Xenogears

Xenogears Blends Authentic RPG Gameplay with Exquisite Hand-Drawn and Computer-Generated Animation in a Grand Science Fiction Tale. An intricate storyline involving many human and non-human characters will…

90 11 February 1998

Role-playing (RPG) Fantasy Science fiction

Xenogears is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Square Product Development Division 3, released 11 February 1998 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation. The main story takes about 56.5 hrs to finish.

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What Xenogears is

Xenogears is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Square Product Development Division 3 and released in 1998. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Full Story, spoils everything: "In the beginning, Deus was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. The creation of an unknown spacefaring civilization, Deus was originally intended to serve as a biological weapon. To power Deus, an entity known as the Wave Existance is summoned from another dimension and trapped inside Deus's engine, Zohar. However, its creators deem Deus too powerful to use, and they attempt to dispose of it by shipping it away on a spaceship called the Eldridge. Deus, being a sentient organism, discovers the plan to eliminate it and attacks the Eldridge in transit. After much gratuitous usage of the word "evacuate"…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Xeno series

Xenogears is the first of 35 entries we hold in the Xeno series. The next entry was Xenosaga Episode 1: Der Wille zur Macht Limited Edition in 2002. Its critic score of 90 is 3 points above the series average of 87. The highest-rated entry is Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition at 100.

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How it was received

Xenogears holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 1998 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 89, across 127 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 56.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 85 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Xenogears launched on 11 February 1998, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2 (1998), Resident Evil 2, Sega Rally 2 and 1080° Snowboarding. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2 (1998), Resident Evil 2, Sega Rally 2, 1080° Snowboarding.

Cheats and codes

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