On May 2, 2025 at Comicon Naples 2025, Yuji Horii appeared at a Dragon Quest alongside Basiscape composer Gabriele “Richter” Negro. According to multiple attendees who posted on social media sites like Reddit, such as Kaguya Shinomiya who shared a video and The Fishy One who shared an initial , he allegedly mentioned a Chrono Trigger remake, however an AnimeClickIt stream showed this was a mistranslation. Square Enix hasn’t confirmed any new take on the SNES game yet. [Thanks, AnimeClickIt and Gematsu!] (Editor’s Note: Updated at 9:40pm ET on May 2, 2025.)

Allegedly, Yuji Horii brought up a potential and possible Chrono Trigger remake as an aside during the , which was intended to focus on the Dragon Quest series. However, updated footage showed it wasn’t what it seemed.

Here’s the embedded video from AnimeClickIT the moment at the event:

The original version of Chrono Trigger appeared on the SNES, and Yuji Horii was one of the writers who helped create it. It later appeared on the PlayStation and DS worldwide as well, with the DS version including new content. Mobile ports launched in 2011, and a PC one debuted in 2018. 

While it hasn’t appeared in quite some time, we did see its follow-up not long ago. Square Enix released Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Editionon the Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC in 2022. That included the first English release of Radical Dreamers.

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The Steam Spring Sale can often be overwhelming, with thousands of titles slashed in price, it can be hard to figure out which games are a good deal. There is also the problem of choice, and gamers don’t want to spend their hard earned cash on a game they don’t like. If you’re an RPG fan, then we’ve rounded up ten of the best RPGs in the Steam Spring Sale that are worth both your time and money.

Here are our recommendations for the best value RPGs in the Steam Spring Sale.

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Chrono Trigger is one of the best games of all time, and while the Steam version isn’t the best, this Steam Spring Sale discount is still a bargain. One of the most iconic turn-based RPGs, Chrono Trigger is about exploring time periods, and getting dragged into a quest far bigger than yourself. With seven recruitable characters, and 12 different endings, Chrono Trigger set up many features that great RPGs use to this day.

Chrono Trigger is available for $3.74 until the end of the Steam Spring Sale.

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All of the Yakuza games are available during the Steam Spring Sale, but we recommend Yakuza 0 as a starting point if you haven’t played anything from the series. Yakuza 0 is not only chronologically the first game in the series, telling the back story to two of the series’ main characters Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima, but it’s also one of the best. This action RPG series is one that every RPG fan should try.

Yakuza 0 costs just $10.99 during the Steam Spring Sale.

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Like the Yakuza series, the modern Persona series including recent releases like Persona 3 Reload and Metaphor: ReFantazio, are all available during the Steam Spring Sale, but we’re recommending Persona 4 Golden. It’s one of the lesser played games in the series as it was a PlayStation Vita exclusive for almost a decade, and as all Persona games are standalone stories, it’s a great place to dive in. This turn-based RPG asks you to strengthen your friendships to unlock your true power.

Persona 4 Golden can be bought for just $11.99 during the Steam Spring Sale.

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This one is more expensive than most games on this list, but it also includes four Kingdom Hearts games and two movies. Another classic RPG series, Kingdom Hearts blends Final Fantasy and Disney characters in an action RPG with a completely unique battle system. The Remix collection includes the first two mainline games as well as Birth By Sleep, Re:chain of Memories, and a cutscene collection from 358/2, and Re:coded. It’s a great starting point in the series.

Kingdom Hearts 1.5 + 2.5 Remix costs $29.99 until the end of the Steam Spring Sale.  

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When it comes to classic RPGs there isn’t anything more iconic than Final Fantasy VII. You can also purchase the remakes during the Steam Spring Sale, but the original game is available at an incredible price. Take on the epic adventure, which sees Cloud and his clan travel across the continent, visiting different towns and cultures, and discovering who the true enemy is along the way, with a deep turn-based battle system.

The original Final Fantasy VII is just $4.79 during the Steam Spring Sale.

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If you like RPGs that challenge your preconceptions, and break the fourth wall with unexpected twists, then action RPG Nier: Automata is for you. Not only does it look gorgeous even with its fast-paced combat system, but it combines this with its well-built world, and engaging storyline. With multiple endings that require multiple playthroughs to see them all, Nier: Automata asks you to question what you believe about the genre.

Nier: Automata costs just $15.99 during the Steam Spring Sale.

