Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is a turn-based strategy RPG centered around the Heroic Games, a tournament where warriors with different motivations compete for a chance to have their greatest wish granted by…

94 17 September 2026

Role-playing (RPG) Simulator Tactical Turn-based strategy (TBS) Fantasy Warfare

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Intelligent Systems, released 17 September 2026 on Nintendo Switch 2.

Verified 13 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Intelligent Systems and released in 2026. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is an upcoming tactical role-playing video game published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch 2. Taking place in the Dagdan Empire, the premise revolves around the Heroic Games in which four playable protagonists participate to earn their desired wish. It will be the eighteenth main installment in the Fire Emblem series, following Fire Emblem Engage (2023).

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Fire Emblem series

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is the 66th of 66 entries we hold in the Fire Emblem series. It arrived 12 months after Fire Emblem Shadows. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 94 is 14 points above the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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How it was received

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave holds a critic score of 94 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2026 averaged 78, so it scored 16 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave launched on 17 September 2026, within three weeks of Marvel's Wolverine, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Control Resonant and Onimusha: Way of the Sword. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 9 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Wolverine, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Control Resonant, Onimusha: Way of the Sword.

Cheats and codes

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