Like Persona 5 Royal, but shorter

The Persona team's other game. Days in a bar untangling your love life, nights climbing a collapsing tower of blocks.

Keeps

The day and night split, the bar-stool conversations and Atlus at its most stylish.

Drops

The party, the dungeons and the school year.

The Phantom Thieves in a turn-based tactics game. Smaller and lighter, with the same jazz in the menus.

Keeps

The cast, the art direction and fights you plan a turn at a time.

Drops

The calendar, confidants and school days.

Shibuya, a seven-day deadline and a soundtrack that sounds like the city. Persona's style without the school timetable.

Keeps

Street fashion, a ticking calendar and a cast you get to know day by day.

Drops

Turn-based combat. Fights are frantic and in real time.

Fifteen students locked in a school by a bear who wants them to murder each other. Free time with classmates, then a trial.

Keeps

School days, free time spent getting to know classmates and a loud sense of style.

Drops

Dungeons. The trials are arguments, not fights.

Thirteen teenagers, giant robots and one story told from thirteen sides. It clicks together late, and loudly.

Keeps

A big teenage cast with secrets, and a mystery that pays off.

Drops

The life sim. Battles live in a separate tactics mode.

A sequel set the summer after Persona 5, as a road trip across Japan. Same thieves, quicker fights.

Keeps

The cast, the Metaverse heists and the music.

Drops

School and the calendar. Fights are in real time.

Atlus and Fire Emblem take on Tokyo's idol industry. Brighter than Persona, with a battle system every bit as good.

Keeps

Turn-based fights built on weaknesses, Tokyo after school and a side story for each friend.

Drops

The calendar, and the darker edges.