Arc the Lad Collection is a 2002 video game compilation developed and published by Working Designs.

It is the first English release of Sony Computer Entertainment's Arc the Lad RPGs for the PlayStation.

Arc the Lad II (1996) introduces Elc, a young Hunter that becomes tangled in the plot and eventually joins the battle against the Dark One.

Arc the Lad III (1999) features Alec, a young Hunter with a mysterious past.

Arc the Lad II features a much larger and less linear world than its predecessor, and it brings back the cast of the first game in addition to having a new group of characters.

Arc the Lad III features an upgraded graphics system, replacing the sprite backdrops of the first two games with three-dimensional backgrounds.

Each character or enemy is assigned agility points which determines their turn order in battle.

Arc the Lad II boosts the gameplay by including a revamped weapon system.

For example, Shu can equip battle shoes or fire arms such as assault rifles and shotguns.

Lieza, one of the principal characters in Arc the Lad II, can also tame monsters, which can sometimes use human equipment.

Recipes must be found by the players, unlike in Arc the Lad II where the shop would tell them exactly what to use.

Cities and dungeons also allow the player to freely explore, though some battle maps are only for combat, and nothing else.

[3] This was the first time North American gamers were able to play the then-popular Japanese exclusive series.

The collection also features the documentary disc Making of Arc the Lad, which includes exclusive interviews with Victor Ireland, then-president of Working Designs.

[18] Arc the Lad Collection garnered positive reviews from critics, with aggregate scores of 81% on GameRankings[4] and 78 out of 100 on Metacritic.

[5] Critics were quick to point out the "typical" Working Designs packaging of the series.

David Smith of IGN gave the extras included with the games "two thumbs up" and wrote that the "collection does a particularly good job of accenting one of the more unusual aspects of Arc the Lad as a series, which is its continuity.