Square Enix has set a date for the end of a story it started rebuilding six years ago. FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION, the third and concluding chapter of the Final Fantasy VII Remake project, launches April 8, 2027, the company confirmed during a PlayStation State of Play broadcast in September 2026. The announcement closes a nearly decade-long trilogy that began with 2020’s FF7 Remake and continued through 2024’s Rebirth, and it lands with a platform list broader than anything the series has attempted before.
Unlike the first two chapters, which launched as PlayStation exclusives before arriving elsewhere, Revelation is confirmed for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, all on the same day. That’s a meaningful shift in Square Enix’s release strategy, and it says as much about the state of the console market in 2026 as it does about the game itself. Below is a full breakdown of what’s confirmed, what it costs, how it fits into the trilogy’s history, and what it’s up against in an increasingly crowded 2027 release calendar.
What was announced and when
Square Enix confirmed the release date during today’s PlayStation State of Play broadcast, which also showed new gameplay footage. The PlayStation Blog ran the announcement under the headline “Final Fantasy VII Revelation launches on PS5 April 8, 2027,” stating plainly that the game “will launch for PlayStation 5 on April 8, 2027.” A parallel post on PlayStation’s German blog carried the same date and added that pre-orders would open in the PlayStation Store starting the day of the announcement.
Square Enix’s own Japanese press release confirmed the title as the third installment of the Final Fantasy VII Remake series, listing the full platform spread: PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, XBOX on PC, Steam, and Epic Games Store. The game had already been teased publicly at Summer Game Fest 2026, but today’s broadcast is the first time Square Enix locked in a firm ship date rather than a launch window.
The Japanese title is ファイナルファンタジーVII リベレーション, and Square Enix is billing it internally as an action role-playing game, consistent with the real-time combat systems introduced in Remake and expanded in Rebirth. A Steam store listing for “FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION” already shows the same April 8, 2027 release date, meaning the page is live and wishlistable ahead of a formal pre-order window.
Platforms: the widest FF7 Remake launch yet
The platform list is the headline change here. FF7 Remake launched as a PS4 timed exclusive in April 2020 and didn’t reach PC until December 2021. Rebirth followed the same playbook: PS5 exclusive at launch in February 2024, with a PC version arriving roughly seven months later. Revelation breaks that pattern outright.
According to Square Enix’s press materials, Revelation ships simultaneously on:
- PlayStation 5
- Nintendo Switch 2
- Xbox Series X|S
- PC via Steam
- PC via Epic Games Store
- XBOX on PC
That’s six storefronts on one day, a first for the Remake trilogy and a notable departure from Square Enix’s historical reliance on timed PlayStation exclusivity to help fund development. The addition of Nintendo Switch 2 is arguably the bigger surprise: the original 1997 Final Fantasy VII never had a mainline Nintendo home console release, and the Remake trilogy has so far been a PlayStation-and-PC story exclusively. Switch 2’s improved GPU headroom over the original Switch appears to have opened the door for Square Enix to bring a full Unreal Engine action-RPG to a Nintendo platform on day one, something that would have been unthinkable on Switch 1 hardware.
Xbox Series X|S inclusion also closes a long-standing gap. Neither Remake nor Rebirth ever came to Xbox, despite Xbox Series X|S being on the market since November 2020. Revelation is the first entry in the trilogy Xbox owners will be able to play without a PlayStation or a gaming PC.
Pricing: what’s confirmed so far
Square Enix’s Japanese press release lists a standard edition price of 9,900 yen (tax included), available in both packaged and download form. That figure lines up with what Rebirth and Remake charged at launch in Japan, suggesting Square Enix isn’t planning a price hike for the trilogy’s finale, at least not domestically. US and European pricing hadn’t been published in the announcement materials reviewed for this piece, though PlayStation’s regional blog posts confirmed that pre-orders would open through the PlayStation Store starting the day of the reveal.
Given that Rebirth launched at $69.99 in the US in February 2024, and given broader industry pricing trends over the past two years, a comparable or slightly higher US price point for Revelation would not be surprising. Square Enix has not confirmed a US dollar figure as of this writing, so treat any number circulating outside the official channels as speculation.
| Detail | Final Fantasy VII Revelation |
|---|---|
| Release date | April 8, 2027 (Thursday) |
| Japanese standard edition price | 9,900 yen (tax included) |
| Platforms | PS5, Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, Epic Games Store, XBOX on PC |
| Genre | Action role-playing game |
| Developer / publisher | Square Enix |
| Trilogy position | Third and concluding chapter |
| First public tease | Summer Game Fest 2026 |
| Date confirmed at | PlayStation State of Play, September 2026 |
How we got here: the Remake trilogy’s timeline
Square Enix first announced it was remaking Final Fantasy VII in full 3D back in 2015, and the project took a five-year detour before anything shipped. FF7 Remake arrived in April 2020, covering only the Midgar section of the original 1997 game, a decision that split fan opinion at the time but ultimately set up a much larger scope for the sequels. Rebirth followed in February 2024, covering the game’s sprawling world-map middle act, from the Grasslands through Forgotten Capital. Both games used real-time action combat layered over the series’ traditional ATB (Active Time Battle) system, a hybrid Square Enix has refined across both releases.
