{"id":30178,"date":"2026-01-08T11:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=30112"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:09:19","slug":"dragon-quest-vii-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/news\/dragon-quest-vii-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Quest VII Reimagined Gets New Demo And Release Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not long before <a href=\"https:\/\/dragonquest.square-enix-games.com\/games\/en-us\/dragon-quest-vii-reimagined\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dragon Quest VII Reimagined<\/strong><\/a> is out on February 5th, 2026, and to celebrate the upcoming release, developer <strong>Square<\/strong> <strong>Enix<\/strong> has released a new demo trailer. The game will be released on\u00a0<strong>Nintendo Switch 2<\/strong>, <strong>Nintendo<\/strong> <strong>Switch<\/strong>, <strong>PlayStation 5<\/strong>, <strong>Steam<\/strong>, and <strong>Windows<\/strong>, priced at $59.99, with pre-orders currently available. While eager RPG fans wait for the full release of this remake of the original <strong>Dragon<\/strong> <strong>Quest<\/strong> <strong>VII<\/strong>, they can get stuck into a new demo that has several hours of gameplay and will carry your save file over to the full game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s not all, <strong>Square<\/strong> has also confirmed that anyone with a save file from the demo will be gifted a new cosmetic outfit when they purchase the full game. \u201cPlayers who possess save data from the demo and play the full release will be gifted a unique in-game &#8216;Day Off Dress&#8217; cosmetic for Maribel. This cute outfit will make Maribel look as fashionable as she is formidable.\u201d <strong>Square<\/strong> said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Dragon<\/strong> <strong>Quest<\/strong> <strong>VII<\/strong> <strong>Reimagined<\/strong> builds on the beloved original game to deliver a modern RPG for a new generation. <strong>Akira Toriyama<\/strong>\u2019s classic character designs have been reimagined into a charming, hand-crafted 3D art style, complemented by diorama-inspired environments and dungeons. The story stays faithful to the original while offering a more streamlined experience and enhanced narrative depth through optional side quests, stories, and minigames.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Opening Movie | DRAGON QUEST VII Reimagined\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GL2-tty-p4M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not long before Dragon Quest VII Reimagined is out on February 5th, 2026, and to celebrate the upcoming release, developer Square Enix has released a new demo trailer. The game will be released on\u00a0Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Steam, and Windows, priced at $59.99, with pre-orders currently available. While eager RPG fans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-30178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dragon-quest-vii"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}