xeno (series)

Xeno is a Japanese science fiction video game meta series created by Tetsuya Takahashi. The first entry was developed by Tetsuya Takahashi's team of developers at SquareSoft, and subsequent entries have been developed by Monolith Soft, a company founded by Takahashi and his aforementioned team after they left Square in 1999. While the various games have no direct story connections, they have common thematic links and all sport the "Xeno" prefix, which Takahashi has variously described as a means of identifying his games and a symbolic representation of the series. All the games in the Xeno meta series take place within a science fiction setting with some fantasy elements, with its stories frequently featuring psychological and religious themes.