The Last Remnant

Steam continues to make inroads to being the premiere platform for PC game distribution by signing on one major publisher after another. Today Valve announced that SquareEnix, a major console RPG publisher, will be distributing their epic saga “The Last Remnant” to PC users via Steam on April 9.

The Last Remnant is a fairly typical Japanese-style RPG; a young, unlikely hero and his ragtag band of friends are the only thing that stand in the way of an epic, world-threatening power. It is the plot of almost every SquareEnix game in the last decade, including all of the Final Fantasy games. It is the first SquareEnix game, however, that has been developed using the Unreal Engine 3—also the engine behind their upcoming sure-to-be-blockbuster Final Fantasy XIII.

Because the game is developed using a PC-compatible game engine, a PC release makes sense; without a solid platform like Steam in place, however, games like this may never have made it to PC.

The game will also utilize Steamworks, which means you will probably be able to store save games and configuration customization  in the cloud, and it will follow you wherever you log in.