After being relegated to consoles for nearly a year, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth just landed on PC. Sure, that means we get improved lighting and fancy technical bells and whistles. Nice. But what's way, way nicer are all the mods flooding into the open-world game, namely one that puts all nine playable characters onto the battlefield.

Nic says that RPG remake sequel Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is " uneven, unfocused, and unmissable ". You also can’t miss its regular performance hiccups, which most often manifest as little but frequent stutters that occur as you’re moseying around its poorly planet.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth failed on launch, will Rise of the Ronin encounter a similar reception as Final Fantasy 7?

Close to a year after its launch on PlayStation 5, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is escaping from Midgar and entering into the wider world of PC gaming. Rebirth's official PC launch date is on January 23, but how that date applies to you depends on your timezone. While you wait, we've got more for you to read on Rebirth:

Rebirth beat out FF7 Remake and Final Fantasy 16 handily, and only trails behind the Final Fantasy 14 MMO in the series' PC releases.

Evidently, FF7 Rebirth is another SSD -hogging gigantogame, though for some the bigger concern will be those minimum GPU specs. While none of the Radeon, RX 6600, Arc A580, or RTX 2060 are high-end cards in themselves, the official listings' emphasis on meeting at least these specific hardware generations does reveal an unusually high fussiness.

The PC version of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth set a record for most concurrent players in a single-player game from the series this past weekend.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has become the biggest single-player release of the series on Steam by CCU, beating both FF15 and FF16.