One that IS in English and I have played a bit is Kowloon Highschool Chronicles. Dungeon crawler RPG(with some SRPG esque bits but in first person) with social sim aspects, you're an Indiana Jones(looter btw) type adventurer kid who transfers to Japanese high school with ancient ruins underneath(it's a little bit more light hearted), and the characters you get along with join your party.
If it's a Persona rip off, it's gotta be of the earlier games since it came out before P3, but don't know if can be called that since it was originally published by Atlus in Japan.
It has a really annoying system though, a character says something to you and a wheel shows up with unreadable fonts, and you have to press the right response at the right time and I think it even depends on how hard you press it.
>>44120>but it's a tactics rpg and the sprite aesthetics look closer to p1/p2 than the other games in the series, but according the the devs they never played persona and the similarities are just a coincidence.That's funny because this game is also part of series that also started out like that, and released almost around the same time as the first Persona but it was Japan only
I think it's the closest thing to persona, including the mythological motifs