It seemed inevitable after the Tactics Ogre remaster back in 2022, and so it was. Square Enix are remastering Final Fantasy Tactics, the classic strategy-RPG from 1997. It’ll arrive on September 30th, 2025 and there’s a trailer below.
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The remaster includes the original game, playable with its original graphics and interface, along with the English translation used in a previous remaster, 2007’s War Of The Lions. Or, if you’re looking for some quality-of-life upgrades, you can switch to an enhanced version which promises “a renewed interface, extensive additions and adjustments to the story, [and] fully voiced dialogue.”
Unlike the main series of JRPGs, Final Fantasy Tactics is, as the name suggests, a tactical role-playing game. You direct a small troop of soldiers on a battlefield grid in turn-based fights, although there’s a beloved story stringing those scraps together, just as per any other Final Fantasy game. The remaster adopts a new subtitle, The Ivalice Chronicles, which refers to the land in which the game is set.
Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles will release via Steam when it launches on September 30th, although the Steam page isn’t yet live at the time of writing.