Ace Attorney → 10 games · 2001–2017 · 4 storylines · 280h The ten mainline courtroom games across four sub-series. The crossover Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright and the mobile-only re-releases are excluded. Alan Wake / Remedy Connected Universe → 4 games · 2010–2023 · 49h The games Remedy has confirmed share a universe: Alan Wake, Alan Wake's American Nightmare, Control and Alan Wake 2. The co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak is set in the same building but carries no campaign and is excluded. Max Payne and Quantum Break are adjacent at most and are not listed. Amnesia → 4 games · 2010–2023 · 24h The four Amnesia games. The free Justine expansion is treated as part of The Dark Descent, and Frictional's Penumbra and SOMA games are excluded. Assassin’s Creed → 14 games · 2007–2025 · 6 storylines · 513h Mainline only. No Chronicles, no mobile entries, no Liberation or Freedom Cry standalones. Atelier → 14 games · 2009–2023 · 4 storylines · 490h The four modern Atelier sub-series that form self-contained storylines: Arland, Dusk, Mysterious and Secret. The older Salburg, Gramnad and Iris games, the Nelke spin-off and Atelier Resleriana are excluded. Baldur's Gate → 3 games · 1998–2023 · 200h The three mainline games, with Throne of Bhaal folded into the Baldur's Gate II row it expands. The interquel expansion Siege of Dragonspear, the Dark Alliance action spin-offs and Icewind Dale are excluded. Batman: Arkham → 4 games · 2009–2015 · 99h The four mainline Rocksteady and WB Montréal games. No Blackgate, Arkham VR, Shadow, or Suicide Squad. Bayonetta → 4 games · 2009–2023 · 48h The three numbered PlatinumGames action titles plus the prequel Bayonetta Origins. The Bayonetta: Bloody Fate anime film and crossover appearances in other games are excluded. BioShock → 3 games · 2007–2013 · 2 storylines · 35h The three mainline games and their story DLC; the unreleased next entry and the mobile port of the first game are excluded. Borderlands → 8 games · 2009–2025 · 170h The four numbered games, The Pre-Sequel, both Telltale-style adventure games and the Tiny Tina's Wonderlands spin-off; the mobile card game and the film are outside scope. Castlevania → 10 games · 1986–2008 · 2 storylines · 76h The story-load-bearing entries of the main Konami continuity, ordered by the in-universe year each is set. The Lords of Shadow reboot trilogy is a separate continuity and is excluded, as are Judgment, the mobile games and the several entries whose events later games ignore. Chrono → 3 games · 1995–1999 · 69h Chrono Trigger, the text adventure Radical Dreamers and Chrono Cross. There is nothing else in the series. Command & Conquer → 7 games · 1995–2010 · 2 storylines · 97h The Tiberium and Red Alert games and their expansions. Command & Conquer: Generals and its Zero Hour expansion are a separate continuity with no link to either saga, and the mobile titles Rivals and Tiberium Alliances are excluded. Crysis → 4 games · 2007–2013 · 32h The three mainline games and the Warhead expansion; the free-to-play spin-off Crysis Wars multiplayer and the browser game Warface are excluded. Danganronpa → 4 games · 2010–2017 · 120h The three main games plus the action spin-off Ultra Despair Girls. The board-game spin-off Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp and the anime series are excluded. Dark Souls → 3 games · 2011–2016 · 110h The three Dark Souls games and their expansions. Demon's Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro and Elden Ring are separate series by the same studio and are not part of this chronology. Darksiders → 4 games · 2010–2019 · 67h The four games: Darksiders, Darksiders II, Darksiders III and the prequel Darksiders Genesis. Each is listed in its current definitive version rather than its original release. Dead Island → 3 games · 2011–2023 · 48h The two Techland games and the 2023 sequel by Dambuster Studios. The third-person spin-off Escape Dead Island and the free-to-play Dead Island: Epidemic are excluded. Dead Rising → 6 games · 2006–2016 · 55h The four numbered games plus the two downloadable side stories, Case Zero and Case West. Dead Rising 2: Off the Record is excluded because it is an explicitly non-canon retelling of Dead Rising 2 with Frank West swapped in for Chuck Greene. Dead Space → 4 games · 2008–2013 · 45h The three numbered games plus the on-rails prequel Extraction. The mobile Dead Space, the browser game Ignition and the animated films are excluded. Death Stranding → 2 games · 2019–2025 · 75h The two Kojima Productions games: