The franchise has been developed by Career Soft, and is owned by Atlus and Sega.

It is a spiritual successor to Career Soft's earlier Langrisser series.

Working Designs published Growlanser II and III in North America together in a package called Growlanser Generations that had additional features.

[1] The PSP version of Growlanser IV: Wayfarer of Time was also published in North America by Atlus.

All titles feature character art by Satoshi Urushihara.