevilSummoner. Detour (1997) – An episode of The X-Files in which Agent Mulder hypothesises...
companies Capcom and Konami, designing Dante and Vergil's Devil Trigger forms in the video game Devil May Cry 3, as well as designing the characters Inhert...
Narumi (鳴海), a character in the video games DevilSummoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army and DevilSummoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon Akiko...
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introduced in the 1995 game DevilSummoner, and has since appeared in Devil Children: Book of Fire and Book of Ice, Devil Survivor 2, Shin Megami Tensei...
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