Career Soft
Subsidiary of Atlus | |
Industry | Video game |
Genre | Tactical role-playing |
Founded | June 1996 |
Headquarters | Japan |
Products |
Langrisser (1991–1998, 2015– ) Growlanser (1999–2011) Devil Survivor (2009– ) |
Parent | Atlus |
Career Soft is a Japanese video game development studio founded in June 1996 by Team Career, a team within the Masaya Games, which was formed to develop Langrisser and Langrisser II. Career Soft continued to work with Masaya Games for the development of Langrisser III, Langrisser IV and Langrisser V, before they went on to develop the Growlanser series together with the publisher Atlus in 1999. In October 2001, Atlus acquired Career Soft and became the sole publisher of their games.[1] In 2004, after the release of Growlanser IV, the majority of Career Soft's staff was merged into the main development team of Atlus, where they have worked on various titles including Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor series and Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE. In the meantime, Career Soft was forced to focus exclusively on video production.
In 2015, Career Soft developed again with the collaboration of Masaya Games a new Langrisser installment, titled Langrisser Re:Incarnation. The series had not seen a new title since Langrisser Millennium: The Last Century, whose release was 15 years back. The Langrisser franchise is known beside the Fire Emblem series and the Shining Force series for its innovation and for being one of the first tactical console role-playing game series.
Games
Following a complete gaming list of Career Soft and its predecessor Team Career
Note: Indented titles are remakes
- Elthlead series
- Elthlead (1987: PC-8801, MSX2)
- Gaia no Monshou (1987: PC-8801; 1988: PC Engine)
- Gaiflame (1988: PC-8801; 1990: PC Engine)
- Langrisser (1991: Mega Drive; 1993: PC Engine; 1997: PlayStation; 1998: Sega Saturn, Windows)
- Langrisser II (1994: Mega Drive)
- Der Langrisser (1995: Super Famicom, PC-FX; 1997: PlayStation; 1998: Sega Saturn, Windows)
- Langrisser III (1996: Sega Saturn; 1998: Windows; 2005: PlayStation 2)
- Langrisser IV (1997: Sega Saturn; 1999: PlayStation)
- Langrisser V: The End of Legend (1998: Sega Saturn; 1999: PlayStation)
- Langrisser Re:Incarnation (2015: Nintendo 3DS)
- Growlanser (1999: PlayStation; 2001: Windows; 2003: PlayStation 2)
- Growlanser II: The Sense of Justice (2001: PlayStation 2)
- Growlanser III: The Dual Darkness (2001: PlayStation 2)
- Growlanser IV: Wayfarer of the Time (2003: PlayStation 2)
- Growlanser IV: Over Reloaded / Growlanser: Wayfarer of Time (2011: PlayStation Portable)
- Growlanser IV: Wayfarer of the Time - Return (2005: PlayStation 2)
- Growlanser V: Generations / Growlanser: Heritage of War (2006: PlayStation 2)
- Growlanser VI: Precarious World (2007: PlayStation 2)
- Megami Ibunroku: Devil Survivor / Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor (2009: Nintendo DS)
- Devil Survivor: Over Clock / Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked (2011: Nintendo 3DS)
- Devil Survivor 2 / Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 (2011: Nintendo DS)
- Devil Survivor 2: Break Record / Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker (2015: Nintendo 3DS)
- Other games
- Macross: Eternal Love Song (1992: PC Engine)
- Major contributions
- Sorcer Kingdom / Sorcerer's Kingdom (1992: Mega Drive)
- Gen'ei Ibun Roku ♯FE / Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE (2015: Wii U)
References
- ↑ "Atlus Acquires Career Soft". Retrieved 2012-03-20.