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Breath of Fire

edited 2026-06-18

A complete play order for the Breath of Fire series — all six mainline Capcom JRPGs from the 1993 Super NES original through the 2016 mobile entry. Each game tells a self-contained story with recurring characters named Ryu and Nina, making release order the recommended starting point for newcomers.

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01GAME
1993Capcom's 1993 Super NES RPG and the series debut, co-developed with Square Soft for the North American localization. A boy named Ryu — one o…
02GAME
1994The 1994 Super NES direct sequel to Breath of Fire, set 500 years after the events of the first game. Sixteen-year-old Ryu Bateson, an orpha…
03GAME
1997The 1997 PlayStation entry and the first in the series to feature three-dimensional graphics. Ryu, the last surviving member of the dragon-t…
04GAME
2000The 2000 PlayStation entry, directed by Makoto Ikehara, featuring a dual-protagonist structure that alternates between amnesiac Ryu and the…
05GAME
2002The 2002 PlayStation 2 entry — released as Breath of Fire V in Japan — representing a radical departure from the series' fantasy tone. Set i…
06GAME
2016The 2016 online RPG released exclusively in Japan for Windows, Android, and iOS — the first Breath of Fire title not to debut on a home cons…