List of Nintendo 64 role-playing games
The Nintendo 64 is infamous for having few role-playing games (RPGs), especially in comparison to its predecessor, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The major reason for this is that both Square and Enix (later merged into Square Enix in 2003) developed titles for the Sony PlayStation due to it utilizing a CD-ROM format. Many Nintendo 64 role-playing games were only released in Japan.
List of games[edit]
| Title | Year |
|---|---|
| PD Ultraman Battle Collection 64 (Japan only) | 1997 |
| Quest 64 | 1998 |
| Super Robot Wars 64 (Japan only) | 1999 |
| Zool: Maju Tsukai Densetsu (Japan only) | 1999 |
| Robot Ponkottsu 64: Nanatsu no Umi no Caramel (Japan only) | 1999 |
| Paper Mario | 2000 |
| Fushigi no Dungeon Fuurai no Shiren 2: Oni Shuurai! Shiren Jou! (Japan only) | 2000 |
| Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage | 2001 |
Games with a few role-playing elements[edit]
Action-adventure games can be very similar to role-playing games. One notable difference is that role-playing games give the player the choice to affect character development (e.g. having some degree of control over a party member's statistics), while action-adventure games have character development occur at fixed locations decided by the plot.
| Title | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Wonder Project J2 | 1996 | Simulation game with some role-playing elements (Japan only) |
| Hexen | 1997 | First-person action game with some role-playing elements |
| Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon | 1997 | Action-adventure game |
| The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | 1998 | Action-adventure game |
| Goemon's Great Adventure | 1998 | Action-platforming game with some role-playing elements |
| Gauntlet Legends | 1998 | Hack-and-slash (action) game |
| Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber | 1999 | Strategy game with role-playing elements |
| Harvest Moon 64 | 1999 | Simulation game with role-playing elements |
| Hybrid Heaven | 1999 | Action game with just a single one role-playing game element |
| The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask | 2000 | Action-adventure game |
| Mega Man 64 | 2000 | Action-adventure |
| Hamster Monogatari 64 | 2001 | Simulation game with some role-playing elements (Japan only) |
Hybrid Heaven is considered a role-playing game just because it uses Experience points, with random enemy battles, and turn-based battle system (somewhere between real time and turn based similar to Parasite Eve, with combo/brawl-like battle system similar to Legend of Legaia), although the rest of it has little in common with traditional role-playing games (with some game mechanics similar to Metal Gear Solid).
Daikatana for the N64 has limited stat-point "role-playing game-mechanics" too, but hardly affects the gameplay.
