Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake

Main series games Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake Developer(s) ARTDINK & Square Enix (Team Asano) Publisher(s) Square Enix Designer(s) Yuji Horii Artist(s) Akira Toriyama Composer(s) Kōichi Sugiyama Series Dragon Quest Platform(s) Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Steam Release date(s) Nintendo Switch
^INT October 30th, 2025
Nintendo Switch 2
^INT October 30th, 2025
PlayStation 5
^INT October 30th, 2025
Xbox Series X/S
^INT October 30th, 2025
Steam
^INT October 30th, 2025
Genre(s) Console role-playing Mode(s) Single-player Rating(s) ESRB: Everyone +10

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake is a full re-imagining of the first two titles in the Dragon Quest series in Team Asano's famed HD-2D artstyle which fuses high-quality pixel art with 3D graphics. It includes a full remake of Dragon Quest and Dragon Quest II.

This dual pack was announced following the reintroduction of Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, which used to have no new announcements after its original reveal. It will be released on October 30, 2025 for the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Steam. For the Nintendo Switch 2, physical copies will only come with a game-key card.

New features

Scenario changes

• The Princess of Cannock is now a party member accompanying the Scions of Erdrick on their quest to stop Hargon.
• New boss battles added in Dragon Quest I such as the Goregoyle and the return of Robbin' 'Ood and his henchmen.
• New story segments such as Belial incinerating a babygoyle and a new manguini monster, as well as threatening a village of fairies, in addition to Pazuzu appearing in the Sea Cave's Shrine to the Great Conflagration alongside its 2 Whackolyte guardians.
• The Scions of Erdrick now have to collect medals from their home kingdoms of Midenhall, Cannock, and Moonbrooke in order to be worthy of visiting the Pillar of Winds.
• The Sun Sigil is now found on a pedestal near the outskirts of the Fire Shrine.
• It's confirmed that Dragon Quest II will have a new endgame scenario if you have first cleared Dragon Quest I, and most importantly, have clear game save data of Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake on the same platform.
• Mini Medals have been added to both games.

Presentation

• Re-imagined locations and HD-quality sprites.
• Certain areas have been slightly modified to account for the perspective changing from the classic top-down view to the pop up book style found in other HD2D titles.
• Orchestral soundtrack.

Character changes

• The Prince of Cannock has been buffed considerably, as opposed to how weak he infamously was originally.

Battle changes

• The hero of Dragon Quest I now battles multiple enemies at once rather than only one at a time originally.
• New skills and spells have been added to the repertoire of the heroes, such as Dragon Slash and Kacrack. These can be learned by finding ability scrolls located in side-quests, dungeons, and hidden areas.
• You can now view Enemy Info while battling them by clicking the right stick.
• Targeting a monster with an elemental attack it is weak to displays a red marker over it, and doing so with a resisted element displays the marker in blue.
• Enemies from later entries of the main series and enemies of the first entry for II are added in Dragon Quest I and Dragon Quest II, such as bubble slimes in the former and scornets and drackolytes in the latter.

Others

• Having saved data of Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake allows players to receive animal costumes for the playable characters. For the hero of Dragon Quest I, it is the dog suit, based on a shiba-inu. For the heroes of Dragon Quest II, it is a cat suit, which are based on the different colors of cats.

Gallery

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  Artwork of the Erdrick Trilogy HD-2D Remakes by Naoki Ikushima.

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  Japanese logo.

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake