Final Fantasy 16's PC release is in 'final stages of optimization' & likely to get a demo

Published , by TJ Denzer

With Final Fantasy 16’s final run of DLC coming up, many were curious about the PC version of the game as well, and producer Naoki Yoshida provided a wealth of details on the matter. In a recent interview, Yoshida shared that the PC version is in its “final stages of optimization” and shouldn’t likely take more than a year to release. Moreover, there will almost certainly be a demo leading up to its release.

Naoki Yoshida spilled some details on what’s going on with Final Fantasy 16’s PC version in a chat with Game Informer. There, Yoshida said that the Final Fantasy 16 developers are coming into the last rounds of development on the game. He also shared a small tease of what hardware requirements players are going to be looking at when it comes out:

Producer Naoki Yoshida didn't have a release date for Final Fantasy 16 on PC, but he claims it's not horribly far off.
Source: Square Enix

Yoshida would go on to share that while he couldn’t really give a release date just yet, the team doesn’t expect Final Fantasy 16’s PC version will take much longer than a year to get ready. Yoshida expects it could possibly be sooner, and the developers want to get players good and excited for it:

Final Fantasy 16 was a highlight of 2023’s RPG offerings, enjoying a high-scoring Shacknews review, and it’s arguably only gotten better with the release of an update that brought New Game+ and a run of DLC episodes expanding the story. With what sounds like a PC release coming around the corner, stay tuned for more details such as the demo and final release date.