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Within the “PlayStation” category, the closest game to Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor is Persona 2: Eternal Punishment — scoring 75/100 on our similarity scale. Persona 4 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard follow close behind.
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Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor. Each one has been evaluated across 11 real attributes — from combat style and progression mechanics to world structure and visual perspective — so every recommendation is based on how the game actually plays, not just its genre label.
✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, turn-based strategy and dark, oppressive atmosphere
≠ Where it differs: brings adventure storytelling and melee combat, while skipping visual novel storytelling
Same studio: Atlus.
✓ Same family of third-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, turn-based strategy and strong narrative focus
≠ Its own twist: adventure storytelling, open world exploration and melee combat, while skipping visual novel storytelling
Where it drifts furthest from Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor: setting.
Same studio: Atlus.
✓ Same family of third-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, turn-based strategy and strong narrative focus
≠ Its own twist: action RPG combat, adventure storytelling and melee combat, while skipping visual novel storytelling
Where it drifts furthest from Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor: setting and tone.
Released 15 years after Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor.
✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, turn-based strategy and strong narrative focus
≠ Where it differs: brings adventure storytelling, ranged combat and fantasy world, while skipping visual novel storytelling
Where it drifts furthest from Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor: setting.
Same studio: Atlus.
✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, turn-based strategy and combat tactical
≠ Its own twist: card game strategy, adventure storytelling and fantasy world, while skipping visual novel storytelling
Marvel’s Midnight Suns is a new tactical RPG set in the darker side of the Marvel Universe, putting you face-to-face against demonic forces of the underworld as you team up with and live among the Midnight Suns, Earth's last line of defense.
Where it drifts furthest from Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor: setting.
Released 13 years after Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor.
✓ Fits the third-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, strong narrative focus and dark, oppressive atmosphere
≠ Where it differs: brings action RPG combat, adventure storytelling and puzzle design, while skipping visual novel storytelling
The castle is the achievement: densely built, worth exploring on its own terms, and full of small detail. Spell-chaining combat is more involved than expected. Outside it, the open world follows a familiar checklist of camps and puzzles, and the main story resolves in a rush that leaves several threads sitting unfinished.
Where it drifts furthest from Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor: setting.
Released 14 years after Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor.
✓ Fits the third-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, strong narrative focus and dark, oppressive atmosphere
≠ Its own twist: action RPG combat, adventure storytelling and sandbox freedom, while skipping visual novel storytelling
Where it drifts furthest from Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor: setting.
Released 3 years after Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor.
✓ Fits the third-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, dark, oppressive atmosphere and combat magic
≠ Stands apart with action RPG combat, puzzle design and precision platforming, while skipping visual novel storytelling
Where it drifts furthest from Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor: combat.
It predates Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor by 11 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, strong narrative focus and dark, oppressive atmosphere
≠ Its own twist: action RPG combat, adventure storytelling and open world exploration, while skipping visual novel storytelling
An old-school European RPG: three factions with genuinely different magic schools, a world that does not scale to your level, and exploration that rewards wandering into places you are not ready for. Combat is its weakest link — stiff, poorly telegraphed, and frustrating in the early hours before your character is competent at anything.
Where it drifts furthest from Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor: setting.
Released 5 years after Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor.
✓ Same family of third-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, strong narrative focus and dark, oppressive atmosphere
≠ Stands apart with action RPG combat, adventure storytelling and open world exploration, while skipping visual novel storytelling
The third game in a series, it holds nothing back from the player. Open world adventures of the renowned monster slayer Geralt of Rivia are now even on a larger scale.
Where it drifts furthest from Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor: setting.
Released 6 years after Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor.
✓ Same family of third-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, dark, oppressive atmosphere and horror setting
≠ Stands apart with action RPG combat, precision platforming and adventure storytelling, while skipping visual novel storytelling
✓ Fits the third-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, dark, oppressive atmosphere and horror setting
≠ Stands apart with action RPG combat, precision platforming and adventure storytelling, while skipping visual novel storytelling
✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, dark, oppressive atmosphere and horror setting
≠ Where it differs: brings action RPG combat, adventure storytelling and fantasy world, while skipping visual novel storytelling
Where it drifts furthest from Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor: setting.
✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, dark, oppressive atmosphere and combat magic
≠ Stands apart with action RPG combat, while skipping visual novel storytelling
Released 3 years after Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor.
✓ Same family of third-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, strong narrative focus and single-player focus
≠ Stands apart with action RPG combat, adventure storytelling and fantasy world, while skipping visual novel storytelling
Where it drifts furthest from Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor: setting.
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