11 Facts About Mystery Dungeon

Mystery Dungeon, known in Japan as Fushigi no Dungeon, is a series of roguelike role-playing video games.

Mystery Dungeon games are among the few console games in the roguelike genre.

Chunsoft has started several lines of branded Mystery Dungeon games, starting with one features the Chocobo from SquareSoft's Final Fantasy series in 1997, then Bandai's Gundam, Konami's TwinBee and Namco's Tower of Druaga series in 2004, Game Freak's Pokemon series in 2005, and Atlus's Etrian Odyssey series in 2015.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is part of the franchise since 2005 and serves as a crossover between Pokemon and Mystery Dungeon.

Nakamura explained that the appeal of the Mystery Dungeon series is that every game is different and that players skills are constantly being challenged, which helps the player feel deeply involved.

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Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon series is fully developed and published by Square Enix, then SquareSoft before the merging with Enix.

Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon would become the first title to be released in the Chocobo sub-series, while Chocobo's Dungeon 2 became the first Mystery Dungeon title to be released outside of Japan.

Etrian Mystery Dungeon would includes arranged music from previous Etrian Odyssey games.

Joe Down Studio developed the music for Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon and featured extensive remixing of music from various Final Fantasy games due to the positive reception of remixed Final Fantasy music in the game Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales, and requested that they be allowed to use music from the early Final Fantasy titles as it would be appropriate to the theme of forgotten time.

The massively multiplayer online role playing game Final Fantasy XIV added a randomly-generated Deep Mystery Dungeon that was inspired by the procedural generation of roguelikes.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series is known to have high sale rates among the franchise, surpassing one million copies for most of its games, and more than two million for titles like Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team, and Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky alone.