was a Japanese video game development studio founded in June 1996 by Team Career, a team within the Masaya Games, which was formed to develop '' Langrisser'' and '' Langrisser II''. Career Soft continued to work with Masaya Games for the development of '' Langrisser III'', '' Langrisser IV'' and '' Langrisser V''. In October 2001,

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acquired Career Soft and became the sole publisher of their games. As a subsidiary to Atlus, Career Soft was in charge of develop the spiritual successor to the ''Langrisser'' franchise, '' Growlanser''. In 2004, after the release of '' Growlanser IV'', the majority of Career Soft's staff was merged into the main development team of Atlus, where they have worked on the ''

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'' sub-series '' Devil Survivor''. Career Soft continued to exist as a label after Index Holdings dissolved Atlus into its video game business in October 2010. On 5 September 2013, as a brand, Career Soft was dissolved once

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acquired

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and transferred all the target company's assets into Sega Dream Corporation. On the 18 February 2014, the assets of Career Soft were transferred to the video game development division of Sega Dream Corporation which was re-branded as Atlus.

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