Dragon Ball Xenoverse

Dragon Ball Xenoverse PC is a third-person action RPG fighter built around custom characters, time-travel missions, and fast 3D battles across the Dragon Ball universe. The current Steam and Bandai Namco listings still use the original name, DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE; it has not been rebranded as Xenoverse 2 or another edition. Developed by Dimps and published by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment, it sits between an arena fighter and a progression-focused anime RPG.

The result is less like a traditional tournament fighter and more like a playable Dragon Ball campaign where your own warrior becomes part of the series timeline.

Custom Avatar Combat In A 3D Arena

The central hook is the custom Avatar system. You create a fighter from one of five available groups: Earthling, Saiyan, Majin, Namekian, or Frieza Clan. Appearance options establish the visual identity, while progression lets you shape the character through attributes, equipment, abilities, and learned techniques.

Combat takes place in open 3D arenas rather than a flat two-dimensional ring. Fighters can move freely through the battlefield, fly around opponents, launch melee strings, fire Ki attacks, guard, vanish, transform, and use signature special moves. The camera stays close behind the active character, making positioning and target management important when several combatants share the same arena.

The basic loop is straightforward: accept a mission, fight through a distorted Dragon Ball scenario, earn experience and rewards, then improve your build before taking on a harder challenge. Real-time transformations, team battles, destructible surroundings, and cinematic attacks give the encounters their anime presentation without turning the game into a pure competitive fighter.

Time Patrol Story And Parallel Quests

Instead of simply replaying the familiar storyline, Xenoverse places your character inside altered versions of major Dragon Ball events. Trunks and the Time Patrol send you to repair time distortions involving recognizable figures such as Goku, Vegeta, Frieza, Cell, and Majin Buu.

That structure gives the campaign a useful reason to revisit famous battles. You may fight alongside a series hero, protect an important event, or deal with an enemy whose presence changes the expected outcome. The original characters Mira and Towa help establish the game's separate conflict, while Toki Toki City acts as the main hub for preparing your next mission.

Beyond the main story, Parallel Quests provide repeatable objectives with alternate conditions and reward tables. These missions are where much of the long-term progression happens. Players can return to earlier scenarios to hunt for techniques, clothing, accessories, capsules, and other rewards, although some drops depend on completing specific conditions rather than simply defeating every opponent.

Masters, Skills, And Character Progression

The Master System lets you train under selected Dragon Ball characters. Each mentor provides a different set of lessons and exercises, gradually unlocking techniques associated with that character. A chosen Master can also appear during combat as a support presence, connecting the progression system directly to the battle loop.

Build variety comes from combining attributes, equipment, skills, and consumable items. Your Avatar can equip basic attacks, strike supers, Ki supers, evasive actions, and ultimate techniques. Clothing and accessories can affect performance, while level gains allow you to invest in the statistics that match your preferred approach.

This makes Xenoverse a better fit for players who enjoy experimenting with loadouts than for players looking for a tightly balanced esports fighter. A Saiyan focused on transformations and Ki attacks plays differently from a durable Majin or a melee-oriented Earthling, even though all characters use the same broad combat controls.

Base Game And Paid Content

Dragon Ball Xenoverse is a paid game, not a free-to-play release. The base package contains the custom Avatar campaign, Toki Toki City, story missions, Parallel Quests, mentor training, single-player battles, and multiplayer features listed by the Steam edition.

The current Steam catalog separates the base game from four DLC products: GT Pack 1, GT Pack 2, the Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' Pack, and the Movie DLC Costume Pack. The listed Season Pass covers the three main content packs rather than the separate movie costume product.

These add-ons expand the roster, missions, techniques, costumes, and related rewards. Anyone buying the original game should therefore distinguish between the standard edition and bundles that include the Season Pass or individual DLC, because the core Avatar progression and the extra licensed content are sold separately.

Multiplayer And PC Features

Steam lists single-player and co-op functionality, along with Steam Achievements, Cloud support, Leaderboards, Family Sharing, and Remote Play support for phone, tablet, and TV. The PC edition also supports controllers, which is the most natural input method for its movement, camera, attack, and shortcut layout.

Multiplayer is built around cooperative missions and versus-style battles rather than a persistent MMO world. Toki Toki City provides the social setting, while missions and battles supply the actual gameplay. Local play is best understood as a separate-versus option, not as a full local campaign co-op replacement for the online mission structure.

The Steam listing identifies a required third-party EULA and provides interface and subtitle support in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese, with English and Japanese full audio. Japanese is available as audio rather than as a full interface language in the storefront language table.

Who Should Play Dragon Ball Xenoverse?

Xenoverse is aimed at Dragon Ball fans who want to create their own fighter and participate in recognizable saga moments. The custom character, mentor training, gear collection, and alternate-timeline story give it more progression depth than a conventional roster-based arena fighter.

It also works for players who prefer accessible action controls, mission-based progression, and repeatable objectives. The game does not demand the same frame-by-frame precision or tournament discipline as a dedicated 2D fighter, but it still rewards learning evasive movement, stamina management, target switching, and the timing of supers.

Players seeking a deep competitive fighting system, a large open world, or a fully cooperative local campaign should set their expectations carefully. Xenoverse is structured around compact missions, hub preparation, character building, and anime-style battles rather than unrestricted exploration or traditional arcade competition.

Similar Anime Fighters On PC

For another anime arena fighter with story content, a large character roster, and local versus play, anime-focused 3D brawlers such as Naruto X Boruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections offer a useful comparison. The Naruto title is more focused on its own saga presentation, while Xenoverse places greater emphasis on Avatar creation, RPG statistics, mentors, and repeatable quests.

Dragon Ball Xenoverse is also distinct from a conventional team fighter. Its appeal comes from combining custom builds, timeline-based missions, recognizable mentors, and repeatable rewards with fast arena combat. That hybrid structure is the main reason to choose it over a game designed purely around versus matches.

Dragon Ball Xenoverse FAQ

These answers address the practical questions PC players usually have before choosing the original Xenoverse.

Is Dragon Ball Xenoverse still called the same thing on PC?

Yes. The current Steam and Bandai Namco pages use DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE. It has not been renamed to Xenoverse 2, Xenoverse 3, or a definitive-edition title.

Is Dragon Ball Xenoverse an RPG or a fighting game?

It is a hybrid 3D action RPG fighter. Battles use arena-fighting controls, while the wider structure includes Avatar creation, levels, attributes, equipment, mentors, skills, missions, and reward hunting.

Can you create your own Dragon Ball character?

Yes. You can create an Avatar from the Earthling, Saiyan, Majin, Namekian, or Frieza Clan groups, customize its appearance, and develop its combat build through stats, clothing, abilities, and mentor training.

Does the PC version support co-op?

Steam lists co-op support. Cooperative play is tied to the game's mission and online features, while local play is primarily associated with versus battles rather than a complete shared-screen campaign.

What DLC is available for the original Xenoverse?

The Steam catalog lists GT Pack 1, GT Pack 2, the Resurrection 'F' Pack, and a Movie DLC Costume Pack. A Season Pass bundles the three main content packs, while the movie costume content is listed separately.

Does it support controllers on PC?

Yes. The Steam page includes Controller among its supported features, and the game's movement-heavy arena combat is generally designed around a gamepad-style layout.