List of Nintendo 64 role-playing games

The Nintendo 64 is infamous for having few role-playing games, especially if compared to the Super Nintendo. The major reason for this is that Square and Enix both started making games exclusively for Sony's Playstation due to its CD format. Nevertheless, there were a few role-playing game on the console, some of which are considered classics to this day.

The list

Title	Year	Notes
PD Ultraman Battle Collection 64	1997	(Japan only)
Quest 64	1998
Super Robot Wars 64	1999	(Japan only)
Zool: Maju Tsukai Densetsu	1999	(Japan only)
Robot Ponkottsu 64: Nanatsu no Umi no Caramel	1999	(Japan only)
Paper Mario	2000
Fushigi no Dungeon Fuurai no Shiren 2: Oni Shuurai! Shiren Jou!	2000	Roguelike (Japan only)
Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage	2001

Games with a few role-playing elements

Action-adventure games can be very similar to role-playing games. One important difference is that the latter allow the player to affect character development (e.g. grinding enemies at leisure to make the character more powerful), while in an action-adventure game character development occurs at fixed locations decided by the plot (e.g. at the end of every Zelda dungeon).

Title	Year	Notes
Wonder Project J2	1996	Simulation game with some role-playing elements (Japan only)
Hexen	1997	First-person action game with some role-playing elements
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon	1997	Action-adventure game
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time	1998	Action-adventure game
Goemon's Great Adventure	1998	Action-platforming game with some role-playing elements
Gauntlet Legends	1998	Hack-and-slash (action) game
Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber	1999	Strategy game with role-playing elements
Harvest Moon 64	1999	Simulation game with role-playing elements
Hybrid Heaven	1999	Action game with just a single one role-playing game element
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask	2000	Action-adventure game
Mega Man 64	2000	Action-adventure
Hamster Monogatari 64	2001	Simulation game with some role-playing elements (Japan only)

Hybrid Heaven is considered a role-playing game just because it uses Experience points, with random enemy battles, and turn-based battle system (somewhere between real time and turn based similar to Parasite Eve, with combo/brawl-like battle system similar to Legend of Legaia), although the rest of it has little in common with traditional role-playing games (with some game mechanics similar to Metal Gear Solid).

Daikatana for the N64 has limited stat-point "role-playing game-mechanics" too, but hardly affects the gameplay.