# List of Ys media

Ys (イース, Īsu,) /iːs/ is a Japanese role-playing video game series and one of Nihon Falcom's flagship franchises. The series started on the PC-8801 in 1987. The games take place in a fictional world with some geographical resemblance to Earth, and chronicle the adventures of Adol Christin, a red-haired swordsman, and his companions. Two separate OVA anime series of Ys have also been released, as well as many soundtracks featuring the game's music.

## Video games
### Main series

| Title | Original release date | Original release date | Original release date |
| Title | Japan | North America | PAL region |
| Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished | June 21, 1987 | 1988 (Master System) | 1988 (Master System) |
| Notes: Originally released on PC-8801, later ported to X1 (1987), PC-9801 (1987), FM-7 (1987), MSX2 (1987), Famicom (1988), Master System (1988), MS-DOS (1989), X68000 (1991) ||||
| Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished – The Final Chapter | June 24, 1988 | none | none |
| Notes: Originally released on PC-8801 and PC-9801, later ported to FM-7 (1988), X1 (1988), MSX2 (1988), Famicom (1990) ||||
| Ys III: Wanderers from Ys | July 28, 1989 | 1991 (TurboGrafx-CD) | none |
| Notes: Originally released on PC-8801 and PC-9801, later ported to MSX2 (1989), X68000 (1990), TurboGrafx-CD (1991), SNES (1991), Famicom (1991), Sega Genesis (1991), PlayStation 2 (2005) ||||
| Ys IV: Mask of the Sun | November 19, 1993 | none | none |
| Notes: Originally released on Super Famicom, later ported to PlayStation 2 (2005), Mobile (2006) ||||
| Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand | December 29, 1995 | none | none |
| Notes: Originally released on Super Famicom, later ported to PlayStation 2 (2006) Re-released same year as an "Expert" edition ||||
| Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim | September 27, 2003 | February 22, 2005 (PlayStation 2) | September 16, 2005 (PlayStation 2) |
| Notes: Originally released on Windows, later ported to PlayStation 2 (2005), Mobile (2005), PlayStation Portable (2006) ||||
| Ys Origin | December 21, 2006 | May 31, 2012 | May 31, 2012 |
| Notes: Originally released on Windows, later ported to PlayStation 4 (2017), PlayStation Vita (2017), Xbox One (2018), Nintendo Switch (2020) It was only released digitally in North America and Europe. ||||
| Ys Seven | September 16, 2009 | August 17, 2010 | December 29, 2010 |
| Notes: Originally released on PlayStation Portable, later ported to Windows (2012) It was only released digitally in Europe ||||
| Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana | July 21, 2016 | September 12, 2017 | September 15, 2017 |
| Notes: Originally released on PlayStation Vita, later ported to PlayStation 4 (2017), Windows (2018), Nintendo Switch (2018), Google Stadia (2021), PlayStation 5 (2022) ||||
| Ys IX: Monstrum Nox | September 26, 2019 | February 2, 2021 | February 5, 2021 |
| Notes: Originally released on PlayStation 4, later ported to Google Stadia (2021), Windows (2021), Nintendo Switch (2021), PlayStation 5 (2023) ||||
| Ys X: Nordics | September 28, 2023 | October 25, 2024 | October 25, 2024 |
| Notes: Released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Windows ||||

### Spin-offs

| Title | Original release date | Original release date | Original release date |
| Title | Japan | North America | PAL region |
| Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys | December 22, 1993 | none | none |
| Notes: Released on PC Engine CD-ROM² Developed by Hudson Soft ||||
| Ys Strategy | March 23, 2006 | none | December 7, 2006 |
| Notes: Released on Nintendo DS Developed by Future Creates ||||
| Ys Online: The Call of Solum | December 25, 2009 | none | 2009 |
| Notes: Released on Windows Online MMORPG developed by Falcom and released by CJ Internet in 2007 in Korea and was in open-beta in Japan; takes place a couple centuries after Ys: The Ark of Napishtim. An English version was available in Europe in January 2009 for beta-testing, before being shut down in November the same year. The servers were shut down in China and Korea in 2010, in Japan in October 2011, and in Taiwan in October 2012. ||||
| Ys vs. Trails in the Sky | July 29, 2010 | none | none |
| Notes: Released as Ys vs. Sora no Kiseki: Alternative Saga only in Japan for the PlayStation Portable Fighting game crossover featuring characters from Falcom's Ys and Trails series ||||
| Ys Online: The Ark of Napishtim | July 20, 2021 | August 30, 2022 | August 30, 2022 |
| Notes: Released on Android and iOS Free-to-play MMORPG based on Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim ||||

### Remakes

| Title | Original release date | Original release date | Original release date |
| Title | Japan | North America | PAL region |
| Ys I & II | December 21, 1989 | 1990 | February 23, 2011 (PlayStation Portable) |
| Notes: Released on TurboGrafx-CD Developed by Alfa System Also available on TurboDuo (1992), Windows (1997), PlayStation 2 (2003), Nintendo DS (2008), PlayStation Portable (2009), Android (2015), iOS (2015), X68000 (2021) PC remakes known as Ys Eternal and later Ys I Complete. Japan-only Nintendo DS remake known as Ys: The Vanished Omen. Pack-in game for TTi's TurboDuo console was a re-pressing of the TurboGrafx-CD version, but with new silk-screening on the CD-ROM (i.e. the TG-CD logo was replaced by the new "TurboDuo" logo, among other changes). The PC Complete version was re-released as "Cheap Edition" in 2005. A PlayStation 2 "Limited Edition" was also released. The Nintendo DS version was a North American exclusive compilation, as it was released as separate games in Japan. The PlayStation Portable version is based on the first remake for the 2001 Windows version ||||
| Ys: The Oath in Felghana | July 4, 2005 | November 2, 2010 (PlayStation Portable) | January 27, 2011 (PlayStation Portable) |
| Notes: Released on Windows Developed by Nihon Falcom Also available on Mobile (2005), PlayStation Portable (2010) Ys: The Oath in Felghana is a "re-imagined" remake of Ys III: Wanderers from Ys, intended largely to make the game's events fit in better with the overarching plot threads introduced in later games. ||||
| Ys: Memories of Celceta | September 27, 2012 | November 26, 2013 | February 21, 2014 |
| Notes: Released on PlayStation Vita Developed by Nihon Falcom Also available on Windows (2015), PlayStation 4 (2020) Ys: Memories of Celceta, released in Japan as Ys: Foliage Ocean in Celceta, is a "re-imagined" remake of Ys IV, intended largely to make the game's events fit in better with the overarching plot threads introduced in later games. ||||

## Other media

| Title | Details |
| Ys: Book One & Book Two 1989–1991 – anime | Notes: Follows to the plot of Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished |
| Ys: Castle in the Heavens 1992–1993 – anime | Notes: Loosely follows the plot of Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished – The Final Chapter |
| Ys: Age of Heroes October 1, 2024 – tabletop game | Notes: Designed by Promethium Books |