NoobFeed writer Jake Skudder looks at the state of turn-based RPG games in 2020 following the success of Final Fantasy VII Remake.
Final Fantasy VII 1997 exceeds 15.5 million units sold worldwide as of February 2026, reinforcing its legacy as the series best selling title.
I’d love to know how many units have been sold of all the Final Fantasy VII franchise games, including the original, the remakes, spin offs such as Crisis Core, and mobile games Ever Crisis. I bet a fair few copies.
Modern day publisher be like: "Failed to meet sales expectations. Pivoting to live service."
It's an absolute legend of a game. And I honestly really love how the remake trilogy is shaping up so far.
Final Fantasy 7 is one of the most iconic video games of all time, with it helping to changed the RPG landscape when it was released in 1997.
If you already own it... There, I saved you the click on a deliberately misleading article.
I bought the game yesterday on steam for $4 because Square Enix is trying to replace it with a version that has no mod support.
Prior to yesterday, I had no idea the game had so many great mods until people started making a fuss out of it.
u get the switch 1 version of the og ff7 for free if you own 7 remake for the switch 2.
lol.
But BG2 didn't emerge in a vacuum, and in a recent chat with Slandered Gaming it emerged that—while we can thank BG2 for a lot of our favourite RPGs since—we have a whole other game to thank for BG2. That'd be Final Fantasy 7, which lit a fire under BG2 director James Ohlen to go all out with the game's structure and companions, per Trent Oster—who worked on the original Baldur's Gate and has since become CEO of Beamdog, the studio behind the BG1 and BG2 Enhanced Editions.
Baldurs Gate 1&2 were my games back in the day on PC. Icewindale and Neverwinter Nights as well
Ima keep this simple and just say no
Both battle styles can easily coexist as they have for decades prior
Persona 5 Royal says different
"The original Final Fantasy VII sold in excess of 9 million. NINE MILLION COPIES. That puts FFVII just behind Gran Turismo as the second biggest game of the PlayStation 1 era.
When is the last time that a turn-based RPG game reached those sorts of heights? Well, FF8, FF10 and FF12 sold a huge amount of copies during their lifespan, with Final Fantasy 10 selling around 8 million units, making it the 5th biggest game on PlayStation 2.
But what about right now? What turn-based RPG games really top the charts in the same way that these classics did?"
This is an unfair argument against other turn based role playing games. I can turn this around and say how many action JRPG games sell that many copies in the west? The answer is none. Final Fantasy will always sell well because of it's name and the amount of marketing that goes with it. If Final Fantasy 7 Remake was turn based, it would still have sold as well as it has done.
As for turn based rpg's not topping the charts anymore, the person writing this article answers his own quetsion. It was only Final Fantasy that was topping those charts before, well, Final Fantasy and Pokemon to be more accurate. Turn based and action based JRPG's in general don't sell as massively as these two series in the west. I personally think that is down to marketing, no other JRPG series get's the same level of marketing as these two do.
I wonder how much better Persona 5 would have done and Dragon Quest XI if those games had received the same level of marketing that the latest Final Fantasy and Pokemon games received.
Pretty sure darkest dungeon isn't dead, there's a sequel coming out and that's just one turned based RPG that's coming.
Wasteland 3 comes out in a couple months and Persona 5 Royal just came out