History Creator / Atlus

** ''RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy''

Atlus is a videogame company that was founded in 1986. While not necessarily having the name-recognition of some larger companies, they have a huge number of quality products, both as a developer and a publisher, and often both at once. The Japanese HQ portion of the company is both a publisher (since 1989) and developer, the North American branch serves as a publisher and localization company that publishes more games than just what its parent company Atlus Japan develops and publishes; in the list of games below said games are listed with Atlus being the North American publisher.

* CultClassic: Some of their games/series have very devoted fanbases. Although the description notes they don't have as much name recognition as other big companies, they are hardly unknown.

* {{Woolseyism}}: As Atlus USA doesn't develop anything itself, most of its publishing involves localizing Japanese games, which it does quite well.

* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' (Published ''[[SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Original Generation]]'' 1, 2, and ''EndlessFrontier'' in North America)

* ''VideoGame/WackyRaces (NES version)

** ''VideoGame/RevelationsPersona''

** ''[[VideoGame/{{Persona}} Persona 1]]''
** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}''
** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}''
** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''

* ''DonPachi'' (Publisher)[[superscript:3]]
** ''DoDonPachi'' (Publisher)[[superscript:3]]

* ''VideoGame/MajorLeagueBaseball (NES) (Developer; published by LJNToys in the U.S.)

->''"We get off on your tears"''

* ''VideoGame/{{Kartia}}''

* ''ClassOfHeroes'' (Publisher)

* ''{{Catherine}}'' (Publisher/Developer)

* ''DemonsSouls'' (North American Publisher)[[superscript:1]]

* ''{{Disgaea}}'' (Published the first game in North America before [[NipponIchi NIS America]] was formed)
* ''DokaponKingdom'' (North American Publisher)[[superscript:2]]

* ''{{Lufia}} and the Ruins of Lore'' (North American Publisher)

* ''MagnaCarta'' (Publisher)

* ''MasterOfTheMonsterLair'' (Publisher)
** ''MyWorldMyWay'' (Publisher)

* ''RuleOfRose'' (Publisher)

* ''SummonNight'' (Published ''Swordcraft Story'' 1, 2 and ''Twin Age'' in North America)[[superscript:4]]

* ''ThousandArms'' (Publisher)

* FanNickname: "Fatlus", both for the company and the fans of its [=RPGs=], due to [[BasementDweller certain]] [[GeekPhysiques stereotypes]] about said fans.

* FanNickname: "Fatlus", both for the company and the fans of its games, due to [[BasementDweller certain]] [[GeekPhysiques stereotypes]] about said fans.

* ''SkyGunner''

{{Atlus}} is a videogame company that was founded in 1986. While not necessarily having the name-recognition of some larger companies, they have a huge number of quality products, both as a developer and a publisher, and often both at once. The Japanese HQ portion of the company is both a publisher and developer, the North American branch serves as a publisher and localization company that publishes more games than just what its parent company Atlus Japan develops and publishes; in the list of games below said games are listed with Atlus being the North American publisher.

For the record, a good number of their internally developed[[hottip:* :Games published by Atlus USA but not developed by its parent company may not have this trait]] 21st-century games are ''[[NintendoHard really. Freaking.]]'' '''''[[NintendoHard HARD]]'''''. Though good design means they usually avoid FakeDifficulty. Their American branch is also famous for the translation of their games: {{Woolseyism}} and SuperlativeDubbing abound in games they publish. Atlus is also famous for first exposing North America to NipponIchiSoftware, having published ''[[RhapsodyAMusicalAdventure Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure]]'' back in the [[{{Playstation}} Playstation 1 era]], and later the first ''{{Disgaea}}'' game for PS2. This led to NIS eventually branching out on their own, and to this day the companies share many staff amongst their translation and dubbing teams, as well as an amicable business relationship. In fact, NIS are the ones publishing ''[[PersonaTrinitySoul Persona: Trinity Soul]]'', the anime based on the Atlus game.

* ''EternalPoison'' (Publisher)[[superscript:4]]

* ''Growlanser'' (North American Publisher)

* ''PowerInstinct'' (Publisher and developer for most games; ''Matrimelee'' was published by [[{{SNK}} SNK Playmore]])

For the record, a good number of their internally developed[[hottip:* :Games published by Atlus USA but not developed by its parent company may not have this trait]] 21st-century games are [[NintendoHard freakin']] ''[[NintendoHard hard]],'' though good design means they usually avoid FakeDifficulty. Their American branch is also famous for the translation of their games: {{Woolseyism}} and SuperlativeDubbing abound in games they publish. Atlus is also famous for first exposing North America to NipponIchiSoftware, having published ''[[RhapsodyAMusicalAdventure Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure]]'' back in the [[{{Playstation}} Playstation 1 era]], and later the first ''{{Disgaea}}'' game for PS2. This led to NIS eventually branching out on their own, and to this day the companies share many staff amongst their translation and dubbing teams, as well as an amicable business relationship. In fact, NIS are the ones publishing ''[[PersonaTrinitySoul Persona: Trinity Soul]]'', the anime based on the Atlus game.