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DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition

2020

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Engaging story and characters
  • Large immersive world to explore
  • Classic turn-based combat with strategic depth
  • Extensive content and replayability
  • Highly polished presentation and music

Things to keep in mind

  • Slow pacing in early acts
  • Repetitive music tracks
  • Some grind required
  • Graphics downgraded in definitive edition (fixable with mods)
  • Limited social or multiplayer features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Nexomon: Extinction

  • FINAL FANTASY VI

  • Monster Hunter Stories

  • DRAGON QUEST VII Reimagined

  • 河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu ： The Books of Dragon)

  • Summoner

More violent

Games that feels like DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition but with more combat and destruction

  • The Alliance Alive HD Remastered

  • GRANDIA II HD Remaster

  • BRAVELY DEFAULT II

  • Eternal Radiance

  • Etrian Odyssey HD

  • Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition but with less leadership over others

  • Eternal Edge+ Prologue

  • Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim

  • WitchSpring R

  • Fabled Lands

  • Trials of Mana

  • Visions of Mana

More fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition but with a stronger sense of community

  • Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition

  • Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky DX

  • Rune Factory 5

  • Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk DX

  • Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition

  • Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection

More intimate

Games that feels like DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition but with more focus on close relationships

  • Brave Alchemist Colette

  • Sister Travel

  • FINAL FANTASY IX

  • Monochrome Mobius: Rights and Wrongs Forgotten

  • GRANDIA HD Remaster

  • Sakura Gozen

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DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence.

Last update: 06/08/2026