Revelation now closes that arc, covering the final act of the original story, including its climax. Square Enix has kept plot specifics out of its official materials, and this piece won’t speculate on story content beyond what’s been confirmed: Revelation is the trilogy’s concluding chapter. What we do know is the shape of the release itself, not what happens inside it.
The gap between Remake and Rebirth was roughly four years. The gap between Rebirth and Revelation, if the April 2027 date holds, will be a little over three years, a modest but real acceleration in Square Enix’s development cycle for this project.
Historical context: why a same-day multiplatform launch matters
Square Enix has leaned on platform exclusivity deals for major releases for most of the past two decades, and the FF7 Remake trilogy was one of the clearest recent examples. Sony’s marketing muscle helped fund and promote both prior entries, and in exchange PlayStation got console-exclusive windows before ports followed on PC. That arrangement made sense when PlayStation was the dominant home for big single-player Japanese RPGs. It makes less sense in a market where Switch 2 has already shown it can move serious hardware volume, and where Xbox has spent the last several years courting third-party Japanese publishers after years of complaints about its install base for that genre.
A simultaneous six-storefront launch for a flagship RPG is still unusual for Square Enix, even accounting for its broader push toward multiplatform releases across its catalog in recent years. It suggests the calculus around exclusivity payments has shifted, or that Square Enix decided the marketing value of a unified global release outweighed whatever a timed-exclusive deal would have paid.
Competitive landscape: what Revelation is launching into
April 2027 is still far enough out that the full release calendar around it isn’t locked, but the RPG genre overall has had a strong run leading into this window. Big single-player Japanese RPGs have consistently found large audiences on PC and Switch 2 over the past two years, and Square Enix will be competing for release-week attention the same way every major RPG does: against whatever Western open-world titles, live-service updates, and rival JRPGs happen to land nearby. A day-one Switch 2 and Xbox release widens Revelation’s addressable audience substantially compared to Remake and Rebirth, which is likely to matter more for its opening sales than any single competing title.
Within Square Enix’s own catalog, Revelation also has to justify itself against nearly seven years of built-up expectation. Fans who started the remake project in 2020 have now waited through two full games and multiple side releases to reach the ending. That’s an unusually long runway for a single story arc, even by JRPG trilogy standards, and it puts pressure on Revelation to stick the landing in a way few games have to.
Deep analysis: what the Switch 2 release signals
The inclusion of Nintendo Switch 2 deserves its own scrutiny. Bringing a modern Unreal Engine action-RPG built for PS5-class hardware onto a hybrid console, on day one, is a heavier technical ask than a straightforward PC port. Square Enix hasn’t published Switch 2-specific technical details such as resolution or frame-rate targets for Revelation, so any claim about docked or handheld performance would be speculation at this stage. What’s confirmed is that Switch 2 made the platform list at all, which by itself signals that Square Enix’s engineering team judged the hardware capable of running a full-scope Remake-trilogy entry without a scaled-down spinoff treatment.
That’s a notable vote of confidence in Switch 2’s silicon, and it puts Revelation in a small club of AAA, PS5-caliber RPGs targeting Nintendo’s newest hardware on release day rather than as a delayed port. Witcher 3’s remastered edition has already demonstrated that CD Projekt Red-caliber open-world games can run on Switch 2, and Square Enix appears to be betting Revelation can do the same for a linear-plus-open-zone action RPG.
Market impact: Square Enix’s broader release strategy
Revelation isn’t happening in a vacuum. Square Enix has spent the past two years diversifying its release strategy, mixing big single-player releases with smaller remasters, mobile spinoffs, and now the FF7 trilogy’s closing chapter. A confirmed, dated, multiplatform release for the studio’s most valuable franchise is the kind of announcement that tends to move investor sentiment, even without a specific sales projection attached. Square Enix has not published financial guidance tied specifically to Revelation as of this announcement, so this piece won’t attach a revenue estimate to a game that’s still seven months from launch.
What can be said with confidence: a day-one release across six storefronts removes the staggered-launch friction that dogged both prior entries, where PC and non-PlayStation players had to wait months (or, in Remake’s case, over a year and a half) to play a game everyone else had already finished and discussed online. Spoilers circulating for months before a PC release was a recurring complaint through Remake and Rebirth’s launch cycles. Revelation’s unified date removes that problem entirely.
