Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii has confirmed Dragon Quest 12: The Flames of Fate has not been canceled.
Dragon Quest 12 was announced as part of the series’ 35th anniversary celebration back in 2021, signalling the first mainline entry since 2017’s Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age. It’s been pretty quiet ever since, however; the last we heard about Dragon Quest 12 was in February, when Horii broke his silence to say the development team at Square Enix is “working hard” and information about the game will be released “little by little.”
And he wasn’t wrong. Since then it’s been complete radio silence, but in a new interview with Gamereactor, Horii has once again popped up to reassure fans everything is still on track.
“Yes, indeed, I can’t say anything, I apologize,” he said. “I am making it, putting lots of work into it… I can only say that the next work will be great too, [I’m] working really hard. Please look forward to it is the only thing I can say.”
While perhaps not quite as reassuring as a trailer or even some screenshots, this should at least come as a relief to fans who’d worried Dragon Quest 12 might have been canceled amid restructuring at Square Enix and a lack up updates.
In May 2024 Horii noted the deaths of Dragon Quest character designer Akira Toriyama and composer Koichi Sugiyama. The series’ lead producer Yu Miyake had by that point already stepped down from his position to lead Square Enix’s mobile game division.
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