{"id":55511,"date":"2025-12-28T17:32:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=55511"},"modified":"2025-12-28T17:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:35:24","slug":"cygamess-beloved-jrpg-granblue-fantasy-getting-global-steam-release-12-years-after-japan-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/cygamess-beloved-jrpg-granblue-fantasy-getting-global-steam-release-12-years-after-japan-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Cygames\u2019s beloved\u00a0JRPG\u00a0Granblue\u00a0Fantasy getting global Steam\u00a0release\u00a012 years after Japan launch\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the&nbsp;<strong>Granblue&nbsp;Fantasy Fes 2025<\/strong>&nbsp;livestream held on December 28,&nbsp;Cygames&nbsp;announced that&nbsp;a Steam version of the long-running&nbsp;JRPG is in development.&nbsp;<strong>Granblue&nbsp;Fantasy<\/strong>&nbsp;is set to launch on the platform globally on March 10, 2026.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u3010\u30b0\u30e9\u30d6\u30eb\u30d5\u30a7\u30b92025\u3011Day2\u751f\u4e2d\u7d99\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hv6TxWMnLfQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Released back in 2014&nbsp;in Japan&nbsp;for&nbsp;iOS,&nbsp;Android&nbsp;and&nbsp;web&nbsp;browsers,&nbsp;Granblue&nbsp;Fantasy is a&nbsp;highly popular&nbsp;free-to-play&nbsp;RPG&nbsp;that has&nbsp;since&nbsp;spawned&nbsp;a whole&nbsp;multimedia&nbsp;franchise, including&nbsp;anime and manga adaptations, the console fighting game&nbsp;Granblue&nbsp;Fantasy Versus: Rising, and the&nbsp;3D&nbsp;action RPG&nbsp;Granblue&nbsp;Fantasy:&nbsp;Relink.&nbsp;Aside from&nbsp;its&nbsp;turn-based combat system,&nbsp;co-op raids&nbsp;and&nbsp;fully voiced stories, a big draw of&nbsp;Granblue&nbsp;Fantasy&nbsp;are&nbsp;some of the names behind it. Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu is credited on the&nbsp;game\u2019s&nbsp;soundtrack, and it also&nbsp;boasts&nbsp;the&nbsp;work&nbsp;of&nbsp;art director&nbsp;Hideo&nbsp;Minaba&nbsp;(known for his involvement in Final Fantasy V, VI, IX and XII).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While&nbsp;Granblue&nbsp;Fantasy already has&nbsp;an&nbsp;English language&nbsp;patch&nbsp;available (released in 2016), the game never&nbsp;got&nbsp;a&nbsp;Western&nbsp;launch, which made it&nbsp;somewhat&nbsp;tricky&nbsp;to access for&nbsp;players outside of Japan.&nbsp;This makes the newly announced Steam version a&nbsp;pretty big&nbsp;deal.&nbsp;According to&nbsp;Cygames, the&nbsp;new&nbsp;version&nbsp;of&nbsp;Granblue&nbsp;Fantasy&nbsp;has been reworked&nbsp;into&nbsp;a&nbsp;16:9 ratio layout,&nbsp;replacing&nbsp;the&nbsp;vertical orientation&nbsp;of&nbsp;the game\u2019s&nbsp;mobile&nbsp;and browser versions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251228-5551-005.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251228-5551-005.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251228-5551-005-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251228-5551-005-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251228-5551-005-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, while&nbsp;supporting&nbsp;both English and Japanese, the Steam release will not be available to players&nbsp;located&nbsp;in Japan.&nbsp;Another important thing to note is that&nbsp;if&nbsp;you\u2019re&nbsp;already playing the mobile or browser versions of the game, you&nbsp;won\u2019t&nbsp;be able to&nbsp;link your accounts or transfer any data. In other words, you can only start a new game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1457\" height=\"787\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1457px) 100vw, 1457px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251228-5551-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251228-5551-002.jpg 1457w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251228-5551-002-380x205.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251228-5551-002-768x415.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Granblue&nbsp;Fantasy is available for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/jp\/app\/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC\/id852882903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iOS<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=jp.mbga.a12016007.lite&amp;hl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Android<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/granbluefantasy.jp\/en\/download\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">browsers<\/a>. The Steam version&nbsp;launches&nbsp;March 10, 2026.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Steam version will be reworked into a 16:9 ratio layout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":55513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-55511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cygames\u2019s beloved\u00a0JRPG\u00a0Granblue\u00a0Fantasy getting global Steam\u00a0release\u00a012 years after Japan launch\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cygames has announced a global Steam version of its majorly popular free-to-play RPG Granblue Fantasy, coming March 2026.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/cygamess-beloved-jrpg-granblue-fantasy-getting-global-steam-release-12-years-after-japan-launch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cygames\u2019s beloved\u00a0JRPG\u00a0Granblue\u00a0Fantasy getting global Steam\u00a0release\u00a012 years after Japan launch\u00a0 - 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