List of Nintendo 64 role-playing games

The Nintendo 64 is infamous for having few role-playing games (RPGs), especially in comparison to its predecessor, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The major reason for this is that both Square and Enix (later merged into Square Enix in 2003) developed titles for the Sony PlayStation due to it utilizing a CD-ROM format. Many Nintendo 64 role-playing games were only released in Japan.

Games with a few role-playing elements
Action-adventure games can be very similar to role-playing games. One notable difference is that role-playing games give the player the choice to affect character development (e.g. having some degree of control over a party member's statistics), while action-adventure games have character development occur at fixed locations decided by the plot.

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.