List of Mystery Dungeon video games

Koichi Nakamura, founder of Chunsoft and co-creator of the Dragon Quest series, conceived the Mystery Dungeon series as Chunsoft's first original work, basing the design on the game Rogue.

[2] The first game, Torneko's Great Adventure (1993), stars a shopkeeper character from Dragon Quest IV, and the majority of the games in the franchise similarly feature characters from preexisting series.

The games of the Mystery Dungeon series can be largely divided into five groups.

One is the Shiren the Wanderer series, which is the only subset to be based on original characters rather than those of other franchises.

Prior to that, the franchise had been dormant, with the last game as Etrian Mystery Dungeon 2 in 2017.