r/JRPG • u/Marinebiologist_0 • Apr 27 '25

News Clair Obscur has achieved the highest concurrent player rate ever for a JRPG on Steam.

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Incredible numbers, this doesn't even include the Xbox Gamepass player count. The last time I remember a JRPG getting this level of attention was Persona 5 and NieR Automata in 2017. It'll be interesting to see how massive Persona 6 will be, if it launches day 1 on all major platforms.

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u/PM_ME_STEAMKEYS_PLS Apr 27 '25

All this thread is telling me and confirms for me is that JRPG has turned into a near worthless term lol

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u/yuriaoflondor Apr 27 '25

It's kind of always been an extremely vague term.

I think most people would agree that Ys 8, Final Fantasy 2, Etrian Odyssey, Fire Emblem, and Tales of Symphonia are JRPGs. But in terms of gameplay, these games are pretty diverse.

IMO it's more of a "does this game feel like JRPG" qualification, which - like you said - is pretty worthless.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25

I think most people would agree that Ys 8, Final Fantasy 2, Etrian Odyssey, Fire Emblem, and Tales of Symphonia are JRPGs. But in terms of gameplay, these games are pretty diverse.

It's only vague for the "any RPG from Japan is a JRPG crowd" the rest of us use it to refer to a specific breed of RPG

Final Fantasy 2 and Tales of Symphonia are JRPGs

Ys 8 is Adventure or Action Adventure or much like "Final Fantasy Adventure" on the Gameboy or the Mana series.

Etrian Odyssey is a dungeon crawler

Fire Emblem is tRPG/sRPG or Tactical Role playing game like FF Tactics or Unicorn Overlord.

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u/Paenitentia May 02 '25

Tales of Symphonia is also action, though. Also, that definition is equally insanely exclusionary to disallowing games not made in Japan. All of those games are near-universally considered jrpgs ever since each of their release dates. Ys has always been considered one, ditto the Mana series.