Game Information
Overall Rank: 322
Average Rating: 4.5/5
# of Ratings: 2
US Release Date: 09/04/2018
JP Release Date: 07/29/2017
Platform: PC (Steam)
Genres: Role Playing (RPG) (Turn-Based RPG)
ESRB Rating: T
Multiplayer: No
Developer: Square Enix
Publisher: Square Enix
Also Available On: PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Synopsis: The long-awaited 11the entry in the popular Dragon Quest series returns featuring a hunted hero in a vast, beautifully-detailed world. The game is brought to live by a combination of stylistic cel-shading with photorealistic detail along with the unique art style of famed manga artist Akira Toriyama. Join up with a group of endearing, unique characters, each with their own stories. Explore cities, quaint villages and deep dungeons. Enjoy a turn-based battle systems that is easy for new-comers to pick up but deep enough for hardcore fans. An epic mystery and riveting story as you can only find in a Dragon Quest title awaits.
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An Echo of an Elusive Age of Good RPGs
Matt - wrote on 12/27/2023
Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age was released for Windows and the PS4 in 2018. This eleventh installment of the series comes at a time when many faithful fans of RPGs, or so I’m told, have begun to lose hope in the perennial publishers from the golden age of the genre. I have always enjoyed RPGs, spending most of my time in the Final Fantasy series. The only other Dragon Quest game that I have played was the first in the series, receiving it for free in the late 80s/early 90s from some type of giveaway (I think it was either Nintendo Power magazine or through a cereal company promotion). I am no expert, but am hopeful for the future of the series after playing this one. It seems that Square Enix hasn’t completely destroyed the IP, like it wants to with the Final Fantasy …
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Thank You, Square-Enix!
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/07/2018
It has been nearly a decade since Square Enix disappointed me with the sub-par and inauthentic release of “Dragon Quest 9” in 2009 for the Nintendo DS. I didn’t have many, if any, kind things to say about that entry in the world’s first and most consistently good console RPG franchise. However, I was willing to give Square Enix the benefit of the doubt and hoped that the sequel would, once again, be on a real console instead of a handheld and, naturally, not suck quite so much. That sequel, “Dragon Quest 10,” turned out to be a Japan-only subscription-based MMORPG. Had it merely been Japan-only, someone would have made a fanslation, and I could have checked it out via unofficial channels, but with an MMO subscription tied to it as well, it automatically fell to the bottom of …
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