Faselei!
Faselei! — frequently asked questions
- Is Faselei! on Steam?
- No. Faselei! is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
- What platforms is Faselei! on?
- Faselei! is available on Neo Geo Pocket Color.
- When did Faselei! release?
- Faselei! was first released on December 29, 1999.
About Faselei!
Faselei! is a Strategy game, developed by Sacnoth and published by SNK, which was released in Japan in 1999. Faselei! is one of the last titles to be released for the Neo Geo Pocket Color and even features digitised lyrics to the game's main theme. Heavily story driven, this strategy RPG takes place in a time when mechs known as TS are the weapon of choice for combat. Gameplay revolves around the battles and customising your TS between those battles. Battles are part turn based and part real-time. The player inputs their actions at the beginning of the turn. The amount of actions they can input is dependant on their type of TS. Once they have finished their selection everything is played out in real-time for the duration of the turn. This makes thinking about what your opponents and allies will do in advance essential before taking your turn.
Summary via IGDB.
Faselei! on Wikipedia
Faselei! is a tactical role-playing game developed by Sacnoth for the Neo Geo Pocket Color. It was published by SNK in 1999 in Japan and 2000 in the United Kingdom. A prospective North American release was cancelled when the console was pulled from sale. Following the exploits of the titular mech-piloting mercenary group during a civil war, the gameplay focuses on combat using mechs, with actions determined by commands input using a pool of action points.
Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).
Game details
- Developer
- Sacnoth
- Publisher
- SNK
- Game modes
- Single player
- Themes
- Science fiction
Details via IGDB.
Collector value & authenticity
Neo Geo Pocket Color · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-08-07
- Region
- EU+JP
- Released
- 1999
- Authenticity
- High
The platform's most interesting strategy game, and the clearest case of SNK's collapse creating a collectible.
Faselei! is a turn-based tactical game built around programming your mech's actions as a sequence before executing them — closer to a puzzle of anticipation than to a conventional strategy game, and unlike anything else on the console. Sacnoth, the studio behind Koudelka, made it, and it shows in the tone.
Its scarcity is a direct artefact of the platform's failure. It shipped in Japan in 1999 and in the United Kingdom in 2000, and the North American release was cancelled when SNK withdrew from the US market — recalled stock later resurfaced in North America, which is why the game has a North American sales history despite never having launched there. Every English copy is a UK one.
How close it came is documented. SNK of America was running a Faselei! preview video on its own website, and GameFan's editor noted in September 2000 that SNK had sent the magazine a finished English ROM 'shortly before its spectacular derailment'. The American localisation was not an aspiration that ran out of time; it was done, and then the company that owned it left the continent.
Before you buy
Verify the packaging format. The UK release came in a plastic clamshell case, so an English Faselei! presented in a card box deserves a direct question about where the box came from. High reproduction risk given the price, and it saves to the cartridge — check the save battery.
Faselei! screenshots
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