Famitsu Scores: Granblue Fantasy Relink Endless Ragnarok Nets 35/40, Leads July 20 Week
Famitsu’s weekly Cross Review has handed Granblue Fantasy: Relink – Endless Ragnarok a combined 35 out of 40, the standout result in a five-game round-up published for the week of July 20, 2026. The influential Japanese magazine’s four-critic panel scored Cygames’ expansion 9/9/8/9, with Staffer Retro: A Supernatural Mystery Quest, D-topia, Monster Girls and the Mysterious Adventure Remastered Edition and Yog-Sothoth’s Yard also going under the Cross Review microscope, as first compiled by Nintendo Everything.
Famitsu’s format hasn’t changed in decades: four reviewers each hand down a mark out of 10, and the four are added together for a score out of 40. That system means Endless Ragnarok’s 9/9/8/9 line translates to 35/40, comfortably the best showing of the week and only a handful of points shy of the perfect 40 scores the magazine has awarded just a few dozen times in its history.
Endless Ragnarok’s 35/40 Backs Up Its Global Critic Reception
The Famitsu number lands squarely in line with how Western outlets have received the expansion since its July 9 launch. Publisher Cygames and developer Cygames Osaka announced Granblue Fantasy: Relink – Endless Ragnarok for PlayStation 5, Switch 2, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam, with the expansion launching on July 9 for $59.99 / €59.99, and it arrived worldwide on schedule as part of that week’s Japanese release slate. According to sales data compiled by Gematsu, Granblue Fantasy: Relink – Endless Ragnarok on Switch 2 opened at 12,544 units sold in its debut week in Japan, a solid if modest physical showing that sits alongside strong digital and PS5 sales.
Aggregator OpenCritic currently rates the expansion “Strong” based on Western reviews, and critics have broadly praised the same things Famitsu’s panel appears to have rewarded: a deepened endgame loop bolted onto an already-acclaimed action RPG. RPGFan’s review noted that both newcomers and returning players will find a hefty amount of content to get lost in, while also flagging that the expansion’s story largely rides on the strength of the base game’s cast. Other outlets have been blunter about who the content is really for, with RPG Site observing that taking Endless Ragnarok’s relatively short two-year development cycle into account, it is a highly impressive expansion to Relink, though it’s important to set expectations of what it brings to the table.
Staffer Retro’s Supernatural Mystery Nearly Matches It at 33/40
Just behind Cygames’ expansion, Staffer Retro: A Supernatural Mystery Quest picked up an 8/8/9/8 spread from Famitsu’s reviewers, good for 33 out of 40. That’s the kind of score Famitsu typically reserves for well-regarded genre entries rather than blockbuster tentpoles, suggesting the mystery-adventure title has landed cleanly with its target audience without quite threatening the week’s top spot.
D-topia’s 30/40 Lines Up With Its Thoughtful, Puzzle-Driven Pitch
Famitsu’s four critics gave D-topia a 7/8/7/8 line, adding up to 30/40. The AI-society puzzle-narrative game has been building a similar reputation abroad: aggregator OpenCritic places it in the 60th percentile of scored games, with reviewers describing it as an experience where there’s certainly an audience for D-topia, and players looking for accessible puzzling and an optimistic slice of speculative science fiction will find something to enjoy. Nintendo Life’s coverage of the game frames its hook around a player character serving as a facility “Facilitator” tasked with keeping an AI-run settlement running smoothly, a premise that lines up with the moderate-but-respectable Famitsu tally.
Monster Girls Remaster and Yog-Sothoth’s Yard Close Out the Week
Rounding out the five games covered in this week’s Cross Review, Monster Girls and the Mysterious Adventure Remastered Edition scored 8/8/7/7 for a 30/40 total, matching D-topia’s overall tally despite a different critic spread. Yog-Sothoth’s Yard, the Lovecraft-flavoured hotel management and dating sim previously detailed by Famitsu itself on social media, picked up 7/7/8/7 for 29/40, the most modest score of the five but still comfortably on the positive side of the ledger by Famitsu’s historical standards, where the lowest score ever recorded sits at just 12 out of 40.
None of the five titles in this week’s batch have confirmed Australian or New Zealand retail release plans at the time of writing, though Endless Ragnarok’s PlayStation Store and Nintendo eShop listings are already live for local accounts via the worldwide digital rollout that accompanied its July 9 launch. Fans in the region chasing the expansion’s harder boss fights and new Conflux roguelite mode can already download it through their regional storefronts rather than waiting on a physical release.
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