Death Stranding and Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. Mobile and Mac ports of the first game are the same content and are not listed separately. Destiny → 2 games · 2014–2017 · 27h The two games and their expansions; the mobile companion apps and the tabletop spin-offs are outside scope. Deus Ex → 5 games · 2000–2016 · 2 storylines · 90h The four main games plus the spin-off Deus Ex: The Fall; the Deus Ex Go mobile puzzle game and the VR spin-off Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - Breach are excluded. Devil May Cry → 5 games · 2001–2019 · 54h The five numbered Capcom games that share one continuity. DmC: Devil May Cry and its Vergil's Downfall DLC are a Ninja Theory reboot in a separate continuity and are not part of this order. Diablo → 5 games · 1996–2023 · 115h The four numbered games and Diablo Immortal, including their expansions; the cancelled Diablo III console spin-offs and the Hellfire expansion for the first game are excluded. Dino Crisis → 3 games · 1999–2003 · 22h The three Capcom games. The light-gun spin-off Dino Stalker and the Gun Survivor series it belongs to are excluded. Dishonored → 5 games · 2012–2017 · 40h Both mainline games, the two Daud story expansions, and the standalone Death of the Outsider; the combat-only Dunwall City Trials DLC is excluded. Divinity → 4 games · 2002–2017 · 185h The four story-relevant Larian RPGs set on Rivellon. Beyond Divinity, the Dragon Commander strategy game and the Divinity: Original Sin board game are excluded. Doom → 7 games · 1993–2025 · 2 storylines · 66h The classic id Software games and the modern Slayer trilogy; Doom 3 is excluded because it is a separate reboot continuity, as are the mobile and RPG spin-offs. Dragon Age → 4 games · 2009–2024 · 165h The four mainline BioWare RPGs. The tie-in novels, comics, the Dragon Age: Absolution series and the mobile spin-off Dragon Age Legends are excluded. Dragon Quest → 9 games · 1986–2017 · 3 storylines · 342h The single-player numbered entries that sit in a shared timeline or stand alone as mainline games. The MMO Dragon Quest X, the Monsters, Builders, Heroes and Treasures spin-offs, and Dragon Quest VII are excluded — VII has no continuity link to the others and no current English release outside the 3DS version. Dying Light → 3 games · 2015–2022 · 50h Both main games plus The Following, the campaign-length expansion for the first. The cancelled battle royale spin-off Dying Light: Bad Blood is excluded. F.E.A.R. → 3 games · 2005–2011 · 25h The three mainline games; the TimeGate expansions Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate are excluded because Monolith wrote F.E.A.R. 2 as if they had not happened. Fallout → 7 games · 1997–2018 · 2 storylines · 180h The mainline RPGs, Fallout Tactics and Fallout 76; the non-canon console spin-off Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel and the mobile game Fallout Shelter are excluded. Far Cry → 7 games · 2012–2021 · 105h The modern entries with any thread between them: Far Cry 3, Blood Dragon, Far Cry 4, Primal, Far Cry 5, New Dawn and Far Cry 6. Far Cry 1 and 2 are unrelated one-offs from before the series settled into this shape and are excluded, as are the Far Cry Instincts console spin-offs. Fatal Frame → 5 games · 2001–2014 · 54h The five main games, known as Project Zero in Europe. The 3DS spin-off Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir and the Wii U free-to-start Haunted House are excluded. Final Fantasy → 10 games · 1991–2013 · 4 storylines · 343h Only the Final Fantasy games that genuinely share a continuity with another Final Fantasy game: the Ivalice titles, the Spira duology, the Fabula Nova Crystallis trilogy, and Final Fantasy IV with its sequel. The self-contained mainline entries (I, II, III, V, VI, IX, XI, XIV, XV, XVI) and the Tactics Advance games, which are set in a separate dream Ivalice, are excluded. Final Fantasy VII → 5 games · 1997–2024 · 143h The Compilation of Final Fantasy VII: the 1997 original, its prequel Crisis Core, the sequel Dirge of Cerberus, and the Remake trilogy; the mobile titles Before Crisis and Ever Crisis are excluded, as is the film Advent Children, which is not a game. Fire Emblem → 10 games · 1996–2022 · 5 storylines · 345h The five continents where Fire Emblem tells a story across more than one game: Archanea, Jugdral, Elibe, Tellius and Fodlan. The standalone entries — Sacred Stones, Awakening, Fates, Engage and Echoes: Shadows of Valentia — are excluded, as are the Warriors and Heroes spin-offs, except where Fodlan's own musou