The Dragon Quest VII logo pictured (image source: Nintendo)
Square Enix is aiming for a remake of the title that goes above and beyond what traditional remasters do, based on reports.
Square Enix
is re-visiting its beloved Dragon Quest Classics. According to reports, the company is currently working on a remake of Dragon Quest VII Fragments of the Forgotten Past. The remake will be released in 2026. This news comes from MP1st which claims to be in possession of “internal files” summarizing Square Enix’s upcoming projects. This is a significant step up from the company’s Dragon Quest HD-2D Remake strategy. Dragon Quest I and II HD-2D Remake is scheduled for release on October 30, 2025. However, Dragon Quest VII will be a “remake”not an “HD remake” of remaster. According to the report the game will go deeper and offer large gameplay and structural improvements instead of simply bumping the resolution and polishing textures.
Bloomberg Journalist Jason Schreier subtly hinted that the project was legitimate. Schreier said on ResetEra that “I think it is safe to say Square wants to remake all DQ games for modern platforms.” I didn’t claim there was no remake!
Square Enix has been reviving Dragon Quest. The company enjoyed great success with Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake (), which sold more than 2 million copies within a month of its debut in November 2024. Within a week of its release,
Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake was the best-selling game in Japan. The game sold 821,770 copies on both the PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch.
Dragon Quest VII was released in Japan on the original PlayStation system in August 2000. The game was one of the most popular titles in Japan. It sold 4,06 million copies. Yuji Horii, the creator of the game, said that the switch from cartridges to CDROM gave him more room to create a DQ game with a massive scale.
Horii stated, “We went too far and made too much of a game.” To put it in perspective, the documentation of Dragon Quest VII on the PS1 was extensive enough that Noriyoshi Fujimoto described it as “from one wall to the next.”
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