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It's pricey, but Chaos Rings 3 is probably the closest. Has everything you described, has turn based combat like persona, criting or targetting a enemies weakness lets you use addition powerful attacks like persona, "genes" that are basically the same as Persona's "personas", you can combine the genes like you combine personas to make new ones, and it uses menu based navigation for choosing between locations like persona.
You live in a city on a satellite, and teleport down to different dungeons on the planet to do missions and progress through the main story. It has new quests each day, and has enough content to play for months. It doesn't have much of the "highschool life" of the persona games, but there is a lot of character development, cutscenes, story time, and conversations to make up for it.
It is heavily inspired by persona in a lot of ways, and makes up for it's high price with a ton of content. It took me about 55 hours to beat the main quest. I'm now up to 80 hours, and I still have a ton of side quests, dungeons to clear, the battle mode to beat, and am still playing it everyday. It has high production values, is enjoyable, and overall I highly recommend it.
Edit: I'll add that the other games listed here: Enchanted Cave 2, Dragonfall, Kotor, Sproggiwood, are all really good games, but I wouldn't have thought of them when considering games like Persona. They do have the elements you mentioned though, if those are the important parts to you.
Doesn't seem like they made it a gacha, so much as they just released an iOS and Android port, according to Wikipeida and Google Play considering its got a $20 price tag.
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Chaos Rings 3 is what you're looking for. The game was planned to be a f2p gacha at one point but changed to be premium. You earn currency through the pretty great story and via daily logins then use it on a gacha.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_enix.chaosrings3gp
Chaos Rings (and sequels) by Square Enix is a great RPG (series) IMO. Offline, standalone, good story, fun to play, one-time (though not cheap) purchase.
Chaos Rings III By Square Enix
It's a mobile RPG that doesn't suck! Seriously, this is a high quality game, that just happens to be on your phone. Not some substance-less crap strangled by microtransactions.
Chaos Rings III Was $20 now $9.99
Chrono Trigger was $9.99 now $4.99
Final Fantasy Tactics was $13.99 now $6.99
Final Fantasy was $7.99 now $3.99
Final Fantasy II was $7.99 now $3.99
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Final Fantasy IV was $15.;99 now $7.99
Final Fantasy V was $15.99 now $7.99
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It's also on android for those interested https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_enix.chaosrings3gp
20 for a Square Enix mobile game
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_enix.chaosrings3gp
Final Fantasy 1-9 (except 8 I think) and Tactics are on mobile.
Dragon Quest 1-8 (except 7) are on mobile.
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Sadly, not a lot on android as it is mostly a hellscape of micro-transactions.
Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery
are going to be some of the better experiences on the platform, IMO. (Especially in terms of games you just buy and play.)
In terms of PC, there's so many it's hard to keep up, especially if you're willing to emulate games from older consoles too.
Lately I've been playing Persona 3 (Emulated) Kingdom Hearts (Emulated, second playthrough. I actually own discs for both of these, but I get to play them high res emulated), Far Cry 5, Devil May Cry 5, and good ol' Skyrim.
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Chaos Rings III, it's ~$30 though.
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, it's only $4.
Dragon Quest VIII, if you don't mind the slow frame rate, it's ~$29.
The Bard's Tale, this one's quite old but it's big and funny, and only $3.
Or you can look at the many ported Final Fantasy games in the Play Store. I'd recommend VII and IX.
Chaos Ring series is ok: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_enix.chaosrings3gp&hl=en
In addation to Chaos rings which i think was made just for android, SE has also ported a bunch of really good RPG's like the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest series
Other good ports are SWTOR: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aspyr.swkotor&hl=en (some other sw games like jedi academy and a few others have been ported but i havent played them yet)
YS series: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dotemu.ys1x&hl=en
And another old port - Baldurs Gate: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beamdog.baldursgateenhancededition&hl=en
XCOM: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tt2kgames.xcomew
Some newer ports include:
Banner Saga: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.stoicstudio.BannerSaga&hl=en
Shadow Run Returns: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.harebrainedschemes.shadowrun&hl=en
I have played most of these on my 10' tab and my phone, all play pretty well.
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