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Tales of (RPG series)

edited 2026-06-18

A complete play order for the Tales of RPG series — every mainline entry from Tales of Phantasia (1995) through Tales of Arise (2021), plus escort and spinoff titles. Each mainline game is a self-contained story with new protagonists and world, so release order is the standard recommendation.

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01GAME
1995The 1995 Super Famicom debut of the Tales series, developed by Wolf Team and published by Namco. Young swordsman Cress Albane returns from a…
02GAME
1997The 1997 PlayStation sequel and second mainline entry, developed by Namco Tales Studio. Country-born adventurer Stahn Aileron stows away on…
03GAME
2000The 2000 PlayStation third mainline entry, developed by Namco Tales Studio and released in North America under the title Tales of Destiny II…
04GAME
2002The 2002 PlayStation 2 direct sequel to Tales of Destiny, co-developed by Wolf Team and Telenet Japan and published by Namco. Set eighteen y…
05GAME
2003The 2003 GameCube and PlayStation 2 fifth mainline entry, developed by Namco Tales Studio — the first 3D Tales game and the first to receive…
06GAME
2004The 2004 PlayStation 2 sixth mainline entry, developed by Namco Tales Studio and published exclusively in Japan. The story is set in a world…
07GAME
2005The 2005 PlayStation 2 seventh mainline entry, developed by Project Melfes (a subsidiary team) and published by Namco. Young Alliance Marine…
08GAME
2005The 2005 PlayStation 2 eighth mainline entry, developed by Namco Tales Studio and published as the series' 10th anniversary title. Luke fon…
09GAME
2007The 2007 Nintendo DS ninth mainline entry, developed by Alfa System and published by Bandai Namco exclusively in Japan. Protagonist Ruca Mil…
10GAME
2008The 2008 Nintendo DS eleventh mainline entry, developed by Namco Tales Studio and published in Japan. Somatic-in-training Kor Meteor encount…
11GAME
2008The 2008 Xbox 360 tenth mainline entry, developed by Namco Tales Studio. Former Imperial Knight turned guild leader Yuri Lowell becomes embr…
12GAME
2009The 2009 Wii twelfth mainline entry, developed by Namco Tales Studio. The story follows Asbel Lhant from childhood through adulthood as he g…
13GAME
2011The 2011 PlayStation 3 thirteenth mainline entry, developed by Namco Tales Studio as the series' 15th anniversary title. Set in Rieze Maxia,…
14GAME
2012The 2012 PlayStation 3 fourteenth mainline entry and direct sequel to Tales of Xillia, developed by Bandai Namco Studios. Set one year after…
15GAME
2015The 2015 PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 fifteenth mainline entry, developed by Bandai Namco Studios as the 20th anniversary title. Sorey, a…
16GAME
2016The 2016 PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 sixteenth mainline entry, developed by Bandai Namco Studios. Velvet Crowe, whose once-warm life is…
17GAME
2021The 2021 multi-platform seventeenth mainline entry, developed by Bandai Namco Studios as a major visual and mechanical overhaul of the serie…