Games

The first Evangelion video game: an FMV-heavy Sega Saturn adventure released in March 1996 while the anime was still airing. Set right after the Asuka Strikes episode, it mixes turn-based Angel battles with an original story voiced by the TV cast.

Neon Genesis Evangelion is the title shared by two unrelated Japan only games: a 1996 Sega Saturn adventure with RPG and FMV combat, and a 1999 Nintendo 64 3D fighter. Both adapt the anime's Angel battles using footage and voice work from the original television series.

Sega's 1997 sequel to the first Evangelion Saturn game, released one week before the Death and Rebirth film. It drops the slot machine battle system for 3D combat and leans harder into choice driven story around a new transfer student hiding an Angel's core.

A Sega Saturn fandisc built around collecting digital trading cards. Players clear nine short minigames, quizzes, and reflex challenges to unlock cards holding video clips, episode previews, artwork, and mini comics from the series.

Gainax's Evangelion visual novel starring original character Mana Kirishima, a rival Eva type pilot who falls for Shinji. First released for Windows in 1997, it was later ported across Saturn, PlayStation, PS2, and PSP over the next decade.

A Gainax mahjong crossover pitting Shinji against cast members from Evangelion, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, and Gunbuster in a tournament for a wish. Released for PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1998, then expanded into an adult PC port the following year.

A recurring line of Windows and Macintosh CD-ROMs packed with Evangelion wallpapers, screensavers, sound clips, and small utilities for fans' desktops. Gainax kept releasing volumes from 1996 through the era of the Girlfriend of Steel game.

Shinji and Good Friends is an umbrella name for a run of six to seven cheap 1999 Windows minigames from Gainax that dress up classic card and puzzle formats, solitaire, hanafuda, daifugo, page one, and nonogram puzzles, in Evangelion character art rather than telling any story.

A WonderSwan virtual pet game in which the player, as Ryoji Kaji, raises an embryonic Angel over a simulated week toward one of 23 possible final forms, which then fights the three Evangelion units. Bandai published it in Japan in July 1999.

Gainax's Evangelion branded typing tutor, first released for Windows in December 1999 and later ported to Dreamcast and PlayStation 2. Series character Maya Ibuki guides players through seven typing lessons built around recreations of key anime scenes.

Typing Instrumentality Project is a 2000 Windows typing tutor from Gainax that turns keyboard drills into Evangelion themed mini scenarios hosted by Misato, followed by a 2001 Dreamcast port that required the console's optional keyboard peripheral.

Ayanami Raising Project is a 2001 Windows raising sim from Gainax, modeled on the Princess Maker formula, that casts the player as a NERV guardian scheduling roughly a year of Rei Ayanami's study, work, and leisure toward one of many career and romance endings.

Neon Genesis Evangelion 2 is a 2003 PlayStation 2 role-playing game from Alfa System that has players steer an Eva across a large map into action-command battles rendered with CG cutscenes, replaying and reinterpreting story arcs for Shinji, Rei, and Asuka.

Shinji Ikari Raising Project is a 2004 Windows raising sim and romantic comedy from Gainax where the player, as Misato, schedules Shinji's weekly activities across three branching routes set in the peaceful alternate universe glimpsed in the TV series' 26th episode.

Hisshou Pachinko-Pachislot Kouryaku Series Vol. 1: Evangelion is a 2005 PlayStation 2 strategy simulator from Bitsy and D3 Publisher that recreates a real CR Neon Genesis Evangelion pachinko cabinet so players can practice its odds and reel patterns, with no story content.

Girlfriend of Steel 2nd is a Gainax visual novel and dating sim first released for Windows and Mac in 2003 and ported to PlayStation 2 in 2005, set in the peaceful alternate Tokyo-3 glimpsed during the TV series' 26th episode.

A Japan-only PlayStation 2 strategy simulator reproducing two real Bisty arcade cabinets, CR Neon Genesis Evangelion Second Impact and Pachislot Neon Genesis Evangelion, letting players study reel patterns and payout odds before risking money on the actual machines.

A PlayStation 2 visual novel spin-off set around the events of The End of Evangelion, following original NERV agent Kyoya Kenzaki as he digs into the Human Instrumentality Project and Evangelion Unit-04 across ten possible branching endings.

A PlayStation 2 mystery adventure that recasts Shinji Ikari as a NERV investigator chasing a killer through Tokyo-3, mixing visual novel style questioning and clue-gathering with occasional 3D battle segments, voiced by the anime's full original cast.

