Square Enix's Dragon Quest Series Has Now Sold Over 88 Million Units Worldwide

I've played 4 and 11 (enjoyed them both a lot!). I've got 5, 6, and 9 but I haven't started any of those yet. I really wonder where that remake for Dragon quest 3 is 🤔

And I hope it keeps going! I have played (and own) the entire mainline series (1-11) but haven’t beaten 9,10 or 11 yet. Loved both Builders games and the musou games and the slime mori mori games. Need to start Treasures. Can’t wait for infinity strash and DQM3.

Dragon Quest Treasure is a great game!

I’ve probably only played half of them, but I know the rest are waiting for me when I have the time. My Dragon Warrior IV cartridge is my most cherished video game item

This is one of those series where its got a lot of history and games but I just don't get the appeal of them or why i should dip in. Other game series like this for me would be Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts

I started with DQ 11 on Switch and absolutely loved it. I downloaded 7 and 8 ahead of the eShop closure and played through 8 first as I heard that was the better of the two. I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't say it hooked me the same way as 11. The series seems to be pretty iterative, so in some ways, I feel like if I've played one I've sorta played them all. Maybe that's an unfair assessment, I dunno.

Sometime after beating 8, I did start 7 around the beginning of 2023, but I put it down in favor of other games and haven't been back. I fully intend to return to that game, my backlog is just so huge. I sunk maybe 10 or so hours into it, and although I heard the game has an incredibly long start, I didn't find what I played tedious. The more top-down camera angle, despite being more restrictive, actually helps make the game stand out to me from the other two I've beaten. I can't remember where u left off exactly; I think the last area I completed was the village with the volcano that is about to erupt. It was very reminiscent of "The Fortuneteller" episode of Avatar, so that was kinda neat.

I really want to play the DQ3 remake whenever it comes out. Hopefully by then, I'll have gotten around to completing 7. Square certainly doesn't seem to be in any hurry releasing that game. There's been lots of spin-offs, though, which makes me feel overwhelmed. I don't know if their gameplay will click with me or not as I'm not really a Pokémon fan, but I really want to try the new Monsters game and Treasures at some point. I don't know when/how I'll be able to squeeze them in, though. RPG's are just so time-consuming, and there aren't enough hours in the day.

Really good franchise, even if it can get a little monotonous at times. I wouldn't advise playing the games back-to-back; you need a good, long break from the formula. But I really enjoy what little I've played of the franchise. In many ways, it scratches that itch for a new Mario & Luigi game with the zany, cartoony enemies and humor. The gameplay is also simple enough for my brain to comprehend it. I never did finish Ni No Kuni or Xenoblade because the combat was too difficult for me. (I'm too stubborn to activate easy mode.) Dragon Quest keeps things nice and simple, and I can appreciate that very much.

My answer is gonna be “Not enough!”

I’ve got 1-3, DQT and DQ11 on Switch, plus 7&8 on 3DS. I haven’t started any besides DQT. Truly need to. My backlog is ridiculous. Diablo 4 ain’t helping it currently. I need a pause time button, pausing everything around me except that which I touch. Maybe then I’ll complete my backlog before my kiddos grow up and get married! 😂

Edit - I said 9, meant 11. 9 and 10 are missing from my collection until they release on Switch

Question : How many Dragon Quest games have you purchased over the years?

Me : Well, I have purchased these games.
1. Dragon Quest Builders 1, Switch & PS4
2. Dragon Quest Builders 2, Switch & PS4
3. Dragon Quest Heroes 1 PS4

@Anti-Matter I actually went back and bought all of the DS/3DS titles during the lockdowns. As for the Switch, I own everything except the first Dragon Quest Builders and currently playing through Dragon Quest Heroes 1 on the PS4 as we speak. Isn't it strange that both Heroes games released on the Switch in Japan but have yet to be released overseas when English versions exist?

Regardless, I love how well DQ has been doing with the release of XI. The success is long overdue and I hope we never have to suffer another period where DQ games are Japanese exclusive.

Dragon Quest really won me over around the time 9 came out. Was a huge FF fan for the SNES/PS1 eras, but after that, I’d definitely go with DQ. DQ11 is one of my favorite games ever!

