Dragon's Crown is an action role-playing beat-em-up that is developed by Vanillaware and published by Atlus in North America and Japan, while NIS America will publish the game in Europe for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. The first high-definition game that Vanillaware has developed, as well as the most expensive one, it was originally dropped by Ignition Entertainment in 2012 before being picked up by Atlus.