Vagrant Story

Vagrant Story
North American cover art
Developer(s)	Square Product Development Division 4
Publisher(s)	JP: Square NA: Square Electronic Arts EU: Square Europe
Director(s)	Yasumi Matsuno
Producer(s)	Yasumi Matsuno
Designer(s)	Yasumi Matsuno
Programmer(s)	Taku Murata
Artist(s)	Hiroshi Minagawa Akihiko Yoshida
Writer(s)	Yasumi Matsuno Jun Akiyama
Composer(s)	Hitoshi Sakimoto
Series	Ivalice Alliance
Platform(s)	PlayStation
Release	JP: February 10, 2000 NA: May 16, 2000 EU: June 21, 2000
Genre(s)	Action role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player

Vagrant Story (ベイグラントストーリー, Beiguranto Sutōrī) is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation video game console. The game was released in 2000 and has been re-released by Square Enix through the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita consoles. Vagrant Story was primarily developed by the team responsible for Final Fantasy Tactics, with Yasumi Matsuno serving as producer, writer and director.

The game takes place in the kingdom of Valendia and the ruined city of Leá Monde. The story centers on Ashley Riot, an elite agent known as a Riskbreaker, who must travel to Leá Monde to investigate the link between a cult leader and a senior Valendian Parliament member, Duke Bardorba. In the prologue, Ashley is blamed for murdering the duke, and the game discloses the events that happen one week before the murder.

Vagrant Story is unique as a console action-adventure role-playing game in that it features no shops and no player interaction with other characters; instead, the game focuses on weapon creation and modification, as well as elements of puzzle-solving and strategy. The game received critical acclaim from gaming magazines and websites, with some calling it one of the greatest games ever made.