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A gorgeous 2DHD remake of a classic turn-based RPG, Live A Live tells eight separate stories across different time periods, protagonists, and gaming genres, before they all align for one final adventure. Live A Live is a fighting game, a tower defense game, a stealth game, and a visual novel as well as an RPG, and it blends everything together beautifully and seamlessly. A must-play older game that everyone should experience.

Live A Live is available for $19.99 until the end of the Steam Spring Sale.

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A more modern game than most on this list – hence the price – we’ve added Lies of P as our soulslike of choice as it’s a great entry point for this subsection of the RPG genre. Far more story heavy than other soulslike games, Lies of P tells a steampunk Pinocchio story with challenging combat, and choices that have major outcomes on the story.

Lies of P is on sale for $35.99 during the Steam Spring Sale.

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Starting in 1989, there are few series that are as long-lasting as The Legend of Heroes, and almost all of these games are on offer as part of the Steam Spring Sale. Trails of Cold Steel is one of the best games to jump into as it includes a four game story arc with a satisfying start and end. Once you get into the turn-based RPG series there are so many other games to explore that your wallet might just regret grabbing this first game.

Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel currently costs $19.99 during the Steam Spring Sale.

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One of the most popular RPGs from the PS3 era, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch combines whimsical storytelling, and the gorgeous art style of Studio Ghibli. Evocative voice acting brings the whole world to life as you feel as if you are living in a Ghibli movie while playing this turn-based RPG. This is the perfect game if you’re looking for somewhere whimsical to get lost in and escape.

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch costs $7.49 during the Steam Spring Sale.

The Steam Spring Sale is on now, and ends on March 20.

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Square Enix announced that the company is planning various projects to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Chrono Trigger. The company did not offer any further details on what these projects will entail.

The announcement post mentioned that the anniversary celebration projects will appear over the next year. Furthermore, the company specified that these projects will be outside of the realm of video game, so we shouldn’t see any major video game announcements for the anniversary celebration.

More information about the Chrono Trigger anniversary projects will appear in the game’s official social media s, as well as the official Square Enix social media. As a side note, the official Square Enix misspelled the Chrono Trigger release year as 1985, with the game’s official correcting this mistake in its own announcement post.

March 11, 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Chrono Trigger in Japan. It is a game created as a collaboration between Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii, Dragon Ball manga author Akira Toriyama, and Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. It first debuted on the Super Nintendo worldwide, before eventually being ported to other platforms.

Chrono Trigger is readily available on PC via Steam, Android, and iOS devices. The game originally released on March 11, 1995 for Super Famicom, and it also received PlayStation and Nintendo DS re-releases.

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Square Enix released a compilation album featuring piano covers of fifteen songs from its games worldwide. While the album originally appeared in Japan, the company is also making it available on its North American and European stores via imports from the former. The album is available for purchase at ¥2,750 / $20.99 / €17.99.

This album contains piano renditions of tracks from various mainline Final Fantasy entries, but it also includes music from Square Enix's other game franchises. Chrono Trigger and NieR Gestalt / Replicant also have two tracks each. Single tracks from Xenogears, Live A Live, Secret of Mana, and SaGa Frontier 2 complete the lineup.

Here is the complete track list for this album filled with Square Enix songs from games:

1. "Eternal Wind" from Final Fantasy III
2. "Battle at the Big Bridge" from Final Fantasy V
3. "The Man with the Machine Gun" from Final Fantasy VIII
4. "Melodies Of Life ～Final Fantasy" from Final Fantasy IX
5. "Fight With Seymour" from Final Fantasy X
6. "Blinded By Light" from Final Fantasy XIII
7. "Heartless" from Final Fantasy XVI
8. "Soaring" from Xenogears
9. "Corridors of Time" from Chrono Trigger
10. "Chrono Trigger" from Chrono Trigger
11. "Megalomania" from Live A Live
12. "Roman" from SaGa Frontier 2
13. "Meridian Dance" from Secret of Mana
14. "Song of the Ancients" from NieR Gestalt and Replicant 
15. "The Dark Colossus Destroys All" from NieR Gestalt and Replicant 

The Piano Cover Collection from Square Enix Music Channel album is now available for purchase worldwide.

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I was approached to create something new. Chrono Trigger was based on time travel. So when I thought about doing something different this time, I decided to make a game using parallel worlds. Basically, I hate repeating something I’ve done before. I like trying my hand at something new, something I’ve never attempted before. In that sense, if I had to play a game or make a game, I wanted to see what I could construct with parallel worlds. I thought about what I wanted to do next. And it made clear sense to me to go with parallel worlds.

