Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner (1995) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner

This is the original 1995 Devil Summoner game on the Sega Saturn and was released only in Japan. It was later ported to PSP in 2005. Abandoning the post-apocalyptic themes of the original series, the story…

75 25 December 1995

What Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner is

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Atlus and released in 1995. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Sega Saturn.

The premise, in the publisher's words

This is the original 1995 Devil Summoner game on the Sega Saturn and was released only in Japan. It was later ported to PSP in 2005. Abandoning the post-apocalyptic themes of the original series, the story takes place in modern Japan. The player character is an unnamed college student who is attacked by demons along with his girlfriend; they are saved by the timely appearance of a suave demon-hunter named Kyouji. Shortly thereafter, Kyouji is found dead under suspicious circumstances. The protagonist is then trapped inside of a warehouse and murdered by a deranged killer named Sid. Rather than stay dead, the player finds himself in the reanimated body of the slain Kyouji, and escapes from…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Megami Tensei series

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner is the 21st of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. The next entry was Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner - Akuma Zensho in 1996. Its critic score of 75 is 5 points below the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Persona 5 at 94.

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How it was received

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 46% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 9 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner launched on 25 December 1995, within three weeks of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters and Tales of Phantasia. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters, Tales of Phantasia.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer