Final Fantasy is gearing up for a very busy 2027. Back in April at the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in Anaheim, Square Enix revealed the official trailer for the wildly popular MMORPG’s latest expansion, Evercold, which will take the Warrior of Light and their companions beyond the Source to the icy wastes of the Fourth. Players won’t have to wait long to jump in either, as it launches at the beginning of the year in January. Last month’s Summer Game Fest, then, surprised attendees and audiences with an extended preview of Final Fantasy VII: Revelation, the final chapter in the Final Fantasy VII Remake saga, and revealed a surprisingly near release window in Spring.
While both games figure to keep fans occupied for hundreds of hours between them, that’s not all Square Enix has planned for their legendary franchise next year. The company is currently at Anime Expo 2026, where it showed off its upcoming slate of English book and manga localizations coming in early 2027. Among those were two new Final Fantasy titles that will take place in Midgar and Eorzea and follow a few fan-favorite characters. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: Dear Destiny is a novel sequel to Traces of Two Pasts, which followed Tifa Lockhart and Aerith Gainsborough as they shared stories while journeying with Cloud and the rest of the party, while Final Fantasy XIV Picture Book: Me and the Cornservant offers a lighthearted adventure for all ages with the titular Cornservant. Penned by Kazushige Nojima, the former was actually released in Japan at the start of 2026, but this will be a chance for English readers to dive in ahead of Revelation‘s release.
Picking up where its predecessor left off, Dear Destiny is split into two parts: One is told by Tifa as she wrestles with the memories of her hometown of Nibelheim’s destruction and recalls the difficult balance of getting by at Seventh Heaven in Midgar while trying to evade detection by the Turks as they investigate the eco-terrorist group, Avalanche. Aerith’s stories make up the other part, as she remembers how she found a place selling flowers in Midgar and the worries she felt waiting for Zach’s return. It’ll be a continued illustration of how they got to where they are, and the friendship the two formed on the journey to save the planet. Additionally, another prequel story following Cloud in his days as a Shinra trooper will be included as a bonus.
Collider Exclusive · Universe Personality Quiz Which Iconic Universe Do You Belong in the Most? Star Wars · Lord of the Rings · Harry Potter · Game of Thrones · Star Trek
Five legendary universes. Five completely different visions of what the world could be — or already was. One of them is the world your instincts, your values, and your particular way of existing were built for. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🚀Star Wars
💍Lord of the Rings
🧙Harry Potter
👑Game of Thrones
🖖Star Trek
01
What gives your life its deepest sense of meaning? Every universe is built around a different answer to this question.
02
Which kind of world do you most want to inhabit? The environment shapes who you become. Choose carefully.
03
How do you prefer your conflicts resolved? The shape of a world’s conflicts tells you everything about its soul.
04
Who do you want beside you when things get difficult? Your ideal companions reveal the world you were made for.
05
What is your relationship with power? How you seek, wield, or resist power is the map of who you are.
06
How does your universe treat good and evil? A world’s moral architecture tells you more about it than any map.
07
What role would you naturally fall into? Every universe has archetypes. Which one fits you without trying?
08
What do you ultimately believe about the future? The answer to this is the clearest window into which universe already lives inside you.
Your Universe Has Been Chosen You Belong In…
Your answers point to the iconic universe your values, your instincts, and your particular way of seeing the world were built for. This is where you would find your people — and your purpose.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
You believe in the cause — in the idea that freedom is worth fighting for even when the odds are impossible and the empire is vast.
You are drawn to the moral clarity of a universe where hope itself is a form of resistance.
You’d find your people in the Rebellion — a ragtag coalition of true believers held together by conviction more than resources.
Star Wars is fundamentally a story about ordinary people choosing to matter in an extraordinary conflict — and that is exactly your kind of story.
The Force may or may not be with you. But the will to use it for something larger than yourself certainly is.
Middle-earth
Lord of the Rings
You understand, in the deepest part of yourself, that the journey matters as much as the destination — and that the world’s beauty is worth protecting even at great cost.
Middle-earth is a world of ancient wonder, deep friendship, and a darkness that only retreats when enough small acts of courage accumulate.
You would thrive here because you value the fellowship more than the glory — the road more than the arrival.
Tolkien’s universe rewards patience, loyalty, and the willingness to carry something heavy across a very long distance.
Those are not burdens to you. They are simply how you move through the world.
The Wizarding World
Harry Potter
You believe that love, loyalty, and doing what’s right are not naive sentiments — they are the most powerful forces in any world, magical or otherwise.
The Wizarding World is a place of wonder hidden in plain sight, where learning is transformative and the bonds you form at school follow you into every battle.
You would flourish here because you take both the magic and the friendships seriously — and you understand that one without the other is incomplete.
Harry Potter’s universe ultimately rewards those who choose to stand for something even when standing is terrifying.
That choice — made quietly, without guarantee — is something you understand completely.
Westeros · The Known World
Game of Thrones
You see the world clearly — its power structures, its hypocrisies, its brutal arithmetic — and you are not paralysed by that clarity. You use it.
Westeros is a world that rewards intelligence, adaptability, and the willingness to understand that every alliance is also a negotiation.
You would survive here — possibly thrive here — because you don’t confuse the world as it is with the world as you’d like it to be.
Game of Thrones is a story about what happens when the idealists and the realists collide. You are sharp enough to know which one lasts longer.
Winter always comes. You are already prepared.
The United Federation of Planets
Star Trek
You believe the future is worth building — that curiosity, cooperation, and the expansion of understanding are not just ideals but the most practical path forward for any civilisation.
Star Trek is a universe where the questions matter as much as the answers, and where encountering something utterly alien is cause for wonder rather than fear.
You would belong here because you are fundamentally optimistic about what intelligence and decency can achieve — while being honest about how hard that achievement is.
The Federation is the universe’s most ambitious thought experiment: what if we actually got better?
You don’t just hope that’s possible. You think it’s the only thing worth working toward.
‘Final Fantasy XIV’s New Picture Book Explores a Small But Beloved Character
Me and the Cornservant, meanwhile, is the latest picture book set in Eorzea following The Namazu and the Greatest Gift, and it was created by the official FFXIV development team. Main Scenario Writer Banri Oda penned the story, while Naoki Ikushima and Rina Yoshiura handled the illustrations. For context, the Cornservant is a tiny, living corncob creature encountered in a series of sidequests during the Dawntrail expansion that players can accompany on a journey to feed the hungry of Tuliyollal and beyond, and bring along with them as a little minion. In the book, the corn-being meets a young Miqo’te who, believing the creature to be lonely, gives it a little poke, beginning an unexpected adventure. It’s a much simpler, smaller-scale tale that embraces the whimsy of FFXIV‘s reality rather than exploring the world-ending threats or more complicated political dealings that are present within.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: Dear Destiny is currently available for pre-order at the official Square Enix website, Penguin Random House, and other major book retailers ahead of its release in January. Final Fantasy XIV Picture Book: Me and the Cornservantwill open for pre-orders in mid-July before releasing in April. Get a look at official art from both books above.
