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Square Enix will shut down two Dragon Quest mobile games at the end of July 2024. The titles in question will be Dragon Quest Champions and Dragon Quest Keshi Keshi. The company made the announcements simultaneously on the respective official X s for Champions and Keshi Keshi on May 23, 2024, at 3pm JST (2am ET).

Dragon Quest Champions is a turn-based command battle RPG with a PvP mode that is reminiscent of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Square Enix employed help from Koei Tecmo's Omega Force, which is best known for Dynasty Warriors and Dragon Quest Heroes. Square Enix held a beta test in February 2023, but it actually released the game on June 13, 2023. That means Dragon Quest Champions has still yet to reach its first anniversary when the company announced its closure.

Dragon Quest Keshi Keshi is also a collaborative project, but Square Enix did it with NHN PlayArt of LINE: Disney Tsum Tsum fame. As implied by the Japanese title that means "Erase Erase," this game features the series' heroic characters as rubber erasers, and they are tasked to exterminate doodles made by an evil pen. As the game came out in Japan on December 1, 2021, it will have a longer total lifespan of exactly two years and eight months.

Dragon Quest Champions will remain available until July 30, 2024, and Dragon Quest Keshi Keshi will close the day after on July 31, 2024. Both Dragon Quest games have been playable on Android and iOS mobile devices in Japan.

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During the live stream that Square Enix announced on January 11, 2023, Square Enix revealed Dragon Quest Champions. This title will be both a single-player and multiplayer game and is a t effort with Koei Tecmo. There will be a story mode, as well as a tournament mode, and the mobile game will use a turn-based battle system just like mainline Dragon Quest entries.

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In Dragon Quest Champions, you can form a party of three characters. During the live stream, you can watch how the game and field looks. There seems to be an open world and towns that you can run around and explore in. The story is a fairly simple one. The Protagonist’s father has gone missing, and so they decide to enter a Hero Fighting Tournament to look for him. You can choose between a male or a female protagonist.

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As for the PvP tournament mode, it is a brawl comprising of up to fifty players. You fight against them until you are the last one. There is also a rank system as well, and you will only play against players in the same league and around the same class. You start from Bronze III and the maximum is Gold I. What your level is in the tournament mode will reflect what it is in the story mode.

Like PUBG, you will drop down from the sky and decide where you want to land. As you wander around the battlefield, you can collect items that will raise your stats, as well as fight against monsters to earn experience spheres. If you encounter a player in combat with a monster, you can also hop in and turn it into a three-way battle. Collecting experience will help you power up your party for fights against actual people. Each match in tournament mode takes around 15 to 20 minutes.

Dragon Quest Champions is in development for mobile devices, and it will hold a beta test from February 6 to 13, 2023. There is no release date yet.

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