Final Fantasy III Release Date: Square Enix today announced that Final Fantasy III, one of the best-loved games from the epic RPG series, is coming soon to Steam. In order to celebrate it, the big publisher has also released the first PC screenshots for the game that can be viewed below.

First released in Japan in 1990, Final Fantasy III was the first title in the Final Fantasy series to become a million-seller, establishing once and for all that Square Enix's classic RPG saga was here to stay. The game first reached European shores in 2007 when it launched as a 3D remake on the Nintendo DS, also selling in excess of one million copies worldwide.

The gameplay contains elements of the first two Final Fantasy games, along with some new features. The Experience point system featured in the original Final Fantasy makes a return following its absence from Final Fantasy II. Final Fantasy III has a new class system; unlike the original Final Fantasy, where the player chooses each character's class at the start of the game, and Final Fantasy II, that has no specific classes, Final Fantasy III introduces the Job System the series would later become famous for.

Out of all four party members and all 23 Jobs in the game, there are 8,855 different party configurations. The Jobs are interchangeable classes: all four characters, the Warriors of the Light, start out as either "Onion Knights" (in the Famicom Version) or "Freelancers" (in the DS, PSP & smartphone remakes), and are given the option to switch to a variety of other classes as more crystals are found and sidequests are completed.

As Square Enix claimed, Final Fantasy III has been optimised for PC gaming with new and improved 3D visuals and story sequences, and will include Steam Trading Cards and Achievements and new visual designs for the Job Mastery Cards.