Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past, is a 2000 role-playing video game developed by Heartbeat Another remake, entitled Dragon Quest VII Reimagined, was released for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on February 5, 2026.

The game follows the Hero and his friends as they discover secrets about the mysterious islands surrounding their home of Estard. Through some ancient ruins, they are transported to the pasts of various islands and must defeat evil in each new location. Game mechanics are largely unchanged from previous games in the series, although an extensive Class system allows players to customize their characters.

Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past is the seventh installment of the popular Dragon Quest series of role playing games, and is the successor to 1995's Dragon Quest VI for the Super Famicom. An immediate success upon release, Dragon Warrior VIIs sales totalled 4.06 million by April 6, 2001, making it the best-selling PlayStation game in Japan, Enix cited the larger potential market and lower cost of manufacturing CDs as the reasons for the change of platform. By 2000, Dragon Quest VII was predicted to be so successful in Japan that it would "create a 50 billion yen effect on the Japanese economy", said research firm DIHS. A free demo was released on January 7, 2026.

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Soundtrack

As with nearly every Dragon Quest game, Koichi Sugiyama composed the musical score. As was done for Dragon Quest VI, the original sound version was bundled with the symphonic suite in a two-disc set called Dragon Quest VII: Eden no Senshitachi Symphonic Suite + OST. It was illustrated by Kamui Fujiwara, who previously worked on another manga for the franchise, Dragon Quest: The Mark of Erdick.

| GR = PS: 81% Shipments of Dragon Quest VII reached four million copies on January 5, 2001, and the game became the sixth best-seller video game of all platforms in Japan at that time. Worldwide, shipments of the game surpassed 4.1 million units as of March 2003.

Sales of the Nintendo 3DS remake exceeded 800,000 copies the first week in Japan. Famitsu rated the remake a 35/40, praising the new orchestrated score as well as the improved graphics, intro and first dungeon.

  • Official Japanese Dragon Quest VII 3DS website