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Final Fantasy 16: Release Date, Story, And Everything We Know
Main competitors
- Dragon's Dogma 2 · Capcom
Medieval-monster action RPG whose Eikon-like abilities and setting echo FFXVI, but with slower combat.
Source - Elden Ring · FromSoftware
Action RPG that competed for the same audience in 2022-23, with environmental rather than cinematic storytelling.
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Here's everything you need to know about the next Final Fantasy game's story, characters, gameplay, and world.
Six years have passed since the last mainline installment in the decidedly not-so-final Final Fantasy series, making this one of the largest gaps between games in the series' 35 years of history. However, all that waiting seems to be for good reason. What we've seen from Final Fantasy XVI makes the game look like a high-fantasy epic combining the grandeur of older titles with the cutting-edge technology of newer games, making us hopeful that this next entry will be well worth the wait.
- Square Enix's Final Fantasy XVI was dated 22 June 2023 for PlayStation 5 in a PlayStation Blog post of 9 December 2022, with digital Standard and Deluxe pre-orders opening[2][4]
- English cast includes Ben Starr (Clive), Ralph Ineson (Cid) and David Menkin (Barnabas)[4]
- Later facts: it sold over three million units in its first week but missed Square Enix's expectations; the Windows version came 17 September 2024 and Xbox Series X/S on 8 June 2025[2]
Notable features
- The sixteenth main Final Fantasy, an action RPG produced by Naoki Yoshida and directed by Hiroshi Takai, with Capcom veteran Ryota Suzuki as battle designer and Masayoshi Soken as composer; its world is split into segmented open areas, towns and dungeons selected from a map via fast travel[2]
- Billed as the first full-fledged action RPG in the series designed for PS5; the player switches and chains Eikon skills and controls Eikons in battle[2][4]
- Set in Valisthea under the Mothercrystals as the Blight spreads; Clive Rosfield, First Shield of Rosaria, swears revenge on the Dark Eikon Ifrit after his brother Joshua becomes the Phoenix Dominant[2][4]
- Clive is the only controllable character, with AI companions such as the dog Torgal and Cidolfus Telamon (Ramuh)[2][4]
- Story-focused and Action-focused modes provide accessibility options[4]