SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Lycoris
Skip · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 8, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 62.8h 205.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.16/hr
- Reviews
- 61% of 6,835 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 50% off today.
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Enjoy seamless, action-packed real-time battles using a combination of sword skills, sacred arts, and your favorite SAO characters!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 760, 2 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7950, 3 GB, 45 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 45 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $9.99 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Lord of the Rings Online™ (free, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Bless Unleashed (free, scores 0).
More about SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Lycoris
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 62.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 699 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 31 percent of the 773 reviews written there were positive, against 61 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
62.8 hours to finish it, 206 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
78% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
I was super invested with the gameplay and story. It's mostly a visual novel with some combat mixed in but that is the best part! It's immersive and like an anime
1 more review
I love this game so much but I want sword scabbard because when player do not using sword and player do not using sword this sword is gone, I don't like that I want this game has sword scabbard so much.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Lycoris scores 8/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1009290/sword-art-online-alicization-lycorisReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.