Square Enix will give a “new look” at Final Fantasy 7 Revelation during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live on August 25, with director Naoki Hamaguchi hosting the segment in person.
The show, produced by Geoff Keighley, airs at 11am PT, 2pm ET and 7pm BST and typically mixes new trailers with full announcements. Hamaguchi’s presence on stage suggests the segment will go beyond a standard trailer, potentially including an interview or additional reveals.
Keighley’s showcase usually runs close to two hours and features reveals from multiple publishers alongside the occasional world premiere. It streams live on Twitch and YouTube. Square Enix has not said how much of the runtime the Final Fantasy 7 Revelation segment will occupy.
What Final Fantasy 7 Revelation closes out
The game is the third and final entry in the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy, following Final Fantasy 7 Remake in 2020 and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth in 2024. Critics praised both games for the expanded scope Square Enix brought to the original 1997 role-playing game. Square Enix has set release for the first half of 2027 without confirming an exact date.
Unlike its two predecessors, Revelation will not launch as a timed console exclusive. It arrives simultaneously on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch 2 and PC, a shift from the staggered rollout that kept earlier entries off some platforms at launch.
Hamaguchi rules out an epilogue
Hamaguchi has already addressed one common fan question: whether the trilogy’s ending will get stretched out with epilogue DLC. It won’t. “The story will be concluded within the main game,” he told Automaton in a recent interview. “We’re serious about concluding the series with Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, and we’re proceeding with development with that goal in mind.”
The comment follows an Epic Games Store listing spotted by dataminers last month. The listing appeared to reference a “Story Expansion Pass” for the game, which raised questions about how Square Enix would handle the story after launch. Hamaguchi’s answer draws a clear line: any future DLC would stand apart from the main narrative rather than extend it.
“If we were to hypothetically release any DLC, we would likely want to create a kind of spin-off focused on a specific character that depicts their untold stories, kind of like what we did with Yuffie with Final Fantasy 7 Episode Intermission, and I think there is demand for it among fans,” he said. “So, in case we do end up considering making a DLC, this is the kind of thing that we’d likely attempt to do.”
Gamescom’s Opening Night Live segment will be the first substantial look at the game since Square Enix confirmed its existence, and the first chance for Hamaguchi to speak publicly about it on stage.