Final Fantasy VII’s remake trilogy will conclude with Revelation

Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.Square Enix has officially announced the third and final game in its Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy: Final Fantasy VII Revelation. It will release on all platforms simultaneously.In footage shown onstage at Summer Game Fest Live 2026, there was a lot to take in: you’ll get to fly the Highwind airship (and jump off it to land in the game’s open world), play as Vincent and Cid in battle (who weren’t playable in Rebirth), challenge the gigantic Weapons, and visit places from the original game like Wutai. You’ll also get to dress up your characters with special armors that can change your stats and your look, with what Vincent voice actor Matt Mercer jokingly called the “fit” system.Image: Square EnixRevelation will conclude a yearslong saga that, so far, has actually turned out pretty well. Final Fantasy VII Remake was a thrilling, thoughtful take on the original that focused on the Midgar portion of the FFVII story. Four years later, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth let Cloud Strife and friends explore a big open world and also added the excellent Queen’s Blood in-game card game.While those games launched as PlayStation exclusives, Square Enix has since made them multiplatform — in fact, the company announced in 2024 that it would “aggressively pursue” a strategy to bring its games to multiple places, and it just launched Rebirth on Xbox Series X / S and the Nintendo Switch 2.Oh, and one detail that fans of the remake trilogy may or may not be happy about for the third game in the series: Chadley, the strange, humanlike cyborg, will be back.Developing…Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Jay Peters