Trails in the Sky the 2nd is out now on PC and consoles

Falcom put the sequel out without much ceremony. Trails in the Sky the 2nd, the studio's remake of the second game in its long-running RPG saga, went on sale on 17 September for Nintendo Switch 2, Switch, PlayStation 5 and Steam, according to the game's own product site.

The PC version has been live a little longer than that in western time zones: Steam lists the release as 16 September 2026, with a US price of $59.99 cut by 10% to $53.99 for the launch window. Steam names Nihon Falcom alongside GungHo Online Entertainment America and Clouded Leopard Entertainment as publishers, and lists full controller support across the board.

What you actually get for your money

Falcom's own price list is unusually tidy. Package copies are 8,950 yen on Switch 2 and Switch and 8,800 yen on PS5. The collector's option, the Ouroboros Box, is 13,860 yen. Digitally, the standard editions run 8,800 yen on PS5 and Switch and 8,950 yen on Switch 2, with a Digital Deluxe Edition at 12,650 yen and a Season Pass at 4,180 yen.

The interesting line item is the 150 yen upgrade pass. Anyone who bought the Switch version can pay that once and play the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, which is the same handheld upgrade path Sony has been pushing on PS4 to PS5 for years and which Falcom has now applied to a game it launched on both Nintendo machines on the same day.

Falcom has also kept the marketing machine running since August: a demo went up on 20 August alongside the opening movie, the promotional trailer landed on 7 August, the downloadable content page appeared on 10 September, and the studio is taking the game to Tokyo Game Show.

The sequel to the remake

This is the second of Falcom's chapter-by-chapter rebuilds. Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, the remake of the first game, arrived on Steam on 19 September 2025, which makes this sequel to a remake almost exactly a year newer than the thing it follows.

The story picks up where that one stopped. Estelle Bright, now a fully fledged Bracer rather than a trainee, is looking for Joshua after he walked out at the end of the first chapter, and the trail leads her into the Ouroboros society and the aftermath of the coup in the Liberl Kingdom. That premise is the reason the original second chapter is the one fans treat as the series' pivot: it is where the wider map stops being set dressing.

Our opinion

Falcom is doing something most publishers of a 20-year-old RPG series would never risk: remaking the back catalogue in order rather than jumping to whichever entry sold best. That is why the second chapter arrives a year after the first, with the same engine and the same cast, and why the result feels less like a remake programme and more like a serialised re-release. It is also why the combat and quality-of-life work from 1st Chapter carries straight over, which is the actual argument for buying this one at full price.

The 150 yen upgrade pass deserves more attention than it will get. Nintendo's two machines share a cartridge slot but not a performance profile, and the usual industry answer is to sell owners the same game twice. Charging less for that than a coffee, while shipping the English script on day one with no localisation delay, is the most consumer-friendly thing in this whole release. The 13,860 yen box is for the people who want the art book, and that is fine too.