Final Fantasy 7 Remake Game Pass date, and the price to beat

From 29 October, Final Fantasy 7 Remake Game Pass access stops being a rumour: Microsoft has confirmed on Xbox Wire that FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE joins Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium and PC Game Pass that day, across cloud, Xbox Series X|S and PC. If you already pay for one of those tiers, the cost of finding out whether you want the first third of the FF7 remake trilogy has just gone to nothing extra.

The buying question is the more interesting one, because this is not a game that has sold at its sticker price for a long time. As of 22 October 2026, our tracked low for FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE is $7.88, logged at Gameseal on 22 September 2026 — around 80% below the figure the official stores have been asking, unmoved, for every day we have watched. That is the number to hold in your head while you decide whether a subscription or a purchase makes more sense.

What the Final Fantasy 7 Remake Game Pass drop actually includes

Intergrade is the full FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE plus EPISODE INTERmission, the separate Yuffie Kisaragi chapter, and a pile of in-game weapons, armour and summon materia dropped into a gift box on the main menu. It is one purchase, not a base game with an expansion to argue about later, which makes it an unusually clean thing to put on a subscription service.

What it is not is the whole story. Remake covers the original game up to the escape from Midgar — roughly the first six hours of the 1997 release, stretched to thirty-odd. The sequel is a separate product at a separate price, and it is not coming to Game Pass alongside this one.

Midgar is the whole map. Remake trades the original's world tour for one city rendered at absurd density. (Official Steam screenshot)

What our price record shows, and why the list price is a fiction

We have held a continuous daily price record for Intergrade since 18 June 2026. Across the 75 days in that window where we captured a cheapest live offer, the median day sat at $13.22 — a third of the official asking price. The band is tight at the top and spiky at the bottom: the most expensive day we logged was in mid-August, the floor arrived on 22 September, and only five days in four months went under $10.

Two details are worth more than the headline. First, on exactly one of those days did an official storefront hold the cheapest listing anywhere: the Microsoft Store, on 11 September 2026. Every other low came from a key marketplace. Second, the official price itself never moved at all. Steam, the Humble Store and the Epic Games Store have asked the same figure every single day we have looked, which means a reader who waits for an official sale on this game is waiting for something our record says does not happen.

Square Enix's own Steam trailer for Intergrade, from the official FINAL FANTASY channel.

Subscribe or buy: the honest answer

If you already hold Ultimate, Premium or PC Game Pass for other reasons, play it there and stop reading. Remake is a thirty-to-forty hour single-player game with no live service attached, no seasonal content and no reason to own it permanently unless you intend to replay it. That is close to the ideal subscription game: finite, heavy, and finished when you are finished.

If you do not subscribe, do not start a subscription for this. A month of any tier costs more than our record says a key has cost on most days this year, and when the month ends you own nothing. Buy it instead — but buy it on the right day. The useful target is the median rather than the floor: a listing near $13 is normal, a listing near $8 is the best we have ever seen, and anything close to the official figure means you are shopping on the wrong day. Check the live comparison on the Intergrade price page before you commit.

If you have never bought from a key marketplace, read our guide to whether keyshops are safe first. On this particular game the gap between official and resold is wide enough that the question matters.

The slums do most of the emotional work. If the first two hours land for you, the remaining thirty will. (Official Steam screenshot)

Where you live changes the answer

There is a structural quirk in our data worth knowing before you plan around a purchase. Read on 22 October 2026, we list eleven active sellers for Intergrade in the United States and twelve in the eurozone, nearly all of them key marketplaces. In Australia and New Zealand we find none at all — every offer we can see in those two regions is an official storefront, so the local best price is the official price, with no cheaper route beneath it.

That inverts the advice. A US or UK buyer has a real choice between subscribing and buying cheaply. An Australian buyer comparing Game Pass against the only price their region offers is looking at a much smaller gap, and the subscription wins more easily. Our breakdown of the Game Pass tiers covers which one you actually need; our catalogue pricing study covers whether the subscription pays for itself at all.

What else lands that week, and what leaves on 31 October

Intergrade is not arriving alone. Xbox Wire lists Mouthwashing and Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted on the same day, plus Terrible Lizards; The Séance of Blake Manor lands on 27 October and Pit of Goblin on 3 November. Mouthwashing in particular is an odd one to subscribe for — it is a short, cheap horror game that our record has had at a couple of dollars for most of the autumn, so the subscription saves you very little there.

The departures matter more. On 31 October the service loses Deep Rock Galactic, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Wartales, Wildgate, Dead Static Drive, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris and the three remastered LucasArts adventures. Football Manager 26 follows on 10 November. Deep Rock Galactic is the one to act on: it is a 97%-rated co-op game our record has repeatedly caught at under two dollars, which makes buying it outright a far better trade than keeping a subscription to hold on to it.

Leaving Game Pass on 31 October. Our record has caught it at well under two dollars more than once this year. (Official Steam screenshot)

EPISODE INTERmission is bundled in, not sold separately. It is also the best combat in the package. (Official Steam screenshot)

Is it any good, three years on?

Steam users have it at Very Positive on a little over 53,000 reviews, 87% of them favourable, and the recent trend is flat rather than sagging. The combat is the reason: a hybrid where you hold the action-game inputs and then stop time to spend ATB on spells and items, which annoys people who wanted either a pure action game or a pure turn-based one and delights everyone else. The pacing is the complaint. Remake inflates several short chapters of the original into full dungeons, and the padding is real.

The honest framing is that it is a long, expensive-looking, slightly bloated game that is excellent for about twenty-five of its thirty-five hours. On a subscription you already hold, that is an easy yes. At the official price it is a harder sell, which is precisely why the official price is not what anybody pays.

The original PC announcement trailer, also from Square Enix's official FINAL FANTASY channel.

And the sequel, before you ask

The obvious follow-up question is what happens when you finish Midgar. FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH is not part of this Game Pass wave, and it is a more expensive proposition: our tracked low for it is $12.66, set at Keycense on 20 September 2026, against a median day closer to $16.45 and an official price well above either. FINAL FANTASY XVI sits in similar territory and is also absent from the service.

So the realistic sequence is: play Remake on the subscription, decide whether you want another hundred hours of this, then buy Rebirth on a good day rather than a Tuesday. If you are weighing up this month's other big Square Enix release at the same time, our Final Fantasy Resonance pricing piece covers which edition of that one is worth buying.

Rebirth opens the map back up, and it is not part of this Game Pass wave. (Official Steam screenshot)

Bottom line

Subscribers: play it from 29 October and do not spend a penny more. Everyone else: do not subscribe for one single-player game — buy a key instead, aim for the low-teens that our record says is the normal price rather than the official figure that nobody pays, and treat anything near $8 as the floor. If you are in Australia or New Zealand, where we can find no third-party sellers at all, the subscription is the better deal by a wider margin than it looks anywhere else. And whatever you do, grab Deep Rock Galactic before 31 October.