Final Fantasy Record Keeper

Final Fantasy Record Keeper is a free to play social smartphone game where players participate in memorable battles from the Final Fantasy series.

A North American release was announced for Spring. Pre-registering for the game will grant users certain bonuses depending on the number of pre-registrations. It was soft-launched in the Canada Google Play store on March 17, 2015.

Gameplay
The player assembles a party of up to five members consisting of the main character Tyro as well as various named and generic Final Fantasy characters. With their party, the player visits the various worlds of the non-MMO members of the main Final Fantasy series, and progresses through the game by clearing Record Realms recreated from the game world that they are set in. While in a dungeon, the player may not change party members, equipment, or set abilities. Each dungeon consists of one or more locations, which have one or more Active Time Battles. These battles use pixel art sprites against a 2D background, with sprites being taken from the 2D games in the series, reused from Final Fantasy All the Bravest, or being created fresh in a retro style for the game. Uniquely for the sideline game, Final Fantasy Record Keeper has animated enemy and summon sprites.

The battles in a location are fought consecutively, with Status Effects from each battle carrying over to the next. Once all battles in a location are clear, the player is given a score for that location—"Novice", "Expert", or "Champion" ("Normal", "Good", or "Excellent" in Japanese)—based on time taken, damage received, player characters dead, and Special Score for any bosses that were fought.

Each location has a Stamina cost to challenge it. The player's Stamina score starts out at 20 points with a maximum of 20 possible. Used Stamina points regenerate at a rate of three minutes per point. Maximum Stamina can be increased by collecting Stamina Shards, with each five fragments increasing maximum Stamina by one point.

Damage taken, abilities used, and special move gauge all carry over from each location to the next. Once all locations within a dungeon have been cleared, the player's overall performance based on their scores from each location is used to determine if the player has not just completed a dungeon, but mastered  it. Special First Time Rewards are given for completes and masteries, which can include Stamina Shards, Mythril, equipment, abilities, orbs, new party members, and unlocking further worlds and dungeons. In addition, clearing a dungeon has a Gil reward given each time.

Players may revisit previously completed dungeons at any time and complete them again and again, paying the associated Stamina cost each time, in order to level grind and farm items. Furthermore, mastering a dungeon unlocks a higher level version of the same dungeon known as a Elite Dungeon. Elite Dungeons have much higher Stamina costs, but they yield higher level orbs and have their own separate clear and mastery rewards.

In addition to the normal realms that are always available, the game also has Events which are only available for a limited time. Events usually reward players with characters unavailable by other means. Previous events have been re-run months later, providing another opportunity to acquire those characters. There is also a different daily event for each day of the week. There is a limit on how often events may be challenged.

While the game is free to play, there is a real money cash shop where currency can be exchanged for Gems. Gems may in turn be used to pay for anything that Mythril can be used for at a rate of 97 Gems per piece of Mythril.

Mythril can be used for the following:
 * Resting in a Camp between dungeons, restoring HP, status, and used abilities.
 * Continuing in a realm when the party has been wiped out. This restores the party to full strength as resting does, gives them a random temporary stat bonus, and returns them to the beginning of the location to try again.
 * Instantly regaining all Stamina.
 * Relic Draw, a lottery that awards equipment of varying power and rarity.
 * Increasing the inventory limit for equipment and the inventory limit for abilities, both of which start at 100.

Rarity
Abilities, orbs, Growth Eggs, refining items, weapons, armor, and accessories are rated from one star ☆ to five stars ☆☆☆☆☆. This functions as a power rating of sorts; Thunder is ☆ while Thundaga is ☆☆☆, for example. Abilities require orbs of the same rarity to synthesize. Growth Eggs bestow more EXP when used the more stars they have. Equipment of higher rarity has higher stats than equipment of lower rarity. Naturally, the higher rarity items drop less frequently than lower rarity items off monsters of the same level.

Equipment Upgrades
Each character may equip one weapon, one piece of armor, and one accessory at a time. Weapons and armor may be leveled up via a refinement process carried out by Cid. This costs gil and requires the sacrifice of another piece of equipment. Once the item's level gauge is filled, it levels up and its stats improve. Filling the gauge requires more raw material the higher the level is to be achieved. The item's level limit is based on its rarity, with ☆ equipment having a maximum level of three and ☆☆☆☆☆ equipment having a maximum level of twenty. In addition to using up other pieces of equipment, players may also use Adamantite or Scarletite. Adamantite is better for leveling up armor and scarletite is better for leveling up weapons. Higher rarity refining materials add more to the item's leveling gauge.

Weapons and armor at their maximum levels may be upgraded, gaining a star and a "+" after its name. Thus for example a Battleaxe (☆) may be upgraded to a Battleaxe+ (☆☆). This costs gil and an additional copy of the item to be upgraded. Thus, the player can be faced with a dilemma when an additional piece of hard-to-get equipment is acquired: use it to upgrade their original piece, or use it as equipment? Any given weapon or armor may be upgraded twice.

Ability Synthesis and Upgrades
Each character has slots to equip up to two abilities at a time. Orbs dropped off monsters are used to synthesize abilities. This synthesis is carried out by Cid for a fee in gil. Abilities have a limited number of uses per dungeon, which may be increased up to four times by Cid at a cost in orbs and gil. In order to synthesize Summoning Magic abilities, Summoning Orbs are required, which are only obtained through events.

Soul Breaks
Soul Breaks are Limit Break-like abilities unique to each character that may be used in battle. Soul Breaks consume from one up to the maximum possible three units of the Soul Gauge. Some characters have more than one possible special move. Only the first Soul Break may be freely selected for use; others require that rare special equipment be worn to use it.

Series Origin
Characters, weapons, armor, and accessories can be categorized by their series origin. This is a roman style numeral denoting their game of origin (for example, "VII" for Final Fantasy VII) or the English word "Job" for generic characters (and Tyro). Characters battling in their world of origin are surrounded by a blue aura of power and receive a substantial boost to HP, attack, and defense, this is called "Record Synergy". Equipment worn in battles in its world of origin has its icon border turn blue and also receives a substantial power up.

It is often worthwhile to use equipment that matches the world the player will be fighting in, even if it is weaker. Because new dungeons are released on a regular basis, and new dungeons can be located in any of the worlds, there is an incentive to stockpile a variety of gear in each origin.

Limit Break
The level limit for characters is 50, but Limit Break may be performed to raise this limit by finding a character's Memory Crystal.

Quest System
Players may choose to undertake a Quest at any time they are not in a dungeon by going to the World select screen, pressing the Quest button, and selecting a quest from the quest menu. Each quest has its own reward and its own requirement that must be completed—for example, to clear a certain dungeon. Many of the quests are of a tutorial nature and have requirements such as leveling up a weapon or synthesizing a certain ability. Once the quest is complete, the player then must go to the Item Chest on the main menu to receive their reward. Up to five quests may be queued at a time.

There are 130 quests which include two Special Quests among them. Special Quests award a new character (or a Growth Egg if the player already has that character). Special Quest characters are Tidus and Lenna Charlotte Tycoon, Cecil Harvey, Cecil Harvey(Paladin), and Sephiroth.

Setting
Tyro is tasked by Dr. Mog to stop the darkness from corrupting the stories and memories sealed within magical paintings.

Characters

 * Tyro (Japanese: Deci): Dr. Mog's best student who is tasked with diving into magic paintings and see stories and memories of different worlds.
 * Dr. Mog : A Moogle professor.
 * Cid:

Development
On July 15th, 2014, a teaser site appeared with a timer counting time for the game's actual reveal.