Persona 5 Royal
Persona 5 Royal is an enhanced version of the turn-based role-playing game Persona 5, set in modern-day Tokyo. Players control a high school student who leads a group of secret vigilantes called the Phantom…
Persona 5 Royal is an adventure developed by P Studio, released 31 October 2019 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Persona 5 Royal is
Persona 5 Royal is an adventure game developed by P Studio and released in 2019. It was published by Atlus. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Gamebryo.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A high school student arrives in Tokyo after being put on probation for a crime he did not commit. Forced to transfer to Shujin Academy and live under the watch of a family friend, he discovers a hidden world called the Metaverse, where the distorted desires of corrupt adults manifest as physical realms. Together with a group of fellow outcasts who share his ability to awaken Personas, manifestations of their inner selves, he forms the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. Operating under the codename Joker, the protagonist leads his team into the Palaces of those who abuse their power, stealing the source of their corruption and forcing them to confess their crimes. As the Phantom Thieves' notoriety…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are comedy, drama, fantasy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 53 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Megami Tensei series
Persona 5 Royal is the 131st of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. It arrived 6 months after Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Challenger Pack 1. The next entry was Persona 5 Royal: Limited Edition in 2019. Its critic score of 94 is 14 points above the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Persona 5 at 94.
How it was received
Persona 5 Royal holds a critic score of 94 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 25 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 94, across 680 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i7-4790, 3.4 GHz | AMD Ryzen 5 1500X, 3.5 GHz, 8 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 2 GB | AMD Radeon R7 360, 2 GB. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 41GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Persona 5 Royal launched on 31 October 2019, within three weeks of Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds and Disco Elysium. It reviewed better than all of them. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Persona 5 Royal yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Dlc
Persona 5 Royal: P5D Costume & BGM Set
Persona 5 Royal: Persona Q2 Costume & BGM Special Set
Persona 5 Royal: Velvet Room Costume & BGM Set
Persona 5 Royal: P5D Featherman Costume & BGM Set
Persona 5 Royal: Tracksuit Costume Set
Persona 5 Royal: SMT Strange Journey Redux Costume & BGM Set
Persona 5 Royal: Battle Bundle
Persona 5 Royal: Kasumi Costume Bundle
Persona 5 Royal: Persona Bundle
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