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It’s taken 13 years, but Final Fantasy 14 has finally broken the Sephiroth-shaped emergency glass
Final Fantasy 14 will feature its most substantial Final Fantasy 7 crossover yet, with the upcoming Evercold expansion’s eight-player raid series centred on Cloud and his companions. The announcement is significant because, despite regularly drawing on the wider franchise, the long-running MMO has largely avoided directly adapting Final Fantasy 7’s characters and world.
Revealed at the 2026 Final Fantasy 14 Fan Festival in Berlin, the collaboration is titled Beyond the Lifestream and involves Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi. Square Enix veterans Motomu Toriyama, Kazushige Nojima and Tetsuya Nomura are contributing to the raid, although its precise story and roster remain unconfirmed. Separately, the Gold Saucer will receive a Final Fantasy 7-inspired attraction, including a typing game, on 28 October.
In short
- Evercold’s raid series will bring Final Fantasy 7 into Final Fantasy 14.
- Cloud and Sephiroth were shown during the announcement.
- The Gold Saucer update arrives on 28 October.
Explained simply
Final Fantasy 14 is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game where thousands of players explore a shared virtual world. The game has regularly incorporated characters and stories from across the Final Fantasy franchise.
Final Fantasy 7 is a culturally significant and influential video game originally released in 1997. Square Enix, which publishes both Final Fantasy 14 and Final Fantasy 7, has invested heavily in remaking and expanding Final Fantasy 7 through various projects in recent years.
Throughout Final Fantasy 14's 13-year history, Final Fantasy 7's core characters and world have remained largely absent from the MMO, despite the game's openness to other Final Fantasy crossovers. This is striking given Square Enix's substantial investment in Final Fantasy 7 remakes and spin-offs in recent years.