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Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure

Nippon Ichi Software, Inc. · NIS America, Inc. · 2022-08-30

Steam

RPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Aug 30, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 30, 2000 (PlayStation), Dec 21, 2006 (PlayStation 3), Dec 21, 2006 (PlayStation Portable), Oct 27, 2022 (Nintendo Switch)

Dive back into your NIS roots and experience a game that laid the foundation for the beloved Disgaea series with Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure. Sharper graphics and updated image optimization bring this classic title into the present!

94%
positive of 212 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
61/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure is a 1998 tactical role-playing video game developed and published by Nippon Ichi Software for the PlayStation. It is the first installment in the Rhapsody series. A version for the Nintendo DS was released in Japan and North America in 2008, and in PAL regions in 2009. The game was released for Nintendo Switch as part of the Prinny Presents NIS Classics Volume 3 compilation in western regions, and for Windows as a standalone game worldwide in 2022. The game and series in general has seen much success due to it skewing to a younger audience. Hamster Corporation released the PlayStation version as part of their Console Archives series for the Nintendo Switch 2 and PlayStation 5 in July 2026.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 25 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 35% of 13,428 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.2k–9.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 212 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

22
achievements tracked
46.2%
earned "I Remember This Song♪"
13.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-08-30 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)18410%22

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DRPGCuteJRPGAnimeDramaRetro1990'sComedyFantasy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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