Now is the time to bring the Switch versions of Dragon Quest Heroes 1 & 2 to the west already Square Enix. It's like what 5 years now, these games already had English translations, just apply the patch and bring these to the west. You want better sales for the IP then this is it.

@Serpenterror The Heroes games are incredible and I'm baffled as to why they haven't been released in English for Switch yet. It can't be Sony's doing, the games are available on Steam.

I'm actually playing through Heroes 1 right now and it is am absolutely blast. Square is literally leaving money on the table by not doing anything with it.

I started 11 but never got very far. I don’t know why.

I actually only played 3 and that’s
Dragon quest 4
Dragon quest monsters 2 joker
And dragon quest rocket slime.
(4 if you count that dragon quest wars game on the DSI)
Edit: actually five if you count dragon quest wars AND dragon quest tact.

i have played every mainline dragon quest game except for 9 and 10.

Yeah, love the series. Looking forward to more installments.

I have played 4 all the way through to 9. As well as my fav 11. Great series.

I played one on PS2, I think it was 9, and got bored with it really quickly. I gave one of the monster trainer ones a go as well and got bored of that one really quickly as well.

This series is not for me.

Played all except 5, 6, 7, 10.

@Mauzuri it only kicked off the entire genre. No big deal

I've been on and off playing 11 for a few years now. I do really want to finish it and enjoy playing it when I do get around to it but I think it goes to show how little it actually invests me that in the time since I got it I've beaten Xenoblade 2 and 3 and beaten Persona 5 multiple times.

I've played only

World of Dragon Warrior: Torneko: The Last Hope PS
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King PS2
Dragon Quest Swords: TMQATTOM Wii
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies DS

Super casual fan here but eager to play more. I've only played 11 and DQ Builders 1+2 (oh and Treasures which I hated)

If only the music was better… really has been a constant nagging force against me playing some of them, even though I own a few so far. Only finished builders.

Unlike FF, DQ has stayed true to its roots. Played all the mainline games and they just keep getting better and better!

I've dipped my toes into IX and DQM but so far III is the only one I've beaten and I is still an ongoing playthrough (started for the third time at that - emulated, then mobile, and now on Switch). Heroes 2 (or 1+2 IIRC?) demo was my first Switch experience ever, but the full game never reached the west (that moment when Squeenix has less faith in a Dragon Quest musou for western audiences than Koeimo themselves do in the Asian countries' ancient history/mythology in the same genre), so my only other tangible DQ experience to date is Builders, but the latter is rightly among the inspired followers that appeal to me a tier above the "OG" (in this case, Minecraft). Got the second game waiting in the Switch library, too.

I've finished the first six and XI, and have started VII!

Own a few of them. I have beaten:

11 (original and 11 S), Builders, Builders 2

I have played, but not beaten:

1 (Switch port), 7 (3DS port), 8, (3DS port), Heroes 1

I own, but not played:

Heroes 2, Wars

Currently playing:

Treasures

Looking forward to exploring more of the series.

@themightyant DQX is online and region-locked. (Heard there is an offline version, but also locked to Japan)

DQIX is locked on DS only, currently.

Started with Dragon Warrior 1-3 on NES. I only play the series on a Nintendo system (I don't know why?), so I had to wait awhile to play the rest of the series on DS and 3DS and Switch. 10 is the only one I haven't played. Hoping the offline version comes to the West someday.

I’ve played all the mainline games and the builders games. I got Dragon Warrior free with my Nintendo Power renewal one year.

Sales in the 80s and 90s were alot lower for all gaming compared to the size of the industry now. It would be interesting if the next Dragon quest released on Switch as to what the sales numbers would be. With the install base in Japan, I wouldn't be surprised if they try to get it out before the Switch sees a successor.

.... From a personal point of view, please keep turn based. You are my last hope.

