PC players, your wait can be over quickly, as Sq. Enix has formally introduced that Final Fantasy 16 is headed to PC on September 17, 2024.
Announced forward of tomorrow’s gamescom Opening Night time Reside presentation, the writer confirmed that the PC port is on the best way and will value $49.99. Final Fantasy 16’s two DLC expansions, Echoes of the Fallen and The Rising Tide, are launching concurrently on PC, too, however you may have to pay further if you wish to play them. Whereas it is unclear if the story add-ons will be bought individually, Sq. Enix is providing a “Complete Edition” model of the sport for $69.99 that comes with the bottom expertise, each DLC expansions, and a few miscellaneous in-game objects. Moreover, Sq. Enix confirmed that a demo is offered on Steam and the Epic Video games Retailer now, with any progress made within the demo carrying over to the complete construct.
Final Fantasy 16 was launched in 2023 solely for the PS5. Final September, Sq. Enix confirmed that a Final Fantasy 16 PC port was within the works, which got here to the shock of many as Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida beforehand shut down the opportunity of it coming to PC, noting gamers ought to go purchase a PS5 in the event that they needed to play it. In March, throughout an interview with Sport Informer, Yoshida revealed that the PC port of Final Fantasy 16 was within the “remaining levels of optimization” and hinted that the system necessities to run the sport can be “considerably excessive.”
In our assessment of Final Fantasy 16, IGN wrote: “That includes quick, reflex-driven, action-heavy fight, Final Fantasy 16 is definitely a departure from what followers might anticipate out of a Final Fantasy sport, however its wonderful story, characters, and world-building are proper up there with one of the best the sequence has to supply, and the progressive Energetic Time Lore function ought to set a new customary for the way prolonged, story-heavy video games preserve gamers invested in its world.”
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