entry belongs to its arc. Five Nights at Freddy's → 8 games · 2014–2021 · 39h The eight entries that carry the main story. Ultimate Custom Night, the AR and mobile spin-offs, the Help Wanted 2 follow-up, the FNaF World RPG and the novels are excluded. Front Mission → 5 games · 1995–2005 · 205h The five numbered strategy entries, which share one continuity built around Huffman Island and the wanzer arms industry. The third-person shooter Front Mission Evolved, the PSP spin-off Front Mission Alternative and the online games are excluded. Gears of War → 7 games · 2006–2020 · 2 storylines · 83h The six numbered and named campaigns plus the turn-based prequel Gears Tactics; the mobile spin-off Gears Pop is excluded. Ghost of Tsushima → 2 games · 2020–2025 · 50h The two Sucker Punch games, Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yotei. The co-op mode Ghost of Tsushima: Legends is a separate mythological side mode and is not treated as part of the story. God of War → 9 games · 2005–2023 · 2 storylines · 131h Greek saga through Norse saga, handhelds included. Betrayal (2007, mobile) is excluded. Golden Sun → 3 games · 2001–2010 · 85h All three Golden Sun games. There are no spin-offs and nothing has been released since 2010. Gothic → 3 games · 2001–2006 · 105h The three Piranha Bytes games about the Nameless Hero, with Night of the Raven folded into the Gothic II row. The unrelated Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods and Arcania: Gothic 4, made by other studios, are excluded. Grand Theft Auto → 9 games · 2001–2026 · 2 storylines · 168h The 3D-era games from GTA III through Vice City Stories and the HD-era games from GTA IV onward. The top-down originals GTA 1, GTA 2 and their London expansions are a third, unconnected continuity and are excluded, as are the handheld spin-offs GTA Advance and Chinatown Wars. Hades → 2 games · 2020–2024 · 55h The two Supergiant roguelikes: Hades and Hades II. Supergiant's unrelated earlier games are not part of this. Half-Life → 7 games · 1998–2020 · 2 storylines · 61h Mainline plus the two Gearbox expansions and Alyx. Black Mesa is a fan remake and is not counted here. Halo → 8 games · 2001–2021 · 2 storylines · 90h Mainline plus Reach and ODST. No Halo Wars, no Spartan Assault, no multiplayer-only releases. Hitman → 8 games · 2000–2021 · 2 storylines · 84h The eight mainline Agent 47 games across both eras. The Hitman GO mobile puzzle game and the Hitman Sniper spin-offs are excluded. Hollow Knight → 2 games · 2017–2025 · 55h The two Team Cherry games: Hollow Knight, including its four free content packs, and Hollow Knight: Silksong. Horizon → 4 games · 2017–2023 · 116h Zero Dawn and Forbidden West, both expansions included. Lego Horizon Adventures and Call of the Mountain (VR) are out of scope. inFAMOUS → 5 games · 2009–2014 · 2 storylines · 43h The five Sucker Punch releases: inFAMOUS, inFAMOUS 2, the standalone side story Festival of Blood, inFAMOUS: Second Son and its standalone prequel First Light. The Vita card game inFAMOUS: Paper Trail companion content is excluded. Jak and Daxter → 4 games · 2001–2005 · 47h The four Naughty Dog games: The Precursor Legacy, Jak II, Jak 3 and Jak X: Combat Racing. The handheld spin-offs Daxter and The Lost Frontier, made by other studios, are excluded. Judgment → 2 games · 2018–2021 · 55h Both Judgment games, the detective series RGG Studio set in the same Kamurocho as Yakuza. The Kaito Files, a story expansion for Lost Judgment, is covered as an edition rather than a separate entry. Killzone → 6 games · 2004–2013 · 47h The six single-player Killzone releases: Killzone, Liberation, Killzone 2, Killzone 3, Mercenary and Shadow Fall. Killzone: Intercept and other tie-in fiction are excluded. Kingdom Come: Deliverance → 2 games · 2018–2025 · 95h Both Warhorse RPGs following Henry of Skalitz in early 15th-century Bohemia. The mobile card game and tie-in tabletop material are excluded. Kingdom Hearts → 10 games · 2002–2019 · 170h The Dark Seeker saga, from Union χ through Kingdom Hearts III, including the DS and 3DS side entries that the HD collections absorbed. Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory, a rhythm spin-off, and the mobile-only Dark Road are excluded. Life is Strange → 5 games · 2015–2024 · 50h The five full-length games in the series. The free short The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit and the mobile-only Life is Strange: Wavelengths standalone listing are excluded; Wavelengths is treated as True Colors DLC.
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