10 games similar to Chrono Trigger, a Role-playing (RPG) game, drawn from IGDB's similarity data. Each pick below notes the genres it shares with Chrono Trigger.
01Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games structure their narratives around multiple endings shaped by player choice, and both feature side quests that deepen the world and reward exploration. Three Houses shares Chrono Trigger's turn-based tactical combat and bird's-eye perspective, though Three Houses emphasizes grid-based positioning over active timing. The relationship-building between characters mirrors Chrono Trigger's ensemble party dynamics across its time-spanning adventure.
02Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games are turn-based JRPGs with fantasy settings and anthropomorphic characters. Legrand Legacy explicitly positions itself as a spiritual successor to classic JRPGs like Chrono Trigger, sharing that lineage's focus on hand-drawn worlds, party-based combat, and epic narratives centered on preventing catastrophe. Where Chrono Trigger spans time periods, Legrand Legacy explores a war-torn fantasy realm with similarly high stakes and personal redemption themes.
03Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games center on a young protagonist assembling a team to battle increasingly powerful opponents across distinct regions. Chrono Trigger uses time travel to connect its areas; Shield explores an open region with varied environments. Both employ turn-based combat where party members take sequential actions, and both structure their stories around a world-threatening crisis that emerges as the plot advances, requiring the hero to grow stronger to face it.
04Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games structure their narratives around world-ending threats and personal quests that shape history. Chrono Trigger uses time travel across multiple eras to prevent apocalypse, while Cyberpunk 2077 explores a dystopian future through a mercenary's pursuit of immortality. Each offers multiple endings determined by player choices, and both feature science fiction settings where your decisions ripple across the story's outcome.
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05Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games send a party across distinct environments to stop an apocalyptic threat, building a team of allies with varied abilities along the way. Chrono Trigger's time-spanning adventure and Borderlands 3's multi-planet journey share that structure of traveling through a large world, gathering companions, and confronting escalating dangers. Each game emphasizes exploration and character progression within an open setting.
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06Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games blend fantasy and science fiction settings across their campaigns. Immortal: Unchained channels a souls-inspired structure with deliberate combat encounters, while Chrono Trigger uses active time battles to create strategic depth. Though separated by genre and perspective, both weave technological and magical elements together and demand player engagement with hostile environments to progress through their worlds.
07Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games pit a small group of survivors against world-ending catastrophe, requiring them to explore hostile realms and gather resources to survive. Chrono Trigger sends you through time portals to prevent apocalypse; Remnant has you venture through dimensional rifts to fight back against one already underway. Both offer new game plus to revisit the challenge with enhanced power, rewarding players who commit to multiple playthroughs.
08Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games are JRPGs where a protagonist must stop a world-threatening force, gathering allies along the way. Chrono Trigger uses active time battles across multiple time periods, while Tales of Berseria employs real-time combat in a single fantasy world. Both offer new game plus modes and multiple endings, rewarding players who replay their journey to uncover alternate outcomes and deepen the story.
09Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games center on a race against time to prevent apocalypse, with active time battles and a protagonist driven by moral stakes. Lightning Returns shares Chrono Trigger's structure of revisiting locations across different time periods to complete sidequests that strengthen your party before the final confrontation. Each game offers multiple endings tied to player choices, rewarding engagement with its world across playthroughs.
10Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games pair strategic worldmap exploration with turn-based tactical combat, letting you manage a party across an open fantasy setting. Battle Brothers strips away Chrono Trigger's time travel narrative to focus on the mercenary company angle, where you hire and equip soldiers for contract work rather than assembling a fixed cast. The isometric perspective and emphasis on positioning during combat carry over directly.
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10 games similar to Chrono Trigger: Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Legrand Legacy, Pokémon Shield, Cyberpunk 2077, Borderlands 3, Immortal: Unchained, Remnant: From the Ashes, Tales of Berseria.
Most of these games share Role-playing (RPG), Fantasy, Open world and Science fiction with Chrono Trigger, based on IGDB's similarity data. Each pick has a short note explaining what it has in common with Chrono Trigger.