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Persona

School by day, shadows by night

Atlus' Megami Tensei offshoot began in 1996. It pairs turn-based dungeon crawling with everyday student life, where the friends you make feed the power you fight with.

Explore the franchise

1996
First game: 7
Series: Atlus
Creator

In the framePersona 5 Royal

One world. Many eras.

Choose your chapter

The calendar years. Persona 3 and Persona 4 built the modern formula on PS2: a school year, a dungeon to climb and Social Links that make friendships part of the battle system.

Start with Persona 3

Your next late night

The essentials

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Persona 5 Royal

Atlus2019

Persona 3 Reload

P Studio2024

Chapters

Series (7)

PersonaThe original Persona, Atlus' 1996 spin-off from Shin Megami Tensei about students who summon Personas, and its 2009 PSP remake.Persona 2Atlus' two-part Persona 2 story, Innocent Sin (1999) and Eternal Punishment (2000), in which rumours spreading through a modern city come true.

A legacy worth revisiting

Your timetable is the game.

Persona 3 changed everything in 2006 by putting a school calendar at the centre of the RPG. Bonds with classmates shape your strength, and every day is a choice. Fighters, rhythm games and tactics spin-offs have since grown around that core.