A new leak seemingly confirmed the existence of various games, namely a new Turok and the long-rumored Final Fantasy 9 remake.
Although it’s been rumored for years, there hasn’t been any official word on whether a Final Fantasy 9 remake is actually in development.
The first whisper came from a 2021 Nvidia leak, which has since proven to be extremely accurate. While this has yet to materialize, rumors resurfaced last year before Summer Game Fest.
However, a new leak via the Epic Games Store offers the most concrete evidence yet that something related to Final Fantasy 9 is in the works, although it’s unclear whether it’s a remake or something else entirely.
The leak is courtesy of the recently launched EpicDB, a website that tracks the behind-the-scenes activity of the Epic Games Store in the same vein as SteamDB for Steam. Following the site’s launch this week, codenames for various projects seem to have come out from major publishers such as Sega, Sony, Square Enix and many more.
After the codenames circulated on ResetEra, Epic Games blocked the website and other third-party tools from accessing the store — suggesting that the leak has at least some legitimacy, whether it’s unannounced games or abandoned projects.
While most codenames are difficult to decipher because they are so abstract, there is evidence for some sort of Final Fantasy 9 project under the name “Momo”. Along with Square Enix’s registration comes the codename with a number of other offers, including a ‘Thief’s Knives’ pre-order bonus and a ‘Tetra Master Starter Pack’.
The latter is a key giveaway, as Tetra Master is a minigame from the original Final Fantasy 9, which was released on the original PlayStation in 2000.
The list hasn’t been updated since 2023, but it’s still a very strong indicator that something related to Final Fantasy 9 is in the works, so it may simply be a matter of time before Square Enix makes an announcement.
If it is a remake, the biggest question is whether it will have the same big budget as the remakes of Final Fantasy 7. It was split into a trilogy, with the second game, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, coming out in February of this year.
Elsewhere in the leak, the listing under Saber Interactive is simply titled “Turok” – it’s unclear if this refers to a new game in the series or a remaster. Turok, a first-person shooter where you hunt dinosaurs, originally debuted on the Nintendo 64 in 1997, but the last entry was a reboot for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2008.
There’s already plenty of speculation about what the other codenames might be, including an entry that some believe is allegedly a PC port of the original Red Dead Redemption. As always, though, we’ll have to wait and see which projects actually pan out.
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