Final Fantasy 16 DLC Echoes of the Fallen is out now

A little interlude to the main story

Marco Wutz | Dec 7, 2023

Final Fantasy 16 DLC Echoes of the Fallen is out now /

Square Enix has revealed the first story expansion for Final Fantasy 16, the Echoes of the Fallen DLC, for PS5 at The Game Awards 2023. Echoes of the Fallen is out now, so you can go and play immediately.

Rising Tide, a second DLC for Final Fantasy 16, will follow it in spring 2024.

A trailer introducing the expansion packs can be found below:

Final Fantasy 16 was released on June 22, 2023, for PS5 and sold over three million copies worldwide during its first week after launch. However, the title notably fell short of fulfilling the commercial expectations Square Enix had set for it. While it earned high review scores overall, praise for the game wasn’t unanimous by any means – and the lack of a Game of the Year nomination at The Game Awards 2023 underlines that.

GLHF’s Final Fantasy 16 review called it “an incredible action game that is compromised by shallow RPG mechanics.”

Producer Naoki Yoshida promised that a PC port of Final Fantasy 16 would be coming, but so far we’ve not heard any official news about it.

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Published Dec 7, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg