Fans have enjoyed Final Fantasy games since the ’80s and on various platforms. From arcade consoles to home consoles, there isn’t a place these games can’t be experienced, including on the go. It’s a franchise of intrigue that blends fantasy and science fiction. It’s common for many popular video games to receive ports over to mobile devices.
Whether you’re looking for something brand-spanking new or a familiar setting, Final Fantasy has you covered. Grab your iOS or Android-supported device and dive into new and familiar fantastical worlds. Pick up a sword or a wand as an original or established character.
10 Final Fantasy: All The Bravest
Square Enix decided on a new approach with this mobile game. Final Fantasy games of the past limited a party to four or five characters. All the Bravest, on the other hand, allows a party to have up to a whopping 40 characters. That’s more than any other role-playing game ever. Despite being produced in 2013, this game is designed with 16-bit graphics, just like the primary Final Fantasy games of the past. Unfortunately, this game wasn’t successful with fans due to a lack of depth. There was no story, character customization was minimal, and it just didn’t feel like a Final Fantasy game other than the job classes.
9 Final Fantasy Record Keeper
Square Enix posed the question to its player base: What if you changed the history of your favorite Final Fantasy games? Record Keeper was the answer. It lets you play through certain scenarios from previous games and change their outcome. If you’re interested in reliving fond memories while simultaneously experiencing new events, this free-to-play mobile game is ideal. Unfortunately, Record Keeper’s publisher halted support for the game in 2022.
8 Final Fantasy 15: A New Empire
A New Empire is unlike any other Final Fantasy game in the franchise. While most are action-adventure RPGs, this entry is a multiplayer tower defense game. It uses the same setting and characters from Final Fantasy 15, but nothing else resembles a Final Fantasy game.
This tower defense game requires you to mine for resources in order to build and reinforce various structures to defend against other players.
7 Final Fantasy Dimensions
Final Fantasy Dimensions is a wholly new installment into the franchise for mobile devices that successfully captures the essence of old-school Final Fantasy games with its 16-bit graphics. The story revolves around two groups of adventurers trying to heal a world split in two. The enemies are a combination of exceptionally easy to defeat and unreasonably difficult, much to the frustration of fans. Furthermore, Dimensions uses a similar job system to Final Fantasy 5 for the characters to progress through, adding a fun component for you to focus on.
6 Final Fantasy 8
2021 saw the release of fan-favorite Final Fantasy 8 remastered for iOS and Android devices. It returns with everything you would want from Final Fantasy 8, including a streamlined version of the Junction system that adds abilities to your characters when you drain magic from enemies. This isn’t an entire remake like the one Final Fantasy 7 received, but it is a facelift with updated graphics, presenting the melancholic Squall and friends in HD.
5 Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
If you’re looking for a simple 2D role-playing game with all the makings of a fantastic Final Fantasy game, Brave Exvius is the game to download. It’s an original, free-to-play Final Fantasy game with brand new characters and an in-depth story. As a collaboration between Square Enix and Alim, Brave Exvius pulls inspiration from previous Final Fantasy games as well as Alim’s Brave Frontier.
Brave Exvius, unlike Brave Frontier, lets you explore different towns and dungeons. Furthermore, characters from previous Final Fantasy games can be used in battle, giving cameos to fan favorites such as Cloud Strife and Vivi.
4 Final Fantasy Tactics: The War Of The Lions
The War of the Lions was released for the PSP, iOS, and Android, giving mobile users an opportunity to enjoy the world of Ivalice, the same setting used for previous Final Fantasy Tactics games and Final Fantasy 12. It’s a political thriller told through the action of its combat system. Strategy is paramount to The War of the Lions as where your character stands and which way they’re facing can determine the difference between life and death.
3 War Of The Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
Taking inspiration from Final Fantasy Tactics, War of the Visions Brave Exvius’s sequel that gives you a grid-based map for combat and story developments. Speaking of combat, War of the Visions features a PVP option, allowing you to fight against other players rather than AI enemies. Many combat techniques and abilities return, giving the game some familiarity for Final Fantasy fans. There are also multiplayer quests to enjoy with friends if PVP isn’t your thing.
2 Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Ominia
Since Marvel succeeded with its shared cinematic universe, every company within every medium has made attempts at its own shared universe. Final Fantasy is no exception. Dissidia Opera Ominia successfully brought characters from multiple Final Fantasy installments to fight together.
There are plenty of characters to appease even the most casual fan of the franchise, and it gives more invested fans a glimpse of how these characters interact together. Combat relies on a feature called the “Bravery Meter,” which rises and falls within the battle, functioning as a damage multiplier.
1 Final Fantasy 7
There is no shortage of Final Fantasy 7 content out there. From Dirge of Cerberus to the episodic remake, Final Fantasy 7 is the most popular installment in the franchise. Naturally, it received a port to mobile devices for everyone to enjoy between social media posts and texts. It’s the same old game from 1997, so don’t expect any of the updated graphics or storyline adjustments from Playstation 5’s remake.
