Persona games

Order these Persona games by the year each was first released anywhere. You place all 23 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How to play the Persona games timeline game

Each card is a Persona game, whether a numbered RPG, an enhanced re-release, a fighter, a rhythm spin-off or a dungeon crawler. The platform is printed under the title, sometimes with a note about the developer or what the release adds. You place them by the year each first came out anywhere. Start from the one game already down, year showing, and work out where each new card goes. Find the right gap and its year is yours to see. A wrong gap still parks the game in its real spot, but one of your three lives goes with it.

The numbered games come with long waits between them, and the gaps fill up with remakes, expanded editions and spin-offs that carry an older game's name. That is the main trap: a card with an earlier number may be a later remake or a dancing game. The platform helps, because each generation of hardware has its own set of releases. The recent end is busy, with tactics games, remakes and mobile entries all close together.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 23 of the 23 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Revelations: Persona PlayStation
  • Persona 2: Innocent Sin PlayStation, Japan only
  • Persona 2: Eternal Punishment PlayStation
  • Persona 3 PlayStation 2
  • Persona 3 FES PlayStation 2, adds The Answer chapter
  • Persona 4 PlayStation 2
  • Persona 3 Portable PlayStation Portable
  • Shin Megami Tensei: Persona PSP remaster of Revelations: Persona
  • Persona 2: Innocent Sin (PSP) PlayStation Portable remake
  • Persona 4 Golden PlayStation Vita
  • Persona 4 Arena Arc System Works fighter, arcades
  • Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Arc System Works fighter, arcades
  • Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Nintendo 3DS dungeon crawler
  • Persona 4: Dancing All Night PlayStation Vita rhythm game
  • Persona 5 PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4
  • Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight PlayStation 4 and Vita rhythm game
  • Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight PlayStation 4 and Vita rhythm game
  • Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth Nintendo 3DS dungeon crawler
  • Persona 5 Royal PlayStation 4
  • Persona 5 Strikers Omega Force action game, Switch and PS4
  • Persona 5 Tactica Tactical RPG
  • Persona 3 Reload Full remake for PS5, Xbox and PC
  • Persona 5: The Phantom X Mobile and PC, Black Wings Game Studio

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