A PS2 platform fighter that pits Evangelion Units against Angels in Smash-style battles over fully 3D arenas, with six character story campaigns, before a 2009 PSP port expanded the roster with Rebuild-continuity designs.

A PS2 pachinko/pachislot practice simulator reproducing Bisty's CR Neon Genesis Evangelion cabinet, subtitled The Value of a Miracle Is..., part of D3 Publisher's ongoing software line that mirrors real Evangelion-themed arcade machines for at-home study.

A pachinko/pachislot simulator built around Bisty's Neon Genesis Evangelion cabinet subtitled I'll Give the True Love for You, published by D3 Publisher first for PS2 in late 2007 and then adapted for Nintendo DS in early 2008.

A Nintendo DS minigame collection spun off from the chibi comedy series Petit Eva: Evangelion@School, casting Shinji Ikari through 48 touch screen minigames across a school year calendar, mixing point and click, side scrolling, and puzzle segments.

A pachinko/pachislot simulator for Bisty's CR Neon Genesis Evangelion cabinet subtitled The Angels Are Back Again, released by D3 Publisher for both PS2 and Nintendo DS in mid-2008 as one of the later entries in the strategy-guide series.

A pachislot strategy simulator from D3 Publisher's long running Hisshou Pachinko-Pachislot Kouryaku Series, letting players practice the real money CR Yakusoku no Toki Evangelion cabinet at home on PS2 and Nintendo DS, reels, bonus rounds and all.

A 3D mecha action game from Bandai Namco adapting the first Rebuild of Evangelion film, Evangelion 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, putting players in direct control of an Eva unit through Angel battles with a free moving camera and shop upgrades between fights.

A Japan only PlayStation Network subscription service rather than a conventional game, using cel shaded 3D animation of Misato Katsuragi to read real world news headlines to subscribers on PS3 and, via Remote Play, PSP.

The fourteenth PS2 volume of D3 Publisher's pachislot strategy series, simulating the CR Shin Seiki Evangelion Saigo no Shisha cabinet, sometimes rendered The Beginning of the End, released for PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS in mid 2009.

A PlayStation 3 exclusive pachinko simulator from Fields Corporation reproducing the CR Evangelion Hajimari no Fukuin real money hall machine, part of the Gekiatsu Pachigē Tamashii strategy disc line released in Japan in late 2010.

A rhythm action game for PSP from Suda51's Grasshopper Manufacture, setting Akira Yamaoka scored, beat matching stages against footage and music from the first two Rebuild of Evangelion films, Evangelion 1.0 and 2.0.

EVA Card Game is a 2012 Android app from Media Magic that works as a digital trading card simulator built around Evangelion characters and artwork, one of several small licensed Evangelion mobile titles that reached Japanese app stores that year.

EVA Slide Puzzle: Operation Angel Annihilation is a 2012 Android and iOS puzzle app from Media Magic that turns Angel battles into a sliding tile puzzle, clearing lines of matching blocks to trigger EVA attacks against invading Angels stage by stage.

Evangelion MEMORIA is a 2012 social gacha game for Android, iOS, and DeNA's Mobage platform, developed by Taito with COPRO, casting players as a new pilot candidate at Shinji's school who collects Memories to fight Angels alongside in-game friends.

EVA Arcade Series is a lineup of small casual smartphone games launched from December 2012 for Android and iOS, using Rebuild of Evangelion artwork across separate entries such as a sliding jigsaw puzzle, a coin-pusher title, and a tile-matching puzzle battle game.

Evangelion: Catharsis of the Soul is a 2014 Android and iOS strategy app from DeNA where players fortify their own New Tokyo-3 while also cloning Angels to launch attacks on other players' cities, a base-building format in the vein of Clash of Clans.

Evangelion Battle Mission is a 2014 Android and iOS gacha game from Donuts Co., published by Bushiroad under license from Khara, pairing EVA and pilot character collection with real-time puzzle battles where matching colored blocks powers attacks on invading Angels.

Yurushito Angel Drop is a 2015 Android and iOS match-three puzzle RPG from Media Magic, released for Evangelion's 20th anniversary, featuring cute chibi versions of the Angels as puzzle targets that players clear for wallpaper and item rewards.

Evangelion Battlefields is a 2020 Android and iOS real-time PvP action game from LIONA and Takara Tomy Arts, licensed by Khara, where players pilot an EVA against other players online, paired with a physical Bluetooth EVA-shaped controller and collectible ID-chip figures.