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The third or fourth title in the Super Robot Wars: Original Generation series, depending on if you consider Super Robot Wars OGs to be one game or two. Following up on 2nd Super Robot Wars Original Generations, The Moon Dwellers adapts the plot of Super Robot Wars Judgment. The Fury storyline of Judgment is incorporated with Touya Shun as the headlining protagonist, backed up by Calvina Coulange as the heroine of another route, alongside GC; like Raul and Fiona in Original Generations, GC protagonist Akimi Akatsuki becomes the younger Half Identical Twin to older sister Akemi. Furthermore, Haken Browning and Aschen Brodel of Endless Frontier also appear. The game was simultaneously released on the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation 4, the first installment for the latter, on June 30, 2016 and was intended to celebrate the franchise's 25th anniversary. Additionally, Bandai Namco has translated the game into English, releasing it only on the PlayStation 4 platform on August 5, 2016. The English translation is famous for its "Blind Idiot" Translation, being very inconsistent with past translated SRW games and full of awkward, unnatural phrasing.

  • Important Banpresto Original Characters debuting here: Gint Kitaumi, Miles Boothlloyd, Iradoya Kujua, Gomoudooka Gorainkel, Bilgor Belcha, So-Des Zuo, Karo-Ran Vi

  • Big Bad Ensemble: As of The Moon Dwellers, at least three major threats have proven themselves to be the biggest ones.
  • Lethal Joke Item: In The Moon Dwellers, the "Mind Blast" optional weapon. It doesn't do a lot of damage and it's normally a waste of space. This optional weapon however is also a key strategy to defeat any boss that casts spirit commands, especially the dreaded "Iron Wall"note  spirit command. It makes any of those bosses a total joke.
  • Mildly Military: Very, very, very lightly deconstructed: The Steel Dragon Group's incredibly lax standards towards pretty much everything so long as they get results has led to a slight tightening of their command structure, getting a very by-the-book commander to try to keep them in line during a period of relative peace.
  • Move in the Frozen Time: In The Moon Dwellers, the Fury have the ability to stop time with their Larseilam technology, its usage only limited by their own knight-like honor system and the fact the supply of Eitelm needed to fuel the Larseilam is low. Nevertheless, the fact that the Fury can stop time pushed the Earth Federation to ask Raul and Fiona Gureden to recreate their Time Flow Engine in the hopes it could be a countermeasure. Indeed, their hopes were not in vain, as when Fury member Jua-Mu is about to wipe out a Steel Dragon battle group in time stop, the Guredans arrive just in time in their Time Flow Engine-equipped mecha, which can move in the area afflicted by the time stop effect.
  • Stopped Numbering Sequels: The Moon Dwellers; by Word of God, this is so newcomers won't be deterred by the game being the next major installment of the series and can still play it without foreknowledge of previous events. It also helps allay the fact that the numbering system is already obfuscated by two installments of the series being condensed into one release in the form of OGs.

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