The franchise’s most recent main game, Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age (Dragon Quest XI: Sugisarishi Toki o Motomete), shipped in Japan for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo 3DS in July 2017.
Dragon Quest game series producer Yū Miyake announced on Monday that Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii and Square Enix are currently preparing for development of Dragon Quest XII, the next main game in the series.
The game’s Switch version, Dragon Quest XI S: Sugisarishi Toki o Motomete, is slated for release this fall.