Dragon Quest IX

2009 role-playing video game

VideoGame video_game Q2221461

Facts

23 properties

Instance of: video game
Award received: Japan Game Awards Annual Work Category Best Sales Award^[2]
Director: Akihiro Hino^[3]
Genre: role-playing video game^[6]
Publication date: July 11, 2009^[17]
Official website: www.dqix.jp^[21]
Part of the series: Dragon Quest^[8]
CERO rating: A (All ages)^[20]
Composer: Koichi Sugiyama^[4]
Country of origin: Japan^[16]
Designed by: Yuji Horii^[9]
Developer: Level-5^[7]
Distributed by: Nintendo eShop^[18]
Distribution format: Nintendo Game Card, digital download^[14]^[15]
ESRB rating: Everyone 10+^[19]
Game mode: multiplayer video game, single-player video game^[11]^[12]
P14470: Games/Dragon_Quest_IX_Sentinels_of_the_Starry_Skies
PEGI rating: PEGI 12^[22]
Platform: Nintendo DS^[10]
Publisher: Nintendo^[5]
Soundtrack release: ドラゴンクエストIX 星空の守り人 Synthesizer & Original Soundtrack^[13]
Title: ドラゴンクエストIX 星空の守り人^[23]
Units sold: +1020000, +1050000^[24]^[25]

🏷️ Also known as

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🔖 Identifiers · 53

Bangumi subject ID: 1812
Before I Play game ID: Dragon_Quest_IX:_Sentinels_of_the_Starry_Skies
Co-Optimus ID: 1605
Danbooru tag: dragon_quest_ix
ESRB game ID: 29050
Eurogamer ID: dragon-quest-9-sentinels-starry-skies
Everyeye.it ID: dragon-quest-ix
Freebase ID: /m/0fry3q
GOG Dreamlist ID: dragon-quest-ix-sentinels-of-the-starry-skies-2009
Game Classification game ID: 25017
Game Informer ID: dragon-quest-ix
Game Vortex software ID: 5113

Show all 53 identifiers +41

GameFAQs game ID: 937281
GameSpot game ID: dragon-quest-ix-sentinels-of-the-starry-skies
GameTDB game ID: DS/YDQE, DS/YDQP
Gameblog.fr game ID: 262
GamerProfiles game ID: vXl2
GamesMeter game ID: 8129
Gameswelt ID: dragon-quest-ix-sentinels-of-the-starry-skies_8767
Giant Bomb ID (former scheme): 3030-21666
Gry-Online game ID: 9892
Génération Nintendo game ID: 438
HowLongToBeat ID: 2817
IMDb ID: tt0934420
Igromania ID: 5541
Internet Game Database game ID: dragon-quest-ix-sentinels-of-the-starry-skies
Lutris game ID: dragon-quest-ix-sentinels-of-the-starry-skies
Media Arts Database ID: M721583, M721522, C32164
Media Arts Database console games ID (former scheme): 0392123801944, 0392123801588
MobyGames game ID: 47458
MobyGames game ID (former scheme): dragon-quest-ix-sentinels-of-the-starry-skies
MusicBrainz work ID: 381b0331-34f8-4e73-a942-4bca93f1eaab
Nintendo Life game ID: ds/dragon_quest_ix_sentinels_of_the_starry_skies
Nintendo World Report ID: 12542
Nintendo of America Game Store ID (former scheme): 8nAqwcWd79B7uO-DaVi3cKABfcQREINq
Polygon game ID: 1952
Quora topic ID: Dragon-Quest-IX
RPG Site game ID: 92
RPGFan game ID: dragon-quest-ix-sentinels-of-the-starry-skies
RetroAchievements game ID: 9093
Speedrun.com game ID: dq9
StopGame ID: dragon_quest_ix_sentinels_of_the_starry_skies
StrategyWiki ID: Dragon_Quest_IX:_Sentinels_of_the_Starry_Skies
TASVideos game ID: 2029
The Cover Project game ID: 8711
USgamer ID: dragon-quest-9
UVL game ID: 178753
VG247 game ID: dragon-quest-9-sentinels-starry-skies
VGChartz ID: 7147
VGMdb product ID: 991
Vglist video game ID: 5107
VideoGameGeek game ID: 70291
VideoGamer.com game ID: dragon-quest-ix-sentinels-of-the-starry-skies

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🔗 Connections

Game mode 2

multiplayer video game, single-player video game

← Mb:composer 2

Koichi Sugiyama, Koichi Sugiyama

Composer 1

Koichi Sugiyama

Country of origin 1

Japan

Yuji Horii

Developer 1

Level-5

Director 1

Akihiro Hino

Distributed by 1

Nintendo eShop

Distribution format 1

Nintendo Game Card

Genre 1

role-playing video game

Instance of 1

video game

Part of the series 1

Dragon Quest

Platform 1

Nintendo DS

Publisher 1

Nintendo

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Summary

Dragon Quest IX is a video game^[1].

FAQs

What awards did Dragon Quest IX receive?

Honors received include Japan Game Awards Annual Work Category Best Sales Award^[2].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[3] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — director (P57): Akihiro Hino. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — composer (P86): Koichi Sugiyama. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — publisher (P123): Nintendo. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — genre (P136): role-playing video game. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — award received (P166): Japan Game Awards Annual Work Category Best Sales Award. Q108743705. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — developer (P178): Level-5. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — part of the series (P179): Dragon Quest. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — designed by (P287): Yuji Horii. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — platform (P400): Nintendo DS. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — game mode (P404): multiplayer video game. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — game mode (P404): single-player video game. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — soundtrack release (P406): ドラゴンクエストIX 星空の守り人 Synthesizer & Original Soundtrack. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — distribution format (P437): Nintendo Game Card. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — distribution format (P437): digital download. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — country of origin (P495): Japan. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — publication date (P577): July 11, 2009. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — distributed by (P750): Nintendo eShop. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — ESRB rating (P852): Everyone 10+. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — CERO rating (P853): A (All ages). wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — official website (P856): http://www.dqix.jp. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — PEGI rating (P908): PEGI 12. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — title (P1476): ドラゴンクエストIX 星空の守り人. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — units sold (P2664): 1,020,000. nintendo.co.jp. nintendo.co.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ Dragon Quest IX — units sold (P2664): 1,050,000. nintendo.co.jp. nintendo.co.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Dragon Quest IX is an instance of video game (Q7889) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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14w ago · YoshiRulz · 2026-08-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗

TASVideos game ID → 2029

"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ TASVideos game ID: 2029, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/151160042|Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (#151160042)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/"
19w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗

P14470 → Games/Dragon_Quest_IX_Sentinels_of_the_Starry_Skies

"/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/38730|batch #38730]]: adding Giant Bomb Wiki game IDs matched via OpenRefine"
19w ago · Teiron · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Gry-Online game ID → 9892

"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Gry-Online game ID: 9892, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/180140276|Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (#180140276)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/c"
20w ago · Shergutsa · 2026-06-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Instance of → video game

Units sold → {'amount': '+1020000'}, {'amount': '+1050000'}

Part of the series → Dragon Quest

Designed by → Yuji Horii

+ 32 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ StopGame ID: dragon_quest_ix_sentinels_of_the_starry_skies"

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