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Square Enix is bringing Final Fantasy 7 Ever Crisis to PC after all, and data between the mobile game and Steam game will cross over. Square Enix made the comments during a special Ever Crisis livestream, but the publisher didn’t say when Ever Crisis might release on PC.
Square Enix didn’t announce plans for launching Ever Crisis on other platforms. If it follows the same pattern as the Pixel Remaster games, which released on mobile and PC before coming to Switch and PS4, then the chance likely isn’t out of the question.
Ever Crisis and its fusion of multiple pieces is a bit of a Hojo experiment in itself. It’s a highly condensed retelling of the Final Fantasy 7 saga, but it also introduces new story elements, including tie-ins with the now-defunct First Soldier multiplayer game and some kind of young Sephiroth prequel story set before Crisis Core.
Whether this all connects to Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is anyone’s guess, but for now, Square Enix is releasing story chapters in chunks at set intervals.
Ever Crisis is also a gacha game in the vein of Genshin Impact, only instead of characters you may or may not get, it’s outfits. Square Enix saw some success with its other gacha games – Brave Exvius, home of one of the best Final Fantasy Cid appearances, still draws in nearly $1 million globally each month – though how well Ever Crisis performs remains to be seen.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF