Suikoden

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Suikoden
Genre(s)	Role-playing
Developer(s)	Konami, Hudson Soft
Publisher(s)	Konami
Creator(s)	Yoshitaka Murayama
Platform(s)	PlayStation Sega Saturn Windows PlayStation 2 Game Boy Advance Nintendo DS PlayStation Portable Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X/S
First release	Suikoden 15 December 1995
Latest release	Genso Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no Toki 9 February 2012

Suikoden (Japanese: 幻想水滸伝, Hepburn: Gensō Suikoden, lit. "Fantasy Water Margin") is a series of role-playing video games created by Yoshitaka Murayama. The games are loosely based on the classical Chinese novel Water Margin,^[1] whose title is rendered as Suikoden (水滸伝) in Japanese. Each individual game centers on themes of politics, corruption, revolution, mystical crystals known as True Runes, and the "108 Stars of Destiny"—the 108 protagonists who are loosely interpreted from the source material.

Although the events of the games are not chronological, the entire series (except for Tierkreis and Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no Toki) takes place within the same world, among continuing and overlapping histories. In some cases, several characters appear in multiple installments.

A spiritual successor to the series titled Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes was released on 23 April 2024.^[2] A high-definition remaster of the first two games under the title Suikoden I & II HD Remaster: Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars is set for release on 6 March 2025.^[3]