Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
Tokyo is in full lockdown, the government's swift, coldblooded response to a surprise demon invasion. Trapped within the sprawling metropolis is the city's helpless populace, forced to turn on each other in…
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Atlus, released 15 January 2009 on Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DS.
What Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor is
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Atlus and released in 2009. It is available on Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor is a 2009 tactical role-playing game developed and published by Atlus for the Nintendo DS. It is a spin-off within the wider Megami Tensei series. An expanded version subtitled Overclocked was released on the Nintendo 3DS in Japan and North America by Atlus in 2011, and in Europe by Ghostlight in 2013. Following a group of teenagers in Tokyo who are trapped inside a government lockdown following an invasion of demons, the gameplay is divided between story events tied to an in-game clock, and tactical grid-based combat with a turn-based battle system. Which events and battles are completed can unlock different endings.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Megami Tensei series
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor is the 89th of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. The next entry was Shin Megami Tensei: Persona in 2009. Its critic score of 90 is 10 points above the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Persona 5 at 94.
How it was received
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 23 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor launched on 15 January 2009, within three weeks of Demon's Souls, Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box, Skate 2 and Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Demon's Souls, Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box, Skate 2, Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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