The biggest reveal at Summer Game Fest 2026 was the third of the Final Fantasy 7 remake games and it’ll be out on all formats at the same time.
This year’s Summer Game Fest was undoubtedly one of the best ones so far but, as ever, it was a frustrating experience to watch, as while there were lots of exciting games most barely got a minute or two on stage before the focus immediately switched to something else.
So while getting new glimpses at games such as Resident Evil Veronica, Alien: Isolation 2, and genATLAS (by the maker of ICO) were great there was very little official information and relatively little to glean from the footage itself.
Some games did get a little more time to shine though and Final Fantasy 7 Revelation got more than any, since it was the mic drop annoucement at the end of the show. The final part of the Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy, it will be released in spring 2027 simultaneously on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC.
Seemingly against the odds, the first two parts – Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth – have been exceptionally good, managing to honour the original PS1 game while also reinventing its gameplay, expanding its storytelling, and being perfectly accessible for anyone that doesn’t already know the story.
As such, there’s every reason to expect Revelation will be just as good, especially as Rebirth was our game of the year in 2024. It wasn’t a perfect experience though and while mileage did vary, many people felt the open world element was too overblown and bloated.
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If Square Enix felt they should react to that criticism it didn’t show during the reveal, with a lot of fuss made over the fact that it’s the ‘most expansive’ open world yet and that you can pilot the Highwind airship anywhere you want and immediately parachute to whatever’s below you.
Beyond that, the trailer featured everything you’d expect, including gunslinging vampire Vincent Valentine (who, like Yuffie, was only an optional character in the original) and Higwind pilot Cid as a playable character.
Various Weapons – super hard enemy bosses – also turn up and you can now change each character’s outfit, which alters their attributes and abilities accordingly.
Exactly when in spring the game will be released was not mentioned, but technically that should put it somewhere between March and May. Which suggests that the game wasn’t initially planned for this year and isn’t trying to get out of the way of GTA 6.
The game’s reveal wasn’t the only time Final Fantasy 7 was mentioned during Summer Game Fest, with Tifa turning up as one of the new characters for season four of Street Fighter 6.
Like most things at Summer Game Fest, that had been rumoured beforehand, but it makes sense as she is the brawler of the group. Although it’s rare for Street Fighter to feature cameos of characters from non-Capcom games.
The other three fighters are all brand new, which is always nice to see, with Yasmine and Arjun being complete unknowns at the moment. Bosch was in the story mode of Street Fighter 6 as your rival, but he’s never been playable before, although we can assume he’s a dab hand with a power drill.
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