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It is set in a school, and from its structure of 3D dungeons alone a return to the origins of Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (for the FC, Namco, 1987), the 1st work of the "Megami Tensei series" in the broad sense, can be seen.
As a work following the previous title Shin Megami Tensei II (for the SFC, Atlus, 1994), it should in the normal course have been the development of the 3rd numbered work in the series, but at that time Okada had fallen into burnout syndrome.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu, the four reviewers gave 8, 7, 7, and 7, for a total of 29 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine, it scored 22.5 out of 30, as shown below.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu, the game scored a total of 28 out of 40.
In "The G-MODE Archives 5.5th Anniversary Survey", a feature carried out by Dengeki Online in 2025, it ranked 1st in "feature phone game apps you want to play on current hardware".
Shin Megami Tensei If… was first released on the Super Famicom on October 28, 1994.
A port of the game for iOS was released on March 22, 2013, marking the game's first appearance on a portable platform.
If… was completed in a very short span of time, so much so that in 2003 Okada later described the development time as being "unthinkable" for any developer.
The reviewers in Famitsu Weekly complimented the PlayStation's port's music and story and found the graphics dated and felt that players new to the series would find playing through the game difficult.
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