Play Shin Megami Tensei - Strange Journey (JP)(2CH) Online

Strange Journey came out for the Nintendo DS in 2009, developed by Atlus. It was a time when the DS library was full of experimental titles, and this one fit right in, offering a dense, serious sci-fi take on the developer's usual themes. You play as a soldier sent with an international crew to investigate a spatial anomaly at the South Pole that is slowly consuming the world, a setup that feels more like a grim techno-thriller than a typical fantasy RPG.

You control a customized member of this strike team, navigating the hostile dimension known as the Schwarzwelt screen by screen in first-person. Your main goal is to push deeper into this shifting hellscape to find a way to stop its expansion. The core loop involves careful dungeon exploration, recruiting demons through conversation to fight for you, and then fusing them together in a demonic blender to create more powerful allies. Combat is a punishing turn-based affair where hitting elemental weaknesses grants extra actions, a system that demands constant attention and party management. Every step forward feels earned through strategic planning and a willingness to lose progress to a bad encounter. It feels like conducting a desperate, tactical salvage operation at the end of the world.