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Ace Attorney

edited 2026-05-21

A complete play, watch, and read order for Capcom's Ace Attorney franchise — covering every mainline courtroom game, the Investigations detective duology, the Victorian-era Great Ace Attorney prequel games, the Professor Layton crossover, the anime adaptation, and Takashi Miike's live-action film. Includes both release order and in-universe chronological order for the games.

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2015The first entry in the Great Ace Attorney duology, released for Nintendo 3DS in Japan in July 2015. Set in the Meiji era of 1890s Japan and…
02GAME
2017The second and concluding entry of the Great Ace Attorney duology, released for Nintendo 3DS in Japan in August 2017. Continuing directly fr…
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2001The 2001 Game Boy Advance series debut, directed by Shu Takumi and originally titled Gyakuten Saiban. Rookie defense attorney Phoenix Wright…
04GAME
2002The second entry in the series, released for Game Boy Advance in Japan in 2002. Phoenix Wright returns to defend four new clients across inc…
05GAME
2004The third main entry and conclusion of the original Phoenix Wright trilogy, released for Game Boy Advance in Japan in 2004. The game expands…
06GAME
2009The 2009 Nintendo DS spinoff shifting perspective from the courtroom to the crime scene, with rival prosecutor Miles Edgeworth as the playab…
07GAME
2011The 2011 Nintendo DS sequel to Investigations, continuing Miles Edgeworth's solo career as a detective-prosecutor. The game's five cases esc…
08GAME
2007The fourth mainline entry, released for Nintendo DS in Japan in April 2007 and North America in February 2008. Seven years after the events…
09GAME
2013The fifth mainline entry and first fully three-dimensional Ace Attorney game, released for Nintendo 3DS in 2013. Phoenix Wright returns to t…
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2016The sixth mainline entry, released for Nintendo 3DS in 2016. Phoenix Wright travels to the Kingdom of Khura'in, a theocratic nation where de…
11GAME
2012A 2012 Nintendo 3DS crossover between Capcom's Ace Attorney and Level-5's Professor Layton series, developed jointly by both companies. Prof…
12GAME
2014The 2014 compilation remaster of the first three Ace Attorney titles — Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Justice for All, and Trials and Tribula…
13GAME
2021The 2021 worldwide compilation of the Great Ace Attorney duology — The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures and The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve…
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2024The September 2024 HD remaster compilation of both Investigations titles — Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth and Ace Attorney Inv…