Etrian Odyssey is a dungeon crawler role-playing video game series. It is primarily developed and published by Atlus and currently owned by Sega. By 2016 the series had sold a combined total of 1.5 million copies worldwide. The first game in the series first announced by Atlus through Famitsu after demonstrating it behind closed doors at E3 2006. It was released in 2007 in Japan and the Americas and the following year in PAL regions. Towards the end of 2007 Atlus announced a sequel to Etrian Odyssey. It was reported that the game would feature 12 job classes and that Yuji Himukai Makoto Nagasawa and Yuzo Koshiro would reprise their roles with Shigeo Komori taking on the role of director. All of the character classes are reused along with three new classes: Beast Gunner and War Magus. The mapping system was improved with new symbols that can be added to the map for more detailed and accurate maps. The sequel was released on February 21 2008 in Japan and in North America on June 17 2008. The game did not release in any other region.