Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake new features list — the quality of life features not present in DQ3 remake

by Mikhail Madnani on 30 October, 2025

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake is now available worldwide for consoles and PC bringing remakes of the first two Dragon Quest games to modern platforms. While Square Enix already added a plethora of quality of life features to Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake features some notable extras that apply to all platforms and also one that applies to just the PC version.

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake new features not present in DQ3 remake

New difficulty options: While Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake included three difficulty options, Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake lets you tweak them a bit more. You are able to enable or disable recovering HP/MP on levelling up and also toggle on invincibility. If you play on Dracky Quest, both of these are enabled by default. With Dragon Quest (the normal difficulty), recovering HP/MP is enabled, but invincibility is greyed out. In Draconian Quest, recovering HP/MP is turned off, but you can enable it. Invincibility is greyed out here as well.
New helpful settings: In addition to enabling Quest Help Text and the Objective Marker like in Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake also lets you display Treasure Chest locations and Secret Spots on the map. Both of these can be enabled or disabled in the Helpful Settings menu.
PC shader compilation: This only really matters for the PC version and mainly on Windows, but Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake now compiles shaders on initial boot (it can take a few minutes) and then checks these (for a few seconds) whenever you launch the game after.

Will the new features be patched into Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake?

Unfortunately, Square Enix tells me that these features will not be patched into Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake. Hopefully we do see them patched in later, at least when it comes to the difficulty options and shader compilation. I know the Secret Spots and Treasure Chest locations would likely take a lot more effort.

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake is now available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC (Steam, Xbox on PC). You can find all our Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake guides here including our complete walkthroughs of Dragon Quest I and Dragon Quest II HD-2D Remake, all Mini Medals (DQ1 and DQ2), Scroll locations (DQ1 and DQ2), and much more.