Expansion

Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers

2019 · Xbox Series X|S · PlayStation 4 · Nintendo Switch 2 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Mac · Role-playing (RPG)

91IGDB player score
77 ratings

Previously Take

A 91 average flying under the radar. Worth knowing about before everyone else finds it. This one plays like prestige TV, from Square Enix: fantasy, drama, characters with actual depth, and a RPG frame around it all. The story is the main course; the multiplayer is the reason it's still installed years later.

About this game

Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers is the third expansion pack to Final Fantasy XIV Online. The expansion takes the Warrior of Light to the First, one of thirteen reflections of the Source that is being consumed by a Flood of Light. The main region visited is known as Norvrandt, which is roughly analogous to the Source's Eorzea, and is the only region in the world that has not yet succumbed to the Flood of Light.

Ala Mhigo is at last free from imperial rule, but that liberty may prove fleeting as the Empire moves to both reclaim this bloodied nation and subjugate all of Eorzea. In their hour of need, however, they cannot turn to the Warrior of Light. Nor to the Scions, who yet slumber, their souls adrift. The realm is left to struggle without its saviors, for they have been beckoned beyond time and space─beckoned to the First. Here a new adventure begins in a world where light ushers all unto oblivion. But hope is not yet lost, for where there is light there is shadow. Warrior of Light - embrace the darkness and forge a new fate!