- All-Star Cast: The Japanese Switch version has an impressive cast, including Mitsuki Saiga, Maaya Uchida, Sora Amamiya, Kōki Uchiyama, Ami Koshimizu, Masaya Onosaka, Rikiya Koyama, Mugihito, Takaya Kuroda, Inori Minase, Norio Wakamoto, Ryūsei Nakao, Yuichi Nakamura, Ai Kayano, Ayako Kawasumi, Takahiro Sakurai, Kenyuu Horiuchi, Kikuko Inoue, Kenichi Ogata, Mami Koyama, Nobuyuki Hiyama, Kenta Miyake, Houko Kuwashima, Tomokazu Seki, Shigeru Chiba, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Fumihiko Tachiki, Akio Ōtsuka, Atsuko Tanaka, Yui Horie, and Miyuki Sawashiro.
- Colbert Bump: The Switch version of the game saw a noticeable boost in interest among western gamers on sale sites such as Amazon after the Hero was introduced as a DLC fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
- Fake Nationality: Gunnar Cauthery is Icelandic-British and gives Erik a bit of an Icelandic accent as a result (fitting, given the character's Viking piracy background); Mia's voice actor is the British Lauren Mote, and she emulates the slight Icelandic lilt.
- Game Mod: There are a few for the PC version(s)note . Some of the more popular ones are one for the Orchestra Overhaul Mod
for the original that adds an orchestrated soundtrack, and Project Rebuild for the Definitive Edition that seeks to revert the graphical downgrades it includes over the original. - Meme Acknowledgement: Not in the usual in-joke sense of "meme", but still something that caught on and spread throughout the fandom: In the Switch version's Tickington quests,note the Dragon Quest IX quests involve a dungeon called the "Ruby Path of Doom". Far from just one of IX's randomized grottoes, this is specifically the name of the infamous "Masayuki's Map" that spread through the playerbase because its 15th floor held nothing but Metal King Slimes.
- Milestone Celebration: While not quite released for Dragon Quest's 30th anniversary, the amount of callbacks to the franchise as a whole, and its western release (especially for the Switch version) being 30 years after the original game, help cement it as this for the Dragon Quest franchise.
- Newbie Boom: XI is easily the most successful DQ title internationally since the original trilogy, and has brought in a large number of new players and newfound fans. "Hero" entering Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as DLC certainly helped, with the Luminary being his default form. This helped propel the game into being one of the most successful titles in franchise history.
- No Dub for You: Inverted with the game's initial release in Japan, which had no voice acting at all, while the western release a year later would include English voice acting. It would not be until the Nintendo Switch port in 2019 that the game would finally receive a Japanese voice track as well.
- No Export for You: Square-Enix elected not to release the Nintendo 3DS version outside of Japan due to the decline in the system's popularity following the release of the Switch.
- Real-Life Relative: In the Switch release, Ayumi Tsunematsu voices Pang and her son Toma Saito voices the Luminary as a child.
- Significant Double Casting: Both the Luminary and Calasmos are voiced by Rasmus Hardiker in the English version, suggesting an innate duality between their respective roles as the harbingers of light and darkness.
- A lesser/more downplayed version: Prince Faris and Golden Boy are both voiced by Sacha Dhawan. Both characters are helped in one way or another by Sylvando.
- Troubled Production: Not the game as a whole, but the Switch port specifically. Square Enix claimed the reason that the port took so long is that the original game was built on an older version of Unreal Engine 4 that didn't support the Switch, and that they needed to update the game to a newer version of the engine, which was a significant undertaking. As a result of the Switch version coming out later, the developers chose to incorporate additional content to make up for the delay.
- What Could Have Been: Dragon Quest XI was being considered as an open world title like Breath of the Wild. If one squints a bit, there are definite remnants of this idea in the final game.
- In an interview with Sylvando's voice actor, he mentions how he originally auditioned for Prince Faris.
- In an interview with Sylvando's voice actor
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