Suikoden (1995)
Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo
PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation · PlayStation 3 · PlayStation Portable · Sega Saturn
4.04 from 472 ratings
1186 members have it in their collection · 39 playing now · 427 backlogged · 314 wish listed
How long? Main story 20h · with extras 23h · 100% 25h (from 18 logged playthroughs)
Suikoden is a Japanese-style role-playing game with several unusual additions. There are three kinds of combat in the game, the most common one being the traditional turn-based party combat (players can have up to six people in their active party). Magic runes can be equipped on the player's characters which allow limited usage of offensive and healing spells. There are …
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Suikoden is a Japanese-style role-playing game with several unusual additions. There are three kinds of combat in the game, the most common one being the traditional turn-based party combat (players can have up to six people in their active party). Magic runes can be equipped on the player's characters which allow limited usage of offensive and healing spells. There are also a few army battles, where the player must control whole units of fighters, archers, magicians, etc., and one-on-one fights (duels).
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Details
- Developers
- Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo
- Publishers
- Konami, Sony Computer Entertainment
- Genres
- Adventure, Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS)
- Themes
- Fantasy
- Franchises
- Suikoden
- Series
- Suikoden
- Event
- PlayStation Experience 2014 Keynote
Release dates
- Dec 15, 1995 (Full Release) (Japan) PlayStation
- Dec 23, 1996 (Full Release) (North_America) PlayStation
- Mar 14, 1997 (Full Release) (Europe) PlayStation
- Sep 17, 1997 (Full Release) (Japan) Sega Saturn
- 1997 (Full Release) (Australia) PlayStation
- Mar 26, 1998 (Full Release) (Japan) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- 1998 (Full Release) (China) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Apr 1999 (Full Release) (Korea) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Dec 23, 2008 (Digital Compatibility Release) (North_America) PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable
- Dec 23, 2008 (Digital Compatibility Release) (Australia) PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable
- Dec 23, 2008 (Digital Compatibility Release) (Europe) PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable
Also available on
- Suikoden I HD Remaster: Gate Rune War (2025) · NSW, Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PS4, PS5, XONE, XSX
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Rating distribution
5 stars
155
4 stars
203
3 stars
92
2 stars
20
1 star
2
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status nevespgabriel Feb 8, 2024
Played a lot on the last days. Really impressed with the recruitment system, such a great mechanic. SPOILER: I think it was poorly developed the way that the protagonist turns out to be the leader of the Liberation Army. One minute he met Odessa, who's declared enemy of the institution that his friends and family are part of, and after …
Played a lot on the last days. Really impressed with the recruitment system, such a great mechanic. SPOILER: I think it was poorly developed the way that the protagonist turns out to be the leader of the Liberation Army. One minute he met Odessa, who's declared enemy of the institution that his friends and family are part of, and after a little mission and an imperial attack she dies and gives him the comand, instead of giving to all the other members that are much more trustable and qualified. Can't leave it aside the fact the bad attitudes of the empire and the comotion of the protagonist with those, but still his father is a member of the empire, they can do whatever they want with him, and the protagonist didn't think about it? Anyway, despite of this, the rest was so good. I'm really excited with this game. The way the castle is changing while I recruit the characters is awesome. I'm so undecided on who to select to my party. Didn't like to play with some characters, like Yam Koo, Luc and Maas (such a weakling). In the part I am, just recruited Lepant and liked his style.
Please reccomend some characters for me to put on my party.
Status nevespgabriel Feb 6, 2024
Started today! Liked the characters, the style and the beggining of the story that I went through. I'm excited to see more. SPOILER: poor Ted, hope he don't die. Didn't expect Pahm's betrayal.
Status RxBrad Aug 15, 2022
Casually playing Suikoden on and off. This game has been mostly a turn-my-brain-off cakewalk, up until this Neclord butthole I've been stuck on for a couple weeks.
I finally beat him tonight, then died trying to get to a Save point because I only had 2 dudes barely alive with no healing items.
Dang it.
Status Balmora May 17, 2022
This is the first game in years, probably since mass effect 2, that I went to work today and all I could think about was what happened in the story. What a great build up and story telling. The part I finished last night was;
This is the first game in years, probably since mass effect 2, that I went to work today and all I could think about was what happened in the story. What a great build up and story telling. The part I finished last night was;
Awesome game, can't wait to see the end, even though I'm taking my time.
Status WerqKween May 14, 2021
I'm staring down an embarrassment of riches in the PSX RPG library laid before me. Sooooo, what the hell, let's (re)play Suikoden next. I already 100% this back in the day
Status internpepper Nov 14, 2020
This is certainly a unique RPG letting you recruit 108 characters to your army/castle. The story is pretty standard, but this is the start of an amazing series. Gremio is awesome.
Status fireflys_locket Sep 10, 2017
Part of my quest to play some older RPGs that I missed. I really enjoyed it, and I hope to enjoy the second game even more.