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DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition on Steam
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The Definitive Edition includes the critically acclaimed DRAGON QUEST XI, plus additional scenarios, orchestral soundtrack, 2D mode and more! Whether you are a longtime fan or a new adventurer, this is the ultimate DQXI experience.
DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition is a jrpg, turn-based combat and rpg game
developed and published by Square Enix.
Released on December 04th 2020 is available on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 10,464 reviews of which 9,627 were positive and 837 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 18.09€ on Eneba.
The Steam community has classified DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition into these genres:
JRPG
Turn-Based Combat
RPG
Party-Based RPG
Story Rich
Dragons
3D
Adventure
Funny
Singleplayer
Fantasy
2D
Colorful
Action
Third Person
Anime
Open World
Crafting
Character Customization
Cartoony
Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition:
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 64-bit
- Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 / Intel® Core™ i3-3330
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon™ R7 260X / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 / 1 GB VRAM / Shader Model 5.0 or higher graphics card is required
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 40 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
- Additional Notes: 60 FPS @ 1280x720. This game is compatible with XINPUT gamepads.
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Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – The Courage to Believe in Something Simple Playtime: 178 hours Note: This review contains spoilers. Look, I get why many players call Dragon Quest XI S predictable, old-fashioned, and traditional. In many ways, it is. The hero is hunted from birth, gathers a party of companions, an ancient evil awakens, and the world needs saving. In Japanese, there is a word often associated with the Dragon Quest series and JRPGs as a whole: ōdō – "the royal road." The classic heroic formula. To a lot of modern players, it feels outdated, even kinda childish. But man, Dragon Quest XI S does something that's actually really hard these days: it dares to believe in simple goodness. Light beating darkness. Friendship winning against despair. People choosing to be kind even when the world gives them every reason not to. Yeah, these are ancient JRPG tropes. But when they're written with this much sincerity, they hit harder than I expected. After finishing the game, I remember Veronica sacrificing herself. I remember Sylvando marching across a literal post-apocalyptic wasteland just to bring people their smiles back. I remember Michelle's tragic love story and the gut-wrenching choice that came with it. These moments aren't some crazy narrative twists. What makes them stick with you is how emotionally honest they feel. That's why I've never bought the idea that JRPGs are "immature." Shaping how someone feels about courage, friendship, and kindness isn't childish work – it's noble work. Their emotional truth is no less meaningful because they're simple. Dragon Quest XI S gets that better than most modern games. Not every story needs to reinvent the wheel or blow your mind with complexity. Sometimes a story just needs to remind you why hope still matters. For kids, these games plant early seeds of courage and empathy. For adults, they quietly hand back something we lose along the way: the ability to believe in something sincerely. After 178 hours with this game, I realized something I didn't expect: Maybe nothing is more timeless than a story that truly believes the world is still worth saving.
The perfect Steam Deck game! DQ games have always kind of bored me a bit, but I had just finished a few action games and wanted a slower turn based RPG. To be fair it's not the mechanics, I love a good turn based RPG, but as I've gotten old it takes more to hook me in for the long haul. There has to be some magic, some charm, some decent writing, and strong gameplay. DQ XI has it, it's got the rizz, it slaps, it's fire, it's 6-7, it's got it all and it does it all extremely well. For background in the past couple years I've finished Octopath Traveler, Bravely Default, Tales of Arise (not quite turn based I know), Persona 5, Fire Emblem: Engage, and Yakuza: Like a Dragon to name a few. I dig RPGS and if I thought everyone had an interest in my back catalog I'd list the western RPGs too. Sometimes though, games will come along and look like everything I want, only to have that feeling where it never "clicks." I don't want things to get better 40 hours in, I don't want to waste 40 hours before I can settle for something being an experience I might enjoy. Probably sacrilegious to say, but that's how I feel about the entire Xenoblade series. On paper it looks great, I like mechs, post apocalyptic world, mech swords, some magic thrown in, touchstones on cultural revolutions and a corrupt ruling class. You'd think I'd like everything about it, but I just.... don't. I don't like the battles that feel one note, button mashing away as if nothing really matters. Are my actions doing anything? Do I really need to be here for this story? Oh look over there it's a quest... to go find some rocks. Oh look over there it's the same quest but now it's fetch this. DQ 11 looks like it shares the bones of standard RPGs when in fact it's standing on the mountain of dead bodies that paved the way for this beautiful ode to JRPGs. It's a love letter to gamers and within all it's nostalgia is a quiet evolution that never boasts, but pulls you in to every charming pixel and polygon. It isn't any one thing that makes DQ11 a masterpiece, but it's somehow greater than the sum of it's parts. The combat is excellent but starts out very basic, the overworld map is easy to understand, fast travel works well from the minute you unlock it, there's a horse too and that works perfectly fine (looking at you Roach!), everything is just fine. Then it builds... everything just keeps steamrolling forward. The story gets... interesting, it's not what you think and there's always another layer. The music from the start has it's own role to play as Square replaced all the MIDI tracks with the Tokyo Symphony. It's such a joy that you can just stop any time and listen to the music. The battles start to whip up, skill trees open, strategy becomes important, you'll have to determine who's