Metaphor: ReFantazio was released and made a lot of noise as one of 2024's best games. But is it better than Persona 5 Royal?

From the creators of Persona 5 comes a brand new franchise that mixes a similar style of presentation and combat with a very different fantasy world.

It seems fans feel the same, after Metaphor: ReFantazio clocked in at 60,507 concurrent players in the first 24 hours of its release, according to SteamCharts. On top of this, Atlas reported that they’d already seen one million sales, all in the same 24 hours.

Metaphor: ReFantazio launches this week, with an abundance of high review scores, and a serious shot at game of the year. The RPG from revered publisher Atlus is an enthralling adventure set in a picturesque, fantasy land, but fans of the studio may see this new title as a Persona-like first and foremost.

But we — and I include myself among them — don’t need to keep frothing for Persona 6, because Metaphor: ReFantazio is the successor worthy of the crown and adoration. It’s a finely crafted triumph that isn’t restricted by trying to be another Persona game.

Atlus’ new game from Persona designer Katsura Hashino is about to transform fantasy games—with anxiety.

Metaphor: ReFantazio, the upcoming fantasy political drama RPG from Atlus, is only a few days away from its October 11 release date. Broadly, the game takes the social sim and time management mechanics of the Persona series and fine-tunes them to make a truly exceptional RPG that represents a step forward for the studio in a lot of ways.

Metaphor: ReFantazio is a big, ambitious game with a sociopolitical centric story, and these are the features that are found in the game.

A fantasy Persona game - that's the back of a napkin pitch for Metaphor: ReFantazio, the upcoming Atlus RPG that blends the key mechanics from the Persona games with a novel fantasy setting. But Metaphor marries this with an expanded scope,