| Shiren the Wanderer | |
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| Genre(s) | Role-playing, roguelike |
| Developer(s) | Spike Chunsoft (formerly Chunsoft) |
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| Creator(s) | Koichi Nakamura |
| Artist(s) | Kaoru Hasegawa |
| Writer(s) | Shin-ichiro Tomie Masato Kato |
| Composer(s) | Koichi Sugiyama Hayato Matsuo Keisuke Ito |
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| First release | Mystery Dungeon 2: Shiren the Wanderer December 1, 1995 |
| Latest release | Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island January 25, 2024 |
| Parent series | Mystery Dungeon |
| Spin-offs | Shiren Monsters |
Shiren the Wanderer[1] is a video game series of roguelike and role-playing games developed by Spike Chunsoft (formerly Chunsoft). Unlike licensed crossovers within the Mystery Dungeon franchise, this series features original characters, including the eponymous rōnin protagonist Shiren and his traveling companion and talking weasel Koppa, with a plot and the location set generally in feudal Japan, and though indicative of the core games, which is navigating through a randomly generated dungeon using turn-based moves. As of January 2024, there have been multiple games across Nintendo and Sony platforms, mobile devices, Windows, and Steam, as well as few other medias released throughout the years.
These games are based on procedural generated dungeons ("mystery dungeons"), which are dungeons with unique corridors and rooms for each floors every time the player enters in one. In dungeons, they have to fight monsters while collecting items to survive throughout the adventure, whether to protect against stronger foes, avoid unseen traps and hazards, or avoid starving, with the goal of exiting the dungeon after a fixed number of floors.