What we still don’t know
Square Enix’s announcement was specific about the date and the platform list, but it left several practical questions open. US and European retail pricing hadn’t been confirmed at the time of the State of Play broadcast. Switch 2 performance targets, storage size, and whether the game will require external storage on Switch 2 haven’t been detailed. Pre-order bonus content, collector’s editions, and any day-one patch plans also remain unannounced. None of that is unusual for a game still roughly seven months from launch, but it’s worth being upfront about what’s confirmed versus what’s still to come.
Predictions: what to expect between now and April 2027
- US pricing lands at or above Rebirth’s $69.99. Given industry-wide pricing trends since 2024, a same-or-higher price point for Revelation’s Western release is the more likely outcome, though Square Enix hasn’t confirmed a figure yet.
- A Switch 2 technical breakdown arrives within a few months. Given how central the Switch 2 release is to this announcement, expect Square Enix or Nintendo to publish resolution and frame-rate details well ahead of launch, likely tied to a future Nintendo Direct or Square Enix showcase.
- Pre-order bonuses will lean on trilogy completionism. Expect bundles or upgrade offers aimed at players who own Remake and Rebirth, similar to the cross-save and carryover incentives Square Enix used between the first two entries.
- Marketing will intensify around the original game’s anniversary windows. Square Enix has consistently timed FF7 Remake trilogy beats around the franchise’s cultural moments; expect a heavier marketing push as the April 2027 date approaches.
- Competing RPG announcements will cluster nearby. A confirmed date this far out often triggers rival publishers to either move around it or lean into the same release window to piggyback on genre attention; watch for other major RPG announcements to shift once more 2027 dates firm up.
How Revelation compares to Remake and Rebirth
| Game | Release date | Launch platforms | US launch price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Final Fantasy VII Remake | April 10, 2020 | PS4 (timed exclusive); PC in Dec. 2021 | $59.99 |
| Final Fantasy VII Rebirth | February 29, 2024 | PS5 (timed exclusive); PC in Jan. 2025 | $69.99 |
| Final Fantasy VII Revelation | April 8, 2027 | PS5, Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, Epic Games Store, day one | Not yet confirmed |
The contrast is stark. Where the first two entries staggered their platform rollout by months or years, Revelation collapses that gap to zero. That alone makes it the most accessible entry in the trilogy on day one, regardless of how the story itself lands with longtime fans.
What this means for PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox owners
For PlayStation owners, Revelation is a straightforward continuation, no new hardware or account requirements beyond a PS5. For Switch 2 owners, it’s a genuine litmus test of whether Nintendo’s newest console can hold a major third-party RPG at a level that satisfies players who already played Remake and Rebirth on PS5. For Xbox Series X|S owners, it’s the first chance to experience any part of the Remake trilogy at all, which could meaningfully expand the audience Square Enix is selling to, independent of how the previous two games performed.
PC players on Steam and Epic Games Store also get day-one parity for the first time in the trilogy’s history, a detail that PC-focused communities have been vocal about wanting since Remake’s staggered 2021 port.
Frequently asked questions
When does Final Fantasy VII Revelation release?
Square Enix confirmed a release date of April 8, 2027, during a PlayStation State of Play broadcast in September 2026.
What platforms is Final Fantasy VII Revelation coming to?
PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, all on the same release day, according to Square Enix’s official press materials.
Is Final Fantasy VII Revelation the last game in the Remake trilogy?
Yes. Square Enix has described it as the third and concluding chapter of the Final Fantasy VII Remake series, following 2020’s Remake and 2024’s Rebirth.
How much does Final Fantasy VII Revelation cost?
Square Enix’s Japanese press release lists a standard edition price of 9,900 yen, tax included. US and European pricing had not been confirmed as of the announcement.
Is Final Fantasy VII Revelation coming to Xbox?
Yes. It’s confirmed for Xbox Series X|S, marking the first time any game in the Remake trilogy has launched on an Xbox platform.
Will Final Fantasy VII Revelation be on Nintendo Switch 2?
Yes, Square Enix has confirmed a day-one Switch 2 release, the first mainline entry in the Remake trilogy to launch on a Nintendo platform.
Do I need to play Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth first?
Square Enix hasn’t published specific guidance on this for Revelation, but given its position as the trilogy’s concluding chapter, playing Remake and Rebirth first is the intended way to experience the story.
Can I pre-order Final Fantasy VII Revelation now?
PlayStation’s regional blog posts confirmed pre-orders would open through the PlayStation Store starting the day of the announcement. A Steam store page for the game is already live with the confirmed release date.
