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Final Fantasy VII Remake was released on the 10th of April 2020 for PlayStation 4. A PlayStation 5 and Windows version, Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, followed on the 10th of June 2021, and ports for Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Series X/S launched on the 22nd of January 2026.
Final Fantasy VII Remake sold more than 3.5 million copies in its first three days, making it the fastest-selling PlayStation 4 exclusive at the time. By March 2025, total worldwide sales had reached 8.7 million copies across all platforms.
Tetsuya Nomura served as director, with Yoshinori Kitase as producer, Kazushige Nojima as writer, Motomu Toriyama and Naoki Hamaguchi as co-directors, and Nobuo Uematsu contributing to the music.
Final Fantasy VII Remake replaces the original's turn-based combat with a real-time action system using an altered Active Time Battle gauge. It expands the Midgar section of the original into a full-length game with new characters, expanded story material, and new plot elements including the Whispers, entities that enforce the original game's timeline.
Final Fantasy VII Remake follows Cloud Strife, a former Shinra soldier working as a mercenary, who joins AVALANCHE, an ecological resistance group, to fight the Shinra corporation's extraction of the planet's life energy in the city of Midgar. The story expands on the original with new character arcs and introduces supernatural entities called Whispers that try to keep events on their original course.
Final Fantasy VII Remake is the first in a planned trilogy remaking the 1997 game Final Fantasy VII. The second entry, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, was released on the 29th of February 2024, and the third and final game is currently in development for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows.