tri-Ace is a video game development studio. The studio was founded in 1995 by Yoshiharu Gotanda, Joe Asanuma and Masaki Norimoto, all formerly of Telenet Japan's Wolf Team (which at the time had been developing Tales of Phantasia). They are now best known for the Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile series. Motoi Sakuraba (who had also been associated with Wolf Team) is almost always the music composer for their works, and almost all of their games (which mostly consist of Action RPGs) have been published by Square Enix (Enix pre-merger).
Shotaro Tokuno worked for tri-Ace before beginning a career as a manga artist.
tri-Ace has developed the following games:
- Star Ocean (SNES, 1996)
- Star Ocean: First Departure (PSP, 2008)
- Star Ocean: The Second Story (PSX, 1998)
- Star Ocean: Second Evolution (PSP, 2009)
- Valkyrie Profile (PSX, 2001)
- Valkyrie Profile (Limited Deluxe Pack) (PlayStation, 1999)
- Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth (PSP, 2006)
- Star Ocean: Blue Sphere (GBA, 2001)
- Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (PS2, 2003)
- Star Ocean: Till the End of Time Director's Cut (PS2, 2004)
- Radiata Stories (PS2, 2005)
- Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria (PS2, 2006)
- Infinite Undiscovery (Xbox 360, 2008)
- Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume (NDS, 2008)
- Star Ocean: The Last Hope (Xbox 360, 2009)
- Star Ocean: The Last Hope International (PS3, 2010)
- Resonance of Fate/End Of Eternity (PS3 and Xbox 360, 2010)
- Resonance of Fate 4K/HD Edition (PS4 and PC, 2018) note
- Final Fantasy XIII-2 (PS3 and Xbox 360, 2011) - game design, art, and programming
- Frontier Gate (PSP, 2011)
- Frontier Gate Boost+ (PSP, 2013)
- Labyrinth no Kanata (3DS, 2012)
- Phantasy Star Nova (PSV, 2014)
- Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky (PS4 and PSV, 2015)
- Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness (PS4, 2016)
- Star Ocean: Anamnesis (iOS/Android, 2016)
- Star Ocean: The Divine Force (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PC, 2022)
