20 Most Anticipated Video Games Of 2024
9. Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail
Platforms: Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, PC
Final Fantasy XIV's development may well go down as the greatest comeback story in video game history.
After being pronounced DOA in 2010, FFXIV relaunched in 2013 as a radically overhauled beast and, over the course of the next eight years, blossomed into the most popular MMO on the planet due to the strength of its mechanics, the constant content-drops from its hard-working devlopers, and an eight-year saga so well-told it made one games journalist cry eighteen times.
Dawntrail, then, has a lot to live up to. But after eight years of dizzying success, it's hard to see the next entry in the Final Fantasy XIV saga being anything but a good time - especially as that's the entire theme of the expansion.
Developer Naoki Yoshida described Dawntrail as a "beach vacation", and the trailer certainly bore that out by showing FFXIV's lovable cast chilling out in the new land of Tural. FFXIV's writers have excelled at creating a cast of characters you'd love to hang out and unwind with, and the chance to do just that means Tural will be many a gamers' holiday destination this Summer.