- Publisher: Square Enix
- Release Date: Dec 4, 2025
- Also On: Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PlayStation 4, Switch, Xbox Series X
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- Developer: Square Enix, DokiDoki Groove Works
- Genre(s): Role-Playing, Japanese-Style
- # of players: No Online Multiplayer
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 36 out of 40
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Mixed: 4 out of 40
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Negative: 0 out of 40
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Dec 5, 2025Octopath Traveler 0 delivers a tight, compelling story with challenging turn-based battles and satisfying Boost-and-Break tactics, all wrapped in atmospheric HD-2D beauty. Building your own village and exploring the world feels rewarding and familiar thanks to the strong soundtrack and recognizable style. Fans of the series will feel right at home once again.
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Dec 3, 2025The additions made to the franchise’s core, spliced in with Champions Of The Content and the changes made to its DNA, make Octopath Traveler 0 an incredibly engaging and constantly enticing prospect. The Path Of Restoration begins now, and I hope you’re along for the ride.
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Dec 3, 2025Octopath Traveler 0 delivers the series’ most cohesive story yet, backed by its sharpest combat system and a surprisingly addictive town-building feature. By blending a focused narrative with a large, memorable cast and wrapping it all in gorgeous HD-2D visuals, it stands as both the strongest entry in the franchise and one of the best JRPGs in years.
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Dec 3, 2025Octopath Traveler 0 is a massive JRPG boasting amazing storytelling, gameplay, and an overall wonderful experience. New elements like the village construction mode and using up to 8 characters in combat definitely add some sauce. Still, the lack of a Spanish localization hurts, especially considering how much care each story has been crafted with.
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Dec 3, 2025Octopath Traveler 0 provides an immense 100-hour JRPG journey, boasting magnificent HD-2D visuals, demanding combat, and an expanded, choice-driven narrative. Despite reinventing the series with engaging new mechanics, its critical omission of Spanish localization for the target audience is a grave error, severely limiting its accessibility amidst otherwise stellar offerings.
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Dec 3, 2025Octopath Traveler 0 has fantastic quality-of-life improvements and base-building elements, although it’s not a huge step-up in the formula. Square Enix perfectly takes advantage of their nostalgic 2D-HD art style, all while incorporating a shocking amount of voiced dialogue. The ability to have all eight party members on the field, half of whom are sidelined and can be pulled into battle at any time, is a phenomenal addition, although it does reduce a good chunk of the challenge, especially considering most of the characters can be recruited early on. Regardless, the story will have players engaged enough to keep them playing for the immensely lengthy storyline. If there’s one long JRPG to get for the holiday season, it’s this.
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Dec 4, 2025Octopath Traveler 0 is the perfect game for newcomers, but it doesn’t quite live up to the sky-high expectations of true die-hard fans. As a result, it’s a pretty solid game, but not as good as it could have been.