Career Soft

Career Soft

Type	Subsidiary of Atlus
Industry	Video game
Genre	Tactical role-playing
Founded	June 1996
Headquarters	Japan
Products	Langrisser (1991–1998, 2015– ) Growlanser (1999–2011) Devil Survivor (2009– )
Parent	Atlus

Career Soft is a Japanese video game development studio founded in June 1996 by Team Career, a team within the Masaya Games, which was formed to develop Langrisser and Langrisser II. Career Soft continued to work with Masaya Games for the development of Langrisser III, Langrisser IV and Langrisser V, before they went on to develop the Growlanser series together with the publisher Atlus in 1999. In October 2001, Atlus acquired Career Soft and became the sole publisher of their games. In 2004, after the release of Growlanser IV, the majority of Career Soft's staff was merged into the main development team of Atlus, where they have worked on various titles including Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor series and Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem. In the meantime, Career Soft was forced to focus exclusively on video production.

In 2015, Career Soft developed again with the collaboration of Masaya Games a new Langrisser installment, titled Langrisser Re:Incarnation. The series had not seen a new title since Langrisser Millennium: The Last Century, whose release was 15 years back. The Langrisser franchise is known beside the Fire Emblem series and the Shining Force series for its innovation and for being one of the first tactical console role-playing game series.

Games

Following a complete gaming list of Career Soft and its predecessor Team Career

Note: Indented titles are remakes

Elthlead series

• Elthlead (1987: PC-8801, MSX2)
• Gaia no Monshou (1987: PC-8801; 1988: PC Engine)
• Gaiflame (1987: PC-8801; 1990: PC Engine)

Langrisser series

• Langrisser (1991: Mega Drive; 1993: PC Engine; 1997: PlayStation; 1998: Sega Saturn, Windows)
  • Warsong (English version of Langrisser released for the Genesis)
• Langrisser II (1994: Mega Drive)
  • Der Langrisser (1995: Super Famicom, PC-FX; 1997: PlayStation; 1998: Sega Saturn, Windows)
• Langrisser III (1996: Sega Saturn; 1998: Windows; 2005: PlayStation 2)
• Langrisser IV (1997: Sega Saturn; 1999: PlayStation)
• Langrisser V: The End of Legend (1998: Sega Saturn; 1999: PlayStation)
• Langrisser Re:Incarnation (2015: Nintendo 3DS)

Growlanser series

• Growlanser (1999: PlayStation; 2001: Windows; 2003: PlayStation 2)
  • Growlanser (remake) (2009: PlayStation Portable)
• Growlanser II: The Sense of Justice (2001: PlayStation 2)
• Growlanser III: The Dual Darkness (2001: PlayStation 2)
• Growlanser IV: Wayfarer of the Time (2003: PlayStation 2)
  • Growlanser IV: Over Reloaded / Growlanser: Wayfarer of Time (2011: PlayStation Portable)
• Growlanser IV: Wayfarer of the Time - Return (2005: PlayStation 2)
• Growlanser V: Generations / Growlanser: Heritage of War (2006: PlayStation 2)
• Growlanser VI: Precarious World (2007: PlayStation 2)

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor series

• Devil Survivor (2009: Nintendo DS)
  • Devil Survivor: Overclocked (2011: Nintendo 3DS)
• Devil Survivor 2 (2011: Nintendo DS)
  • Devil Survivor 2: Break Record / Record Breaker (2015: Nintendo 3DS)

Other games

• Macross: Eternal Love Song (1992: PC Engine)

Major contributions

• Sorcer Kingdom / Sorcerer's Kingdom (1992: Mega Drive)
• Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem (2015: Wii U)