# Faxanadu

> Faxanadu is Hudson Soft's 1987 NES action role-playing game, a spin-off of Falcom's Xanadu set on and inside the World Tree.

Web page: https://emulationking.com/nintendo/nes/games/faxanadu/
Page updated: 2026-09-30

- Console: NES / Famicom
- Released: 1987
- Developer: Hudson Soft

Faxanadu is an action role-playing game developed by Hudson Soft, released in Japan in 1987 and in North America in 1989. It is a spin-off of Nihon Falcom's Xanadu. A wanderer returns to his elven home town to find the World Tree poisoned and its springs dry, and climbs the tree to find the cause.

The game is side-scrolling, with towns where gold buys weapons, armour and magic. Progress is saved with mantras, passwords given by the priests in each town.

A native PC port exists: FaxanaduRecomp, a static recompilation by mstan.

## Faxanadu PC Ports

- [FaxanaduRecomp](https://emulationking.com/nintendo/nes/games/faxanadu/ports/faxanadurecomp/index.md): FaxanaduRecomp is a static recompilation of Faxanadu for Windows, playable to the credits, with mantra password auto-fill and save states.