Dragon Quest VII Reimagined gets a demo this week, and your progress'll carry right over into the full game

Grab your dragons and don't hide those quests, arsenic a Dragon Quest VII Reimagined demo is acceptable to popular up connected Steam this week. It'll connection a taster of the revamped RPG up of afloat merchandise adjacent month, and immoderate advancement you marque successful the demo'll transportation close over, truthful you don't person to interest astir sprinting done aboriginal crippled sections again.

Developers Square Enix and HexaDrive person announced that this demo'll get for PC connected January 7th, putting retired the quality alongside the game's intro movie. WARNING: Do not marque the aforesaid mistake I did and spell apical ticker the intro movie without making definite your headphones are astatine a suitably tenable volume. Anyway, the movie shows disconnected the loveably cartoonly 3D facelift Reimagined gives Dragon Quest 7: Fragments of the Forgotten Past, conscionable successful lawsuit you missed that being revealed during past September's Nintendo Direct.

While I person zero Dragon Quest credentials with which to connection in-depth judgement, there's an undeniable charm to the caller diorama-heavy benignant successful which Akira Toyama's designs person been rendered this time, adjacent if immoderate of the facial expressions occasionally get precise weird. Though, this being a cutscene, it seemingly doesn't connection overmuch successful the mode of showing disconnected the revamped conflict mechanics and "significantly streamlined" communicative Square Enix person promised, with some of those changes aimed astatine making things much accessible to newbies and veterans.

Going backmost to the demo, successful summation to the useful prevention information carryover, Square Enix revealed that everyone who dips their toed into the demo volition beryllium fixed an outfit dubbed the “Day Off Dress” which Maribel tin deterioration successful the afloat game.

That afloat merchandise is inactive penned successful for February 5th, 2026. You tin wishlist Dragon Quest VII Reimagined connected Steam if you're truthful inclined, and/or cheque retired our reappraisal of Dragon Quest III's HD-2D Remake if you're keen to inject much words astir revamped lizard adventures into your brain.