Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $27.99.
- Story and characters: 137 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 59 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 57 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews
Based on 856 player reviews · updated 4 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
While it starts as a "four crystals" quest, the narrative is actually a brilliant subversion of a common trope that hides a dark secret in plain sight.
The compositions are live recordings, they sound absolutely divine and Linked Horizon - Revo's band for the game - is a collective of multiple music geniuses and talents, such as the legendary composer and keyboard player Motoi Sakuraba, and composer / conductor Akira Senju (check out his work on Triangle Strategy's soundtrack, another instant Team Asano classic).
Its unique combat mechanics, and the namesake of the series, Default and Brave, are likewise very powerful tools that I feel are almost too impactful to the overall flow of combat.
The gameplay perfectly mirrors the story's themes of defiance and patience.
- Great Music and solid visuals for a remaster of a 3ds game
A nice little JRPG romp that works well on Linux and (obviously) the Steam Deck.
+3 more the community rallied around
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. One more theme was raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and is not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $27.99 (−30%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
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We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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