Category:Mystery Dungeon

Mystery Dungeon
Developer(s)	Chunsoft
Publisher(s)	Chunsoft, Sega, Nintendo
Year introduced	1993
Genre(s)	Roguelike
Parent series	Dragon Quest
Website	http://www.sega.com/games/mystery-dungeon-shiren-the-wanderer/

Mystery Dungeon (不思議のダンジョン, Fushigi no Dungeon^?) is a series of roguelike video games, most of which were developed by Chunsoft, but with select titles in the series developed under license by other companies. Although all games in the series bear the Fushigi no Dungeon moniker somewhere in their Japanese titles, only the Shiren the Wanderer games contain original characters; all others license their characters from other role-playing game franchises.

The first title, Torneko no Daibouken: Fushigi no Dungeon starred Torneko, a shopkeeper character from the same developer's Dragon Quest IV (Chunsoft being developer of the first five games in the Dragon Quest series). Crossover series of Mystery Dungeon titles are the Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon series (which includes Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon) and the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series.

Mystery Dungeon games are notable for being among the few console games in the roguelike genre. The series has inspired similar titles in Japan, most of which appropriate their games mechanics from Mystery Dungeon, rather than Rogue itself.

Gameplay[edit | edit source]

Most of the Mystery Dungeon games center around exploring randomly generated dungeons and fighting monsters in a turn-based environment. Every action consumes a turn, rather than only battles being turn-based, so the movement of the player and monsters occurs in turns, and performing actions such as using items consumes turns as well. When the player's character dies, the character loses everything, except what they have stored in various pre-determined locations along the way, or in special container items.

Games[edit | edit source]

Dragon Quest Mystery Dungeons[edit | edit source]

N.	Original title	Localized title	Year	Systems
1	トルネコの大冒険 不思議のダンジョン Torneko's Great Adventure: Mystery Dungeon	-	1993	SNES
2	ドラゴンクエスト・キャラクターズ トルネコの大冒険2 ～不思議のダンジョン～ Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko's Great Adventure 2 ～Mystery Dungeon～	Torneko: The Last Hope	1999	PS1 GBA
3	ドラゴンクエスト・キャラクターズ トルネコの大冒険3 ～不思議のダンジョン～ Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko's Great Adventure 3 ～Mystery Dungeon～	-	2002	PS2, GBA
4	ドラゴンクェスト　少年ヤンガスと不思議のダンジョン Dragon Quest: Young Yangus and the Mystery Dungeon	-	2006	PS2

Shiren the Wanderer[edit | edit source]

For more details on this topic, see :Category:Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer.

Crossovers[edit | edit source]

For more details on this topic, see Pokémon Mystery Dungeon.

Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon

N.	Original title	Localized title	Year	Systems
1	チョコボの不思議なダンジョン Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon	-	1997	PS1
2	チョコボの不思議なダンジョン2 Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon 2	Chocobo's Dungeon 2	1998	PS1
3	チョコボの不思議なダンジョン 時忘れの迷宮 Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon: The Labyrinth of Forgotten Time	Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon	2007	Wii DS (enhanced)

Standalone crossovers

Original title	Localized title	Year	Systems
The Nightmare of Druaga 不思議のダンジョン The Nightmare of Druaga: Mystery Dungeon	The Nightmare of Druaga: Fushigi no Dungeon	2004	PS2
Kidou Senshi Gundam: Fushigi no Dungeon Mobile Suit Gundam: Mystery Dungeon	-	2004	Phones
TwinBee Dungeon	-	2004	Phones
世界樹と 不思議のダンジョン Etrian Mystery Dungeon	Etrian Mystery Dungeon	2015	3DS
不思議のクロニクル 振リ返リマセン勝ツマデハ Mystery Chronicle: I Won't Look Back until I Win	Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics	2015	PS4, PSV, Win