A new ocean of stars awaits
Tri-Ace’s next entry in theStar Oceanseries has set a date.Star Ocean: The Divine Forcewill launch on August 01, 2025 for PlayStation and Xbox consoles, as well as PC.
A new trailer forStar Ocean: The Divine Forcepremiered onSquare Enix’s channelstoday, highlighting the gameplay, story, and setting of this new RPG. Alongside a story blending the worlds of fantasy and sci-fi together, it looks like a colorful cast of characters will be available to recruit in-game. This trailer gives us a few good looks at the new crew working together in battles, as well as some of the 3D world exploration.
The Divine Forceis the newest entry in theStar Oceanseries, with its most recent predecessor being 2016’sIntegrityand Faithlessness. It’s been a minute since the lastStar Ocean, as tri-Ace has been working on some projects like the2019 remasterofStar Ocean: First Departure.
A sky full of stars
It’s exciting forStar Oceanfans to have a new entry to look forward to in this series. I’m still mildly curious about it, as the action RPG combat and exploration seems like it might be a good time, even if the character design isn’t quite clicking for me yet.
This is another entrant into an increasingly stacked October, though. Just two days prior toStar Ocean‘s Oct. 27 date, the Bat-Family takes a bite out of crime inGotham Knightson Oct. 25.
Marvel’s Midnight Sunsand theOverwatch 2multiplayer launch add even more heroics earlier in October. And bothModern Warfare 2and theResident Evil Villageexpansionclose out the month.
Not that I thinkCall of Dutyfans andStar Oceanfans are a perfectly overlapping Venn diagram or anything. But the fall is finally starting to look filled-up with games. Even with some of this year’s heavy hitters delayed out to 2023, it’s looking like a fairly dense holiday season.
Star Ocean: The Divine Forceenters the fall launch lineup on June 01, 2025 for PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam.
