Granblue Fantasy is getting ready for its biggest expansion yet with Endless Ragnarok. I was able to get an inside look at the game at Summer Game Fest 2026. First, we had a presentation, then we got some hands-on time with the game, and finally, we got to ask questions to some of the staff at Cygames!
The Presentation
The presentation discussed the origin of Granblue Fantasy as a browser game that later became a mobile app, and its eventual addition to Steam. It was something that I already had an idea of, but it was good to go over its history. They then discussed the console game of Granblue Fantasy Versus. And then finally reached the time of creating Granblue Fantasy Relink.
The first thing to note is that Granblue Fantasy: Relink was set as a single game with only three planned updates to the game as DLC. Due to the hunger for more Granblue Fantasy Relink and an explosion of desire in the community to port the game to Switch, there were plans set in motion for what became Endless Ragnarok.
Endless Ragnarok is going to not only be an expansion on the main game, it will also add QoL features in the game. It will make certain aspects of the original game more streamlined so new players can quickly join the older players in the Endless Ragnarok expansion. Save files from the base game can be transferred over to Endless Ragnarok so veteran players can have all the goodies they grinded for in the endgame stay with them. There will also be roguelite game mode brought in with the conflux. Conflux will let you get even stronger and unique sigils.
Endless Ragnarok will bring in a brand new mastery system as well. This mastery system allows characters to enhance three playstyles they will have available. Certain characters like the Captain will be benefitted by using these playstyles as you can enhance your damage by successfully healing a party member. It also in turn increases the amount healed. Cygames wanted to give an incentive to use buffs and healing that isn’t just bigger numbers but more help to the party.
They also explained their choices to include Beatrix and Eustace as playable characters. They felt they wanted another faction to have four playable characters so they decided on the society. Zeta and Ignael are the first two units that were in the game and so to get the faction more represented in the game, they brought in two more. Magelia and Gallanza were added as the community had a large push to try to get these two characters as playable since they were actively in the game but not playable. Fediel and Fraux were added as a way to finish off a six person expansion with all six attributes. Also they wanted to include characters not from Granblue Fantasy Versus so Granblue Fantasy Relink had characters unique of the fighting game. (So maybe we should have a community push to include Rolan as a playable character!)
The next part explained summons. You have a bar on the bottom left that has three segments. Smaller summons utilize one or two segments, with giant ones requiring all three to be used. You hold the skill RB button, and you can press the directional buttons to summon. You can then become the summoned creature and use that creature’s attacks. The explanation for including summons is that there were a lot of NPCs and monsters that were not playable that the director wanted to be playable. The ambition was over 100 summons to include. To have a ton of unique playstyles and playable personalities in the game.
We will get to see just how close the actual mechanic gets to fulfilling that ambition. The team was very happy about making this come to fruition. There is over 20 hours of new story content with over double that of new quests added. Granblue Fantasy: Relink Endless Ragnarok is officially 1.5x the size of the original game which includes streamlining the original content.
The Hands-On Demo
The demo takes place directly after the proto Bahamut fight where Endless Ragnarok starts. Lyria can now help your team with utilizing summons. You are then given three summons to utilize. I used Rock Golem mostly since it only required two bars to summon. Once the segment is full, you can use it immediately. After the summoning tutorial is finished, Seofan and Tweyen join the gang to help unlock the new difficulty of missions, Chaos. I was given free rein of the game once the difficulty was unlocked. I played a single mission as Eustace just to get a feel for him.
Eustace is an agile ranged fighter. He uses a gun, but he is also constantly in motion. He has an ability that can counter an enemy’s attack, which launches him into the air and shoots a barrage of bullets down. He can also charge his normal attacks. The Y button ability was just to reload his gun. He has a UI next to the character model that shows how many bullets are in the gun.
I then joined the Conflux mode and chose Fediel to try out. Conflux mode has you fight a bunch of people and then ends with you choosing a buff to take on to the next stage. You will get two options of stages to choose from at the end of each one.
Fadiel was a blast to play as. She is a far-ranging fighter who can dish out tons of damage. A lot of her attack skills are area-of-effect attacks that hurt big groups of enemies, perfect for the Conflux mode. If you hold her attack, she starts charging a Frieza-esque death ball to launch at an enemy. Her Y ability was voidswalk. Voidswalk allows her to dive into the floor and attack from the bottom of the enemy forces. You’ve got to select where you come out fast, though, so you don’t get enemies next to you.
I had a blast so time went by quickly before I had to get off. The last section was a group Q/A with some of the team at Cygames.
Q/A
For the Q/A portion of the presentation, we were able to ask questions to the creative director of the Granblue Fantasy series, Tetsuya Fukuhara, and the director of Granblue Fantasy: Relink Endless Ragnarok, Sanshiro Hidaka.
The first question asked was if Endless Ragnarok was going to be the end of support for Granblue Fantasy: Relink. Were we going to see more?
Essentially, Cygames was surprised to have worked on Endless Ragnarok. They didn’t expect to do more on Granblue Fantasy: Relink after the first three DLC packs. If there was still a desire and a community that wanted more, then they would likely work more on the game. If not, then they would move to work on something else. They reiterated that Granblue Fantasy: Relink was an online action game, not a live service one.
I did not record the full Q/A, so the bits I do have written down here will be either paraphrases or the sparknotes of everything moving forward.
The next big question was how the game was to be put on the Nintendo Switch 2 and if there were any difficulties.
Due to some of their team already being experienced developing with DLSS in mind, the port to Nintendo Switch 2 didn’t give them much difficulty. They were excited to bring it over, and they even said it was exciting to try out the local wireless mode so you could play with nearby friends who were also on Nintendo Switch 2.
The next question asked about the Quality of Life features that were included in the game.
Cygames categorized the complaints and requests of the Granblue Fantasy: Relink community into 700 different things for them to work on integrating into Endless Ragnarok. So they added and implemented a lot, but the specifics would be announced at a later date.
There is also a new backup system added in Endless Ragnarok, which incentivizes adding friends in the game. Basically, you can select someone from your own character list to add as a backup member. This backup member is for your friends to use in their game. So new players can add veteran players as friends and get access to a much stronger party member in their game. This will help even further streamline the old game’s content.
I made a quip about this being the true Granblue Fantasy experience since you can do that in the browser game too. The quip was then utilized as a way to ask my question about if there were any plans for other console game experiences for Granblue Fantasy in case Endless Ragnarok satisfies the community enough not to need more, or if not enough people play it.
They responded very taken aback, as if they hadn’t thought about it before. They immediately answered with “Maybe a First Person Shooter” Then started laughing. After a few jokes of type of games they could do, they then responded seriously, as one game type they thought about doing before Relink was a single player cinematic RPG, and that they might just try it in case the online action multiplayer option isn’t the direction to go.
I was very pleased with my time with Granblue Fantasy: Relink Endless Ragnarok, and I am even more excited to learn more about the game as we get more information. There is definitely more to look at. My snippet of time was definitely not enough to get the detail I wanted from the expansion, but thats probably just due to how big this expansion is going to be. I did not expect the expansion to be as big or as grand as it will be.
Granblue Fantasy: Relink is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC. It will launch on Nintendo Switch 2 the same day as the new content release, Endless Ragnarok, July 9th, 2026. You can purchase the new content as an upgrade pack on the previous platforms as well. You can also read our review of the base game Granblue Fantasy: Relink.
