What follows is the platonic ideal of how a game demo should work — both for a fan and for a publisher’s marketing department. The player clicks download on the demo out of mild curiosity. Three hours ...

Square Enix announced Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age has shipped more than 9 million units worldwide. This figure is up from nearly 8.5 million units in May 2025, seven million units in ...

Dragon Quest X Online‘s version 8.0 expansion, Dragon Quest X Online: Stray Children of Space and Time, will launch for PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC on June 25, 2026 in Japan for 4,950 yen, Square ...

It’s not 20 minutes into playing Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D that I text my mom a 30 second clip of my descendant of Erdrick fighting a Slime. It’s the most primal distillation of Dragon Quest. My ...

Square Enix has been on a tear in recent years remastering and outright remaking many of its landmark role-playing games. Along with Final Fantasy, the developer has given the Dragon Quest series such ...

Dragon Quest VII is a legendary game. Released initially in 2000 on PlayStation, it won over legions of RPG fans, particularly in Japan, for its substantial job system, dark narrative, and lengthy ...

Murillo Zerbinatto is a contributor from Brazil. He's an RPG enthusiast (with a focus on JRPGs) who has been around the world of games and content creation for more than five years now. He has a ...

You can't talk about the best JRPGs without bringing up Dragon Quest. The series stands alongside the likes of Final Fantasy as a central pillar of the genre. It's even a major inspiration for the ...

Dragon Quest is a curious series. It sells extremely well in Japan, but up until recently, it didn’t really have much of a presence in the West. But it’s one of the most important Japanese roleplaying ...

The HD-2D format has been a major boon for RPGs ever since its introduction in the original Octopath Traveler. It's since been used to rejuvenate classic RPGs with a new look and feel, and the latest ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. When I reviewed Dragon Quest III HD last year, I talked a fair bit about what an important game it was to JRPGs as a whole and why its reissue was a ...

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake PS5 Review. It’s not every day you get to experience your favorite franchise getting so much love from its creators. Dragon Quest is something special, and it’s taken ...