

Released in late 2025 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the franchise, Ghost in the Shell is a homebrew project for the Game Boy Color, made by avalentine1996, that serves as an aesthetic homage to the 1995 film and the technical era of the late 90s. Structured primarily as an 8-bit visual novel, the game translates the narrative of the series into a portable format, utilizing detailed pixel-art cutscenes and extensive dialogue. While the core experience focuses on exploration and investigation, the gameplay is diversified through the inclusion of arcade shooting and driving sequences, providing a kinetic counterpoint to the narrative segments. The narrative center of the experience focuses on the classic cyberpunk tenets of identity and systemic corruption within the Section 9 universe. It emphasizes player agency through a branching structure that offers five distinct endings, encouraging multiple playthroughs to uncover the full scope of the story.

Adventure / Visual Novel / Science fiction / Survival
Steins;Gate is a Japanese visual novel developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus. It is the second game in the Science Adventure series following Chaos;Head. The game is described by the development team as a "hypothetical science ADV" and explores time and time travel in 2010 Akihabara. The gameplay follows non-linear plot lines which offer branching scenarios with courses of interaction.

Adventure / Visual Novel / Science fiction / Comedy
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel, also known as Neon Genesis Evangelion: Iron Maiden, is a video game based on the Gainax anime/manga series Neon Genesis Evangelion, released officially only in Japan for the PlayStation, Sega Saturn, PlayStation 2, PSP, Windows (PC), and Macintosh. On January 20, 2005 a sequel was released titled "Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel 2nd" for the Playstation 2, and while it does feature much of the cast of the original game, the story is unrelated to the original's.

Real Time Strategy (RTS) / Role-playing (RPG) / Simulator / Action / Science fiction
Infinite Space, a role playing game exclusively for the Nintendo DS portable handheld system, takes place in outer space and gives players the ability to control, build, outfit and customize more than 150 spaceships. Infinite Space stretches the DS hardware to the limit, offering over 200 characters and the ability to control multiple spaceships at any one time. Releasing in 2009 and currently being produced by Atsushi Inaba and directed by Hifumi Kouno (from developer Nude Maker), Infinite Space is one of the most complex RPG titles developed for the DS to date, and shows PlatinumGames commitment to teaming up with the most creative minds in gaming.

Adventure / Visual Novel / Science fiction
Akira is a 1988 adventure video game by TOSE for the Family Computer console exclusively in Japan. It is based on Akira, the 1988 animated film version of Katsuhiro Otomo's manga of the same name.

Point-and-click / Adventure / Visual Novel / Science fiction / Mystery
Bubblegum Crash is a PC Engine graphic adventure game based on the anime OVA series of the same name. The anime/game is set in the near future of 2032, which has seen Tokyo split into two by a massive earthquake. Corporations rule the country, production-line humanoid robots named "boomers" are being used by villains to commit crimes, and the beleaguered police are too under-budgeted and incompetent to handle it all. The all-female mercenary team the Knight Sabers, who use powerful exosuits called "Hard Suits", are the city's best defense. The game operates similarly to other adventure games of the era. The player is given a selection of commands that they can use to interact with the world, including talking to NPCs, picking up and using objects in their inventory and moving to other areas. At any time the player can look and listen for extra context clues. The commands are in English, but the game's story and dialogue text is entirely Japanese. The game will occasionally switch protagonists, starting with Nene Romanova and moving to Priss, Linna and Sylia at various points.

Point-and-click / Visual Novel / Science fiction / Drama
An interactive comic game based on the series in which the player can make advance the comic story clicking in it. The gameplay is that the player has to solve some puzzles or click with the pointer in a comic book scene to advance to the next scene.

Fighting / Visual Novel / Action / Science fiction
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Gears of Destiny is the sequel to Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Battle of Aces.

Point-and-click / Visual Novel / Science fiction / Drama
An interactive comic game based on the series in which the player can make advance the comic story clicking in it. The gameplay is that the player has to solve some puzzles or click with the pointer in a comic book scene to advance to the next scene. This game continues the story of the first game in the series.