The Video Games You Should Play This Weekend – November 7

  It's November, which means we can all breathe a little because we survived the onslaught of games released in October (just don't look at our backlogs). Though November is a bit quieter than October, it still has some heaters, like <a href="https://gameinformer.com/product/lumines-arise">Lumines Arise</a>, <a href="https://gameinformer.com/product/hyrule-warriors-age-of-imprisonment">Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment</a>, <a href="https://gameinformer.com/product/fallout-4-anniversary-edition">Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition</a>, <a href="https://gameinformer.com/product/goodnight-universe">Goodnight Universe</a>, <a href="https://gameinformer.com/product/possessors">Possessor(s)</a>, <a href="https://gameinformer.com/product/demonschool">Demonschool</a>, and <a href="https://gameinformer.com/product/call-of-duty-black-ops-7">Call of Duty: Black Ops 7</a>. Okay, hold up – after typing all that out, November isn't as sleepy as I thought...

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        <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-copy field--type-text-long field--label-hidden gi5-field-copy gi5-text-long field__item"><p>With <a href="https://gameinformer.com/digital-issue/2025/11/04/the-dragon-quest-vii-reimagined-digital-issue-is-now-live">the digital launch of the Dragon Quest VII Reimagined issue</a> this week, which I wrote the cover story for, my head continues to be in a Dragon Quest space. Yesterday, while I was writing an upcoming Dragon Quest history breakout story from my <a href="https://gameinformer.com/feature/2025/11/04/the-history-of-dragon-quest-as-told-by-creator-yuji-horii">90-minute interview with series creator Yuji Horii</a>, I learned that the original Dragon Quest is available to purchase on Switch (and playable on Switch 2), and <a href="https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/dragon-quest-switch/?srsltid=AfmBOorFl--wHMKcdHzcreF-z_diUpgUbwcclU0fTLJam-UchzlXTJ-7" target="_blank">it's </a><a href="https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/dragon-quest-switch/?srsltid=AfmBOorFl--wHMKcdHzcreF-z_diUpgUbwcclU0fTLJam-UchzlXTJ-7">on sale for $2.99 until November 20</a>! As someone who's been consuming a lot of Dragon Quest content this month, I was thrilled to stumble across this – I had no idea I could play the original Dragon Quest so easily on my Switch 2 (and for so cheap, too)!

Anyway, it’s definitely an RPG from the 1980s, but man, if there isn’t something incredibly charming about playing such a now-primitive game. It’s a reminder of how important it is not only to look forward as someone who loves video games, but also sometimes to look back and dive into the past. It’s been an illuminating experience so far playing this classic, and I recommend you do the same if you’re looking forward to one day jumping into the recently released Dragon Quest I & II: HD-2D Remake (I still gotta finish III) and the upcoming Dragon Quest VII Reimagined.