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

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

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.