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Experience the first “modern-era” Ys game, now off the small screen for its worldwide PC debut! Features a full party system, dozens of unique combat skills, and a massive overworld to explore. Uncover the secret of the Five Great Dragons, and help Adol Christin save the day once again!

Ys SEVEN is a rpg, action and jrpg game developed by Nihon Falcom and published by XSEED Games, Marvelous USA and Inc..
Released on August 30th 2017 is available only on Windows in 2 languages: English and Japanese.

It has received 894 reviews of which 824 were positive and 70 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Ys SEVEN into these genres:

RPG Action JRPG Great Soundtrack Anime Action RPG Singleplayer Adventure Hack and Slash Fantasy

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10
Processor: Intel® Core™i5　2.4GHz or higher
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 1280x720 Intel® HD Graphics 4400
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 2 GB available space
Sound Card: HD Audio

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April 2025

The most 7/10 game I've ever played. SP generation takes so long until you get the wind seal about a third of the way in

Dec. 2024

This is such an underrated Ys game. I'm going through the whole series now and played in a weird order so I've played all but Oath and Memories of Celceta. I expected this to be a meh game based on everything I've read about Ys but this is easily one of my favorites. This is such a great Ys game, don't skip it I wrote the above while I was in the final dungeon still. After the ending, this might be my favorite Ys game. Enjoy your depression after finishing Ys Seven

Nov. 2024

Sideways thumb. This was quite the disappointment. This is the first Ys game to start using party combat, and boy does that have me worried for the next games (I own Celceta & Ys VIII , so I'm going to try them eventually). So Ys had a string of games that were pretty solid 8/10's (at least to me) with Naphistim , Felghana & Origin . If you've played one of those, the others were predictable, the gameplay would be pretty much the same. With this game, Ys introduced the character swap mechanic in place of the fire/thunder/etc weapons, and this system just feels worse/more convoluted than the previous. It's not at all difficult to grasp or anything, but it just feels like you're swapping characters to the one most effective at dealing damage to specific enemy types. Regardless of whom you swap too, you're using your basic attack and occasionally your big attacks. Some of these basic attacks are slow, or ranged with a very limited range, they don't feel particularly great, whereas when you used your various weapon skills in the previous Ys games, they each had their place and felt more powerful/better to use. The combat system here does have more special attacks and things going on with it, but it feels like a downgrade from the previous games. I also felt more spammy with that attack button, almost like I was playing a beat'em up game. Other changes that don't improve the gameplay, and in some ways made it worse: Your jump has been replaced with a dash. Okay, so dashing out of the way of enemies is fine, but I enjoyed being able to jump and was missing it here, it also led to more interesting level design and platforming in the previous games. You get different stat bonuses depending on which 3 characters you use, but this doesn't feel interesting or important to develop any kind of synergy. They added crafting ingredients which you collect, which feels needless, though seemed at least be straightforward and mostly inoffensive. Often enemies die and remain there to be whacked a few times to drop extra resources, it serves as a needless, minor nuisance. Enemies respawn now after a period of time, even if you don't leave an area, like in an MMORPG. I'd prefer them not too, but whatever, okay. On another note, a game is also more immersive to me when you feel like you're adventuring alone rather than with a jumble of characters on the screen, it makes you feel more isolated in your environments. The game otherwise appears to follow most of the usual Ys formula, though feels a bit sparse/bland in its area design (probably in part due to jumping being taken away). The second half of the game is a big step up from the first, with larger dungeons and more interesting things going on, it does get better after the first 12 hours, but by that point I also felt like I had stockholm syndrome. This game went from being a dull 6/10 to something like a 7 or 7.5 and I eventually flipped this review to positive. Apparently the next Ys games are doubling down on this party system, so yeah, this was disappointing, and the future looks bleak. Whilst the previous games had a streamlined machine going, they were quite repetitive and I agree with the decision to try and mix things up a bit, but this wasn't the sauce that the series needed, and in fact has led to the combat actually becoming more dull and repetitive. It's quite playable and fine, but just incredibly bland compared to the previous games, mid at best. Other issues, mostly technical: -The game doesn’t launch in full screen mode and I had to check the Steam discussion page to find a way to make Steam launch a configuration tool which then allowed me to fix that. Pretty shoddy, but easily remedied. -The title screen has a portion of the screen cut off. This is fortunately only on this one screen, so it isn’t a big deal but again, shoddy. -At the start of the game, I visited every possible location & NPC in the town and appeared to be stuck/trapped. Apparently the game relies on your entering one of the screens from a specific side in order to trigger a crucial cutscene, which I eventually stumbled upon running in circles around the place. Poor design. -Sound effects were a little too loud in relation to the music, you can adjust that with the volume sliders in the game, but by default you’d expect that to get picked up during testing. I’ll add that some character sounds still sounded too loud. -I was beating most of these bosses on the first try on Normal difficulty, but I don't think making them spongier by playing on harder would've made them more interesting encounters.

Ys returns with a brand new adventure for the first time in 8 years! Adol awakens shipwrecked and stranded on a cursed island. There, he and the other shipwrecked passengers he rescues form a village to challenge fearsome beasts and mysterious ruins on the isolated island.

Similarity 99%

Price -38% 24.94€

Rating 8.7

Release 16 Apr 2018

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