in your party. Subtle choices of what path to take, which skills to upgrade, which gear to buy or craft, it all makes an impact on your progress. Finally, each locale is extraordinarily done and each becomes part of the tapestry of the story. Towns have always been important in an RPG but they managed to make them stand out as much as the characters in DQ11. I can't put it into words without spoiling much, but it is not simply bigger is better on display here. It's not larger towns you have to walking simulator your way through, but right from the first town they're part of the story. It's this gameplay loop of explore, battle, travel, story beat, repeat. You start seeing incredible writing unfold, it's serious, it's whimsy, it's heartfelt, it's funny, and you rock that gameplay loop because it's good. In no time at all, DQ11 starts hitting it's stride, in just a couple hours the story starts to slap and it does not let up. It's just beat after beat, like a rock concert where you can't believe the artist isn't going to take a break. There can't be this many songs in the set and there's zero filler, you don't even think about time passing because you're in it, you're enjoying it. That's DQXI. It's a steamroller that moves toward this crescendo and in the build up it crafts a world that begs you to stay just a little longer. One more quest, one more boss fight, one more piece of equipment and dear lord what the hell is going to happen next? Only one way to find out! ----- hardware notes ----- I played a TON of this game on Steam Deck, more than anywhere else. I played it docked (it runs great) and I played it in handheld mode, where it feels tailor made for the system. You can clock down to 10 TDP and bring the GPU down to 1200-1400MHZ and squeeze about 3 hours of battery life. More if you're willing to sacrifice settings, but I am not. It never dips below 45 FPS and I've got graphics maxed out except for shadows. I also turned anti-aliasing down because it just looks better imo. I also played a fair bit on my PC, an RTX 4070 rig with an i7. It really didn't make a difference, DQXI S is actually the Switch version of the game and they used all those assets when they re-launched it everywhere else. The advantage is the game is so well optimized it runs extremely well on just about any hardware that can handle it. I wasn't satisfied with that though, there's some easy mods called "project rebuild." It's a collection of community work trying to restore DQ11 to it's former glory when it first launched on PC. I think if you're going to invest time sitting down in front of a monitor it's totally worth it. I bumped up grass, player models, and textures and it does look glorious. Much more like a moving story book or a 3D Dragonball Z comic. That said, I didn't miss it when I'd switch back to the Steam Deck and that's not something I usually say. Like going between Cyberpunk 2077 PC vs Deck is a HUGE sacrifice. This is not, it's truly one of the best modern games you can play on the Steam Deck, if you're not too picky about frame rate you could probably just max out settings and you're good to go.
I’m not quite sure how to put this into words, but trust me when I say this game is an absolute must-play. If you can look past the 2D mode, the silent protagonist, and the somewhat dated UI, you’ll find a genuine masterpiece underneath. The character development for every party member is handled exceptionally well, making the entire journey feel deeply personal. This was my introduction to the Dragon Quest franchise, and it’s safe to say I’m now committed to experiencing the rest of the series. Visually and sonically, the game is top-tier. Even though the soundtrack can feel slightly repetitive, it rarely detracts from the overall experience. I should emphasize that the post-game content is easily the best I’ve seen in the entire JRPG genre. It avoids the typical trap of tedious side quests and excessive grinding, opting instead for a clever narrative twist that lets you "perfect" your journey. The final superboss is entirely optional, so feel free to skip it unless you are a completionist hunting for that Platinum. One small disclaimer: my total playtime is heavily inflated because I spent hours AFK at the Casino slots, not because the game requires that much grinding. Highly recommended!
It's good old-fashioned Dragon Quest but with QoL features and the best presentation yet. It is a very charming game with a surprisingly fun battle system where you can build your teammates in several ways. This game also features a "Draconian Quest" mode, which allows you to set restrictions upon yourself for a greater challenge. These restrictions can be lifted at any time, so if the game becomes too hard, you can fix that problem. Look into Project Rebuild to restore the old graphics, as this version was downgraded thanks to initially being a timed exclusive for the Switch. Even without that, the game still looks pretty good thanks to strong art direction.
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Frequently Asked Questions
DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.
No, DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 39.99€ on Steam.
Yes, DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition received 9,627 positive votes out of a total of 10,464 achieving a rating of 8.94.
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DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition was developed and published by Square Enix.
Yes, DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition is not playable on MacOS.
No, DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition is not playable on Linux.
Yes, DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
Yes, DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition is playable on Steam Machine, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
No, DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition does not support VR.
DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition is a single-player game.
No, DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition does not currently offer any DLC.
No, DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Yes, DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition supports Remote Play on Tablet. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Yes, DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Online players
936
Developer
Square Enix
Publisher
Square Enix
Release
04 Dec 2020
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Remote Play
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