Square Enix has had a bit of an up and down year in 2024. One of those highs has been the recent HD Remake of Dragon Quest III both critically and commercially and we now have more confirmation of that.
Today Square Enix announced that Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake has surpassed 2 million sales since its release November 14th, 2024. That is likely a fantastic number for the company when it comes to a Remake like this and includes both digital sales and physical sales. According to Famitsu sales charts the game has sold just shy of 1 million units physically in Japan alone with 742,918 on the Nintendo Switch and 212,853 on the PlayStation 5.
Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake is one of the first games Square Enix has released since they had announced they are going to take a more multiplatform approach with their games. How that has affected these sales figures remains to be seen, but the fact that the game is on Xbox as well as PlayStation and Nintendo platforms certainly won’t hurt.
An overview of Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake via Square Enix press release:
Acclaimed by critics all over the world, Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake is a complete remake of Dragon Quest III (originally released in 1988), now featuring the HD-2D graphic style, a unique blend of pixel art and 3D graphics. The story and the series’ familiar turn-based command battles remain true to the original, but Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake also includes a variety of additional elements, including voiced event scenes, orchestral music, a new “Monster Wrangler” vocation, the “Monster Arena” feature for extra challenges and new story episodes featuring Ortega, the protagonist’s father.
Additionally, the classic Dragon Quest III story fans know and love, which is chronologically first in the “Erdrick Trilogy,” has been refined to better tie-in to the events of Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake. Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake is planned for release next year.
