Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux

The remake of the Nintendo DS game Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey with new additions, including a new story character. "A spatial distortion full of demons appeared in Antarctica, threatening to engulf…

78 26 October 2017

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Strategy Action Fantasy Science fiction

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux is an adventure developed by Atlus, released 26 October 2017 on Nintendo 3DS.

Verified 18 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux is

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux is an adventure game developed by Atlus and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is a role-playing video game developed by Atlus and Lancarse for the Nintendo DS. The game is a spin-off in the Shin Megami Tensei series, which forms the core of the Megami Tensei franchise. It was released in Japan in 2009, and in North America in 2010. The story follows a special task force sent by the United Nations to investigate the Schwarzwelt, a spatial distortion that appears in Antarctica and threatens to engulf the world. Players take control of an unnamed protagonist, navigating the environments of the Schwarzwelt in first-person. Combat involves the player and recruited demons fighting against various enemies, with the protagonist having the…

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How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Megami Tensei series

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux is the 122nd of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. The next entry was Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2 in 2018. Its critic score of 78 is 2 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: Strange Journey Redux holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 7 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

A full completion run takes around 90.7 hrs.

What it launched against

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux launched on 26 October 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins and South Park: The Fractured But Whole. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins, South Park: The Fractured But Whole.

Cheats and codes

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