Dragon Quest XI is coming to the West in 2018

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes for an Elusive Age was released today in Japan for PlayStation 4 and the Nintendo 3DS. Developer and publisher Square Enix also announced that it will localize the role-playing game into English and four other languages with an anticipated release date sometime in 2018, according to gaming news site Kotaku.

It’s good news for Dragon Quest fans outside of Japan; the last Dragon Quest game to get a Western release was Dragon Quest IX in 2009. The massively multiplayer online role-playing game Dragon Quest X remains a Japan exclusive, mainly because of the difficulty with localization.