Persona 4

An entry in the JRPG/visual novel hybrid Persona series in which the player has to harness the power of Personas and fight entities called Shadows by forging bonds with the locals of Inaba, a rural Japanese…

93 10 July 2008

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Comedy Drama Fantasy Open world

Persona 4 is an adventure developed by Atlus, released 10 July 2008 on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2. The main story takes about 91.2 hrs to finish.

Verified 15 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Persona 4 is

Persona 4 is an adventure game developed by Atlus and released in 2008. It is available on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2. It runs on RenderWare.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A city teenager arrives in the sleepy rural town of Inaba to live with relatives for a year while his parents work abroad. His quiet new life is upended when a string of bizarre, unexplained murders grips the town, the victims found hanging in impossible ways amid a creeping fog. A local rumor claims that gazing into a switched-off television on a rainy midnight reveals a hidden face, and when the protagonist and his new schoolmates investigate, they are pulled into a strange, fog-shrouded realm that exists inside the TV. There they meet a curious creature and awaken to the power of Persona, manifestations of their inner selves. Realizing the murders are tied to this eerie other world, the…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are comedy, drama, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Megami Tensei series

Persona 4 is the 83rd of 151 entries we hold in the Megami Tensei series. The next entry was Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers New Generation in 2008. Its critic score of 93 is 13 points above the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Persona 5 at 94.

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How it was received

Persona 4 holds a critic score of 93 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 28 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 91, across 284 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 91.2 hrs.

What it launched against

Persona 4 launched on 10 July 2008, within three weeks of Street Fighter IV, Battlefield: Bad Company, Rhythm Heaven and SoulCalibur IV. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Street Fighter IV, Battlefield: Bad Company, Rhythm Heaven, SoulCalibur IV.

Cheats and codes

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