The preparation stage before making the game is the most fun. “We could do this!” “I’d like to try that!” Daydreaming and coming up with ideas are the most enjoyable part. You don’t think about the hard work at that stage. You just impulsively and continuously expand your ideas. Like, “We could do this! Or, “This would be awesome!” Then actually having to transfer that into data drives you to tears. “Whose idea was this?” “I wish I’d never suggested this!” “Stupid me!” Every single time I drive myself to despair having to actually make it. There was a huge volume of character speech. There are two worlds, so two versions of each NPC each leading a different life. That’s what we had to create. I didn’t realize that when we were brainstorming. But I wound up driving myself to tears as I typed in all the text.

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• "Peaceful Days"
• "Frog's Theme"
• "Lavos' Theme"
• "Robo's Theme"
• "The Brink of Time"
• "Battle with Magus"
• "Schala's Theme"
• "Chrono and Marle ~Far Off Promise~"
• "World Revolution"
• "Outskirts of Time"
• "Chrono Trigger"

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Even more of Square Enix’s music catalog is being made available to a wider audience. If people head over to Spotify, they can now listen to the Chrono Trigger Original Soundtrack and Chrono Cross Original Soundtrack. (Thanks, Resetera!)

Each one of the soundtracks is immediately available with the Yasunori Mitsuda-composed songs. Chrono Trigger Original Soundtrack has 78 tracks taken from the game, while the Chrono Cross one has 67. In addition, the eight-track Chrono Trigger & Chrono Cross Arrangement Album, To Far Away Times, is also available through the streaming service with Mitsuda songs performed by Millennial Fair.

Earlier this year, Square Enix made another large assortment of songs available to fans. Over 60 Final Fantasy soundtracks were added to Spotify. Also, Capcom Sound Track albums were added back in February 2019.

Chrono Trigger is available on the Super NES, PlayStation, DS, PC, and mobile devices. Chrono Cross is available on the PlayStation.

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Famitsu magazine has a special feature this week commemorating its 1600th volume, and with it comes a 40-page spread on the “wonderful world of video game music,” where readers voted their favorite songs. Between June 26, 2019 to July 3, 2019, a total of 1,547 readers submitted their votes for their favorite one song from all video games.   Below are the top-5 tracks that was revealed by Famitsu:   #5 “Wind Scene” – Chrono Trigger (19 Votes) Platform: Super Famicom Company: Square Enix (then Square) Release: March 11, 1995   #4 “Clash on the Big Bridge” – Final Fantasy V (21 Votes) Platform: Super Famicom Company: Square Enix (then Square) Release: December 6, 1992   #3 “To Zanarkand” – Final Fantasy X (24 Votes) Platform: PlayStation 2 Company: Square Enix (then Square) Release: July 19, 2001

• “I always feel like crying when I hear this song near the ending.” (Female, 20s)

  #2 “Time’s Scar” – Chrono Cross (25 Votes) Platform: PlayStation Company: Square Enix (then Square) Release: November 18, 1999

• “Together with the opening video, it feels as though grand fates are about to intersect.” (Male, 30s)

  #1 “The Sun Rises” – Okami (50 Votes) Platform: PlayStation 2 Company: Capcom Release: April 20, 2006

• “It’s such a Japanese song that it makes my chest burn with pride.” (Male, 20s)
• “A powerful song that illuminates the path to a fierce battle, truly a ‘rising sun’.” (Male, 40s)

  Back in April, Famitsu readers voted on their top-20 games of the Heisei period (Jan 8, 1989 to May 1, 2019) which you can check out here.   Food for thought: It’s pretty awesome seeing #5 to #2 taken by Square games only to have #1 taken by Capcom with Okami’s magnificent track with double the votes of second place.

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Square Enix has announced new tributes to Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross on Twitter. Chrono Orchestra will allow people to pick up CDs with orchestral arrangements of songs from both games on September 7, 2019. An additional tweet said concerts with the songs will be held in Japan on September 7, 2019 in Osaka and October 27, 2019 in Tokyo.

The Chrono Orchestra Arrangement Box offers songs supervised by Yasunori Mitsuda, who originally composed and produced the Chrono series’ songs. People could pick up Chrono Trigger Orchestral Arrangement or Chrono Cross Orchestral Arrangement for 3,300円 (~$31) each. Each one has eight songs. The full 8,000円 (~$74) box includes both of those CDs and an exclusive additional one with four extra songs. Its official website is now open.

