FINAL FANTASY VIII - REMASTERED
Skip · RPG · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 48, under the fair line, at $7.99.
- Length
- 38.1h
- Value
- $0.21/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, AMD Radeon R7 240 / NVIDIA GeForce GT 730, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The mega-hit RPG, FINAL FANTASY VIII returns! This Steam® version features new graphical enhancements and a whole host of options to customise your gameplay experience.
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
The value story
February 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $7.99. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 38 in the 7 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 21 percent on value. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 60 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FINAL FANTASY VIII ($4.79, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats FINAL FANTASY® XIII ($6.39, scores 47).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 38.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 35 percent of the 826 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
79% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
194 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 17:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A lot of people complain about the story. I don't really understand the complaints. I thought the story