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15 games by Square Enix reviewed here.
15 reviews
The Definitive Edition of Dragon Quest XI doesn't reinvent the turn-based JRPG, and that's the point — an orchestral score, a full second 2D presentation of the same 100-hour campaign, and combat that trusts the format instead of subverting it.
8.5 / 10
Read review of Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age — Definitive Edition
A subscription MMORPG where one character can learn every job in the game, and where the story you're required to sit through before reaching the current patch has grown into a decade-plus commitment. Reviewed with Dawntrail current and patch 7.55 freshly out.
8.5 / 10
The second act of the Remake trilogy trades Midgar's corridors for open regions, a deep Synergy-and-Folio combat system and a genuinely excellent card game — then buries a chunk of it under checklist busywork and a PC port that still stutters a year on.
8 / 10
A spectacular retelling of the first five hours of a 1997 classic, stretched to forty — and a PC port whose launch grievances have quietly been fixed while the argument about the story hasn't gone anywhere.
8 / 10
A near-universally loved remaster of the genre-defining 1997 tactical RPG, undercut for a large share of its 4,979 English reviewers by one decision that has nothing to do with the game itself — Denuvo DRM that requires an online check even in single-player.
7.5 / 10
Read review of FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles
Square Enix rebuilt Final Fantasy as a single-character action game with a Devil May Cry pedigree and the most ambitious set pieces the genre has ever staged, then paid for it with the party control, gear depth and build variety that used to define the series.
7.5 / 10
Square Enix's remaster of a genre-defining 1995 tactical RPG splits its own most invested fans down the middle — the presentation, voice work and orchestration draw near-unanimous praise, while the specific gameplay changes to levelling, permadeath and the class system have produced some of the most detailed, dug-in disagreement this library has read on any remaster.
7.5 / 10
A Square Enix horror-mystery visual novel about ordinary people who gain deadly curses in 1980s Tokyo, built by veteran Trials of Mana and World Ends With You talent — praised almost unanimously for its premise, polish and Steam Deck support, but hit by a specific, widely repeated complaint that its most compelling ideas are largely abandoned after a strong opening.
7 / 10
A full 3D remake of a 1995 Super Famicom classic that never got an official English release until this and a retro re-issue arrived together in 2019-2020 — faithful to the original's charm and class-change system, but missing the SNES version's local co-op and carrying writing a meaningful share of its own Steam reviews call dated.
7 / 10
A sequel nobody expected, arriving fast "PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo" was a sleeper hit for Square Enix, a cheap, strange, meta visual novel about a curs
6.8 / 10
Square Enix marketed this as a life-sim farming game and its own review corpus -- praise and criticism alike -- spent four years correcting the record. It's a JRPG with farming on the side, and knowing that before buying changes almost everything about how the game lands.
6.5 / 10
Square Enix's decade-in-the-making finale to the Xehanort saga launched to genuinely favorable critic scores in January 2019 -- but the audience that has actually reviewed it on Steam, mostly longtime fans who waited years for a PC release, rates the story and combat noticeably harder than critics did at launch, with Kingdom Hearts II held up constantly as the bar it didn't clear.
6.5 / 10
The first new mainline entry in the Mana series in over a decade brings genuinely fun three-character action combat and some of the best art and music the franchise has produced, undercut by a shallower open world than its predecessors, a story several longtime fans call the weakest the series has told, and a real, documented studio closure that landed days after launch.
6.5 / 10
A historically important roguelike finally gets an official English release, undermined by input and text-box delays severe enough to make the game feel worse than the 1993 original it's remastering.
4 / 10
Read review of Dragon Quest Heroes: Torneko's Mystery Dungeon -Classic HD- Review
A Front Mission spinoff so poorly optimised and so quickly abandoned that even Square Enix's own official news feed ended up syndicating press coverage calling it 'best left alone' — a rare case where the harsh consensus is simply accurate.
3 / 10