The Chrono Orchestra website is also open and offers some information on the performances. The two Osaka concerts will be performed by the Japan Century Symphony Orchestra at Osaka International Congress Center. They will be held at 12:30pm JST and 5pm JST on September 7, 2019. The Tokyo concert will be performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra at Pacifico Yokohama National Grand Hall on October 27, 2019. Its noon and night performances will also be held at 12:30pm JST and 5pm JST. Mitsuda will appear. The Chrono Seat ticket option, which is 13,800円 (~$128), comes with a set of two music boxes. These have Kid and Marle on them.

Chrono Trigger is available on the SNES, PlayStation, Nintendo DS, PC, and mobile devices. Chrono Cross is available on the PlayStation, as well as on the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation Vita as a PSOne Classic.

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Chrono Cross is getting its own Original Soundtrack Revival Disc this August following Chrono Trigger’s that releases next month. Square Enix shared some samples in a new trailer for the OST Revival Disc featuring music by Yasunori Mitsuda.   Similar to the other Revival Discs, the Chrono Cross OST Revival invites fans to relive memories through in-game scene videos along with music from the game, all on a Blu-ray disc. This album in particular has music that Yasunori Mitsuda re-recorded from the PlayStation and mastered from scratch, so the sound is much better than the original soundtrack version.   It also includes the MP3 files of the music tracks so you can listen to it on other devices, and a full-colored booklet with notes from Yasunori Mitsuda for you to check out. It has 67 tracks and is going for 5,000 yen plus tax in Japan. It is currently available for pre-order in North America for $49.99 at the Square Enix Store.   Chrono Cross Original Soundtrack Revival Disc releases on August 7, 2019.   Chrono Cross first released for the PlayStation in Japan in November 1999. The game has since then been re-released for the PlayStation Network as a PSONe Classic title for PS3, PS Vita, and PSP.

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Between Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, the Chrono seris has shipped 5.5 million units with digital sales included since releasing in 1995. Revisit the classic SNES RPG in a trailer for the Soundtrack Revival Disc that was announced last month.   As previously detailed, the “revival” album lets you relive your memories with in-game scenes playing as a video with music from the original game. Also included are MP3 files of the music tracks so you can listen to it on  your laptop, smartphone, and more. The OST also comes with a booklet containing liner notes from composer Yasunori Mitsuda.   The Chrono Trigger Original Soundtrack Revival Disc is now available to pre-order in Japan at the Square Enix e-Store, Amazon Japan, Tower Records Online, Yodobashi, and Rakuten Books for 5,000 yen plus tax. It releases it releases on July 10, 2019.   It is also available to pre-order via the Square Enix Store in North America for $49.99 and in Europe for €39.99.   Here’s the full track list:   Chrono Trigger first released in Japan on March 11, 1995 for the Super Famicom. It has since then been ported to the PlayStation, Nintendo DS, iOS, Android, and PC.

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As Japan makes way to transition into the new Reiwa period, Famitsu recently held a poll for its readers to vote for their favorite games that released in the Heisei period (Jan 8, 1989 – May 1, 2019), and this week’s issue of the magazine has revealed the full top-20 list. [Thanks, Ryokutya2089.]   Below are the top-20 titles that were voted in by 7,158 Famitsu readers:

• 1. Chrono Trigger
• 2. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• 3. NieR: Automata
• 4. Final Fantasy VII
• 5. Okami
• 6. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• 7. Final Fantasy X
• 8. Pokémon Red/Green/Blue/Yellow
• 9. Dragon Quest V
• 10. Xenogears
• 11. Vainglory
• 12. Suikoden II
• 13. Mother 2 (Earthbound)
• 14. Splatoon 2
• 15. Tactics Ogre
• 16. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Monster Hunter Freedom Unite)
• 17. Kingdom Hearts
• 17. (tie) Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
• 19. Final Fantasy XV
• 20. Final Fantasy XI
• 20. (tie) Pokémon Diamond & Pearl

    While we don’t have the number of votes for the full list, it is mentioned that Chrono Trigger’s #1 place happened thanks to the overwhelming from fans in their 30s. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild placed #2 in overall votes, but was actually the top-voted title for readers in their 40s. Meanwhile, NieR: Automata mostly got its votes from readers in their teens and 20s, and was actually #1 most voted title for those age groups.   It’s also worth noting that Vainglory by Super Evil Megacorp snuck its way onto the list as the only Western-developed game, which is a bit of a head-scratcher looking at its company but let’s not forget that it’s mostly a list made to have fun with the Famitsu readers, so it shouldn’t be taken too seriously.   You can check our previous report for more details on the top-3 titles with some comments from fans.

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