🗂️ Series: Final Fantasy
Born in 1987 as the last gamble of a Square on the brink of bankruptcy, Final Fantasy became the role-playing series that defined the JRPG genre. Its most distinctive trait: every Roman-numbered entry is an entirely separate world, cast and story — sharing only legendary symbols such as Crystals, Chocobos, airships, summoning magic and the war between light and darkness.
On Truyện Game the entries are told in the series' own numerical order for easy following. Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth form a rewritten timeline branching off the original FFVII — best read after the FFVII story to see where the two timelines diverge.
🏢 About the developer — Square Enix
Square Enix is a Japanese game company formed in 2003 by the merger of Square and Enix — the names behind Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. Headquartered in Tokyo, it is one of the world's largest game publishers, famed for cinematic story-driven JRPGs and brands such as Kingdom Hearts and NieR.
Final Fantasy IVFinal Fantasy IV Story Explained: The Dark Knight Cecil's Journey of Redemption
Once the captain of the Red Wings, ordered to steal the Crystals for the kingdom of Baron, Cecil Harvey must lay down his dark sword and climb Mount Ordeals to face his own darkness — only to discover an enemy wearing the face of his own brother, and a plot that truly begins on the Moon.
Final Fantasy VIFinal Fantasy VI Story Explained: The Madman Who Destroyed the World and a Symphony of Hope
A girl turned into a weapon without ever knowing it, a mad clown who actually succeeds in destroying the world right in the middle of the story, and a group of friends gathering hope back from the ashes — Final Fantasy VI is the greatest 16-bit symphony Square ever wrote.
Final Fantasy VIIFinal Fantasy VII Story Explained: The Mercenary and the Memories That Were Never His
Cloud Strife believes he was once a SOLDIER First Class. The truth is far crueler: his identity is a patchwork mask stitched together from someone else's memories. The complete story of Midgar, Sephiroth and a dying planet — retold from the beginning.
Final Fantasy VIIIFinal Fantasy VIII Story Explained: The Sorceress's Time Loop and the Promise at the Flower Field
A band of teenage mercenaries, a sorceress from the far future, and a love that begins with a dance beneath the fireworks — Final Fantasy VIII is a story about stolen memories, compressed time, and a closed loop that its own hero unwittingly set in motion.
Final Fantasy IXFinal Fantasy IX Story Explained: Home Is Where Someone Is Waiting for You
A kidnapping becomes the princess's own escape, a black mage sets out in search of the answer to who he is, and a farewell letter reduces millions of players to tears — Final Fantasy IX is the most moving story Square has ever told about the meaning of being alive.
Final Fantasy XFinal Fantasy X Story Explained: The Thousand-Year Dream and the Price of Truth
Tidus wakes up in a strange world where the monster Sin has been sowing death for a thousand years — and the girl he falls in love with is walking a pilgrimage whose price is her own life. The whole story of Spira, Yu Yevon, and the dream of Zanarkand — retold from the very beginning.
Final Fantasy XIIFinal Fantasy XII Story Explained: The Gods' Chess Game and the Princess Who Dared to Say No
A small kingdom lost in a single night because of one perfect lie; a princess chosen by the gods to be their puppet of vengeance — and she refused. Final Fantasy XII is the most ambitious political epic in the series: empires, the god-stones called nethicite, and the question of who truly holds the reins of history.
Final Fantasy XVFinal Fantasy XV Story Explained: Ten Years in the Crystal and the Price of the Dawn
A road trip to a wedding becomes a quest to reclaim a throne; a prince sleeps ten years inside the Crystal to become the King of Light — and pays for it with his own life. Final Fantasy XV is a story about the bond between four friends — and about a villain who waited 2,000 years just to die.
Final Fantasy XVIFinal Fantasy XVI Story Explained: The Flame of Rebellion and the Day Magic Vanished from Valisthea
Valisthea lives by its Mothercrystals — and dies by them a little more each day. Clive Rosfield, the eldest son the Phoenix rejected, bears the blame for his brother's death through thirteen years of slavery and sets out to destroy the Mothercrystals one by one — only to discover that behind every tragedy stands a god who has raised mankind like livestock, waiting for the day of harvest.