Crystar
Sign in to saveCrystar is an action role-playing game developed by Gemdrops and published by FuRyu. The game was released for PlayStation 4 in October 2018 in Japan, and internationally by Spike Chunsoft in August 2019 with an additional Windows version. A port for the Nintendo Switch was released in Japan in February 2022, and worldwide by NIS America later that year. A version for PlayStation 5 was released in December 2024 internationally and in February 2025 in Japan.
Game data
Metacritic 66- Released
- 2019-08-27
- User rating
- 3.25 / 5
- Genres
- Action
- Platforms
- PC, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
- ESRB
- Teen
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8 sectionsContents
- Gameplay
- Plot
- Development
- Release
- Reception
- Notes
- References
- External links
Crystar is an action role-playing game developed by Gemdrops and published by FuRyu. The game was released for PlayStation 4 in October 2018 in Japan, and internationally by Spike Chunsoft in August 2019 with an additional Windows version. A port for the Nintendo Switch was released in Japan in February 2022, and worldwide by NIS America later that year. A version for PlayStation 5 was released in December 2024 internationally and in February 2025 in Japan.
== Gameplay == The player controls a girl named Rei Hatada, who makes a deal with twin demons of Purgatory, and the story progresses as the player fights the souls that drift about Purgatory. The concept of the game revolves around crying, which purifies new equipment to use. By defeating specific enemies, "Memoirs of the Dead", final thoughts of the dead, will appear, and crying will purify those thoughts and develop the protagonist mentally.