Still holding out hope that someday we'll eventually get DQX offline in English

• stares out rain drenched window *

@themightyant chibi can work, but it was something I struggled with playing DQIX. The overall tone of the game is far less serious than VIII so I struggled the whole way. I don't like when publishers feel that a game has to be chibi or less serious because it's a handheld release. (Could be a just me thing though)

@JohnnyMind the cool thing is that DQXI S is the definitive version. The option to flip it to old school graphics is a gargantuan boon.

just say 89 million copies

I am glad to hear that. Ive played 1, 7, 8, 9, 11. My absolute favoruite was 9 and 11 close behind. I would normally not give this series a chance since its very.. fairy-taley, but its so charming that I dont mind.

Dragon Quest is my Pokemon. It's that RPG I get super hyped about in the same way Pokemon fans get hyped about a new Pokemon. What's cool about DQ is even though the games are super long and arduous, they don't come out very often so you have plenty of time to finish them before the next one drops.

Want even more money? Please bring DQX Offline over to the West

i would be all for remastering dragon quest 4 5 and 6..

Dragon warrior ( Dragon Quest 1) was my first Dragon quest game. I think what hooked me in was the monster designs.
I have finished 1-6,8,11. chipping away at the 7&9 still. too many games to play. I thought builders was a great idea for the series to switch things up. hopefully if this psaro DQ Monsters game pops off, we can get the 3ds games remade for the switch as well. And can the 2.5HD remake of 3 come out already? lol (even though I still wouldn't have time to play it haha)

@Beefcakeyamato And also Remake 9 for the switch. have online play with it to swap out the street pass aspect of it.

Posted it somewhere before but putting MIDI songs in an RPG is like shooting your own knee with a shotgun loaded with explosive pellets

I have played the newest one for about 5 hours and then I played 3 for about 20 mins. Dragon quest just doesn’t do it for me which is weird because as my name entails I do enjoy jrpgs.

Ironic that this news comes just after finishing the Dragon Quest Builders 2 jumbo Demo on my Switch yesterday. XD I love what I've played of the DQ series.

From the main series: I've played/beaten IV, V (both on DS), VII, VIII (3DS). I own but have yet to play XI S (Switch) and IX. I intend to buy and get to the others eventually - minus X unless it's localized or I can find a patched/translated version of the Offline variant - and am looking forward to the eventual release of XII.

Haven't touched a lot of spinoffs yet, but I've played/beaten the excellent Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime, will continue my DQB2 playthrough when I buy the full game (next digital sale most likely), and am looking forward to Dragon Quest Monsters 3 this winter. Might eventually try Treasures and the Musou spinoffs should the latter get localized on Switch.

So I played 8 on the PS2 as a teenager and didn't care for it so I dropped it pretty quick. Then I played 7 on 3DS and it was okay but I put it down around when I fought that pig and the other guy outside the place, kept getting my arse whooped. Then I played the demo of that fancy looking one on Switch, forget what number, and I laughed at the cucumber enemy. That is the extent of my experience with the series.

I largely ignored the series until I got hooked by the XI S demo. The cutscenes are the best looking graphics I've seen the Switch pull off! It's awesome that Mario RPG is getting the same treatment.

Anyway, I played through the full game, but stopped short of all the post-game stuff. It was essentially a 300-floppy-disk-deep 1980s computer text and menu navigation adventure when you strip away the awesome visuals.

It was badass, but 80 hours at that point was enough for me. Stoked for XII!

From the main series I have left VII and X Offline.
I have played several spin-offs like Builders, Monsters Joker, and Rocket Slime.

I played IV and IX to completion. I really wanted to play XI S, and others, but it seems like every time I get the chance to play a DQ game there's always something else out I'd rather play.

I'm playing XI S right now & really enjoying it. Previously I've played Builders 2 and that's one of my favorite games of all time (and was my intro to DQ as a series). I own VIII but haven't gotten around to it yet. I have other non-DQ games to play after XI S but enjoying it so much did make me look up rankings of the mainline games, and now I want to play V the most next.

Starry skies
That's all.

Can someone tell Square Enix that they'd have sold way more if they would care about this franchise as much as Final Fantasy. Where's DQ3 remake? Where's Dragon Quest 1-9 collection? Where's Dragon Quest ports from the 3ds to other systems?
A really great franchise let down by its owners