Shinji and Good Friends

Rather than one game, the line covers several small standalone Windows titles, each built around a familiar tabletop or puzzle format reskinned with Evangelion cast art. Is That Solitaire? offers a set of solitaire variations with selectable character backgrounds. Missions of Logic gives players 200 nonogram picture puzzles split across five puzzle sets. Second Hanafuda Impact, All Out Rich Man Poor Man, Bonjourno 7 Up, and American Page One adapt hanafuda, daihinmin, and other traditional card games, dressing the cast in period costumes like kimonos or Western wear. Most entries add small bonuses on top of the core game, such as unlockable wallpapers and short character dialogue scenes.

Gainax developed and self published the entire line for Windows 95 and 98, releasing a new title roughly every month or two between February and November 1999. These were inexpensive, low-production tie-in discs rather than full retail releases, and none of the individual titles were ported to consoles or released outside Japan.

For years the series sat in lost media circles, since Gainax's old promotional pages survived only through the Wayback Machine while working copies of the discs themselves were hard to confirm. Fan preservation efforts eventually tracked down the software, and by 2020 the full run of titles was circulating online, including uploads to the Internet Archive.