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Final Fantasy VII Revelation is developed and published by Square Enix as the third and final chapter of the Final Fantasy VII Remake series. It was announced on June 5, 2026, and is slated for a simultaneous worldwide launch in Spring 2027. Development is handled internally by Square Enix’s Creative Studio I, the team behind the earlier Remake entries.

Platforms and Release

In a notable change from the previous two entries, Revelation launches on all platforms at the same time rather than as a timed exclusive. It releases in Spring 2027, during the 30th anniversary year of the original 1997 game. It is the first mainline Final Fantasy to arrive on Xbox at launch since Final Fantasy XV, and the first to launch on a Nintendo console since Final Fantasy VI.

Key Staff

At announcement the team framed Revelation as the convergence of the many Final Fantasy VII stories told over the years, and the emotional payoff of a project spanning three decades. The director has said the title is built around the theme of resolve.

Development Status

Revelation entered full production after the launch of the previous entry, and its story was finished ahead of the rest of development. By the time of the reveal the director said the game was on schedule with playtesting well underway, adding that he had personally played through the entire game around forty times. The shift to launching on several platforms at once was handled by splitting the studio into smaller groups assigned to optimize each version, with the team aiming for gameplay and presentation parity across all of them.

Revelation followed a three-year production cycle, the shortest of the three Remake games. The director credited that pace to keeping most of the core team from the earlier entries together rather than breaking it up between projects, which let their experience and tools carry over instead of being rebuilt for each game.

The director has since put a figure on that continuity: more than ninety percent of the staff who worked on the first game in the Remake series stayed with the project through to Revelation, across a trilogy that has taken the team over ten years and three games to build. He has pointed to keeping the group together between projects, rather than disbanding and re-forming it, as a large part of why each instalment came together as quickly as it did.

Carrying Over Your Journey

Players who have save data from the earlier entries in the Remake series unlock bonus content in Revelation. A save from Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade grants a Chocobo and Moogle Summon Materia, while a save from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth grants a Phoenix Summon Materia.

Future Content

Ahead of launch the team decided against producing downloadable content for Revelation. The director explained that they received many requests for add-on content for the previous entry, but chose to focus all of the studio's development resources on finishing the main game and releasing it as soon as possible. He added that the team would actively consider post-launch downloadable content if there is strong demand from players after release. No such content has been announced.

He has since ruled out the idea that the trilogy's conclusion is being held back for an add-on. The story finishes inside the main game, and he has said the team is serious about ending the series with Revelation and is developing it to that plan. If downloadable content does happen, his description of it is a spin-off built around a single character and their untold story rather than any continuation of the main plot, in the mould of the character-focused side episode the series has released before. Nothing has been decided and nothing has been announced.

Physical Edition

Whether Revelation ships on a disc or a cartridge is still open. The director has said the team is working through what the product lineup will be and cannot say anything definitive yet, but that he is pushing internally to make some form of physical edition possible. The obstacles he has named are practical: every platform holder sets its own rules, and storage limits on key cards and disc capacity both feed into which format would actually suit a game this size. He has said he expects some kind of packaged edition to remain viable even as download codes become the norm, and that he would be sorry to see the culture around physical copies disappear.

Announcement

Revelation was revealed in June 2026 with a cinematic reveal trailer and an extended gameplay introduction, presented by director Naoki Hamaguchi alongside Matt Mercer, the English voice of Vincent Valentine.

A further showing is scheduled. The director is due to appear at gamescom Opening Night Live on August 25, 2026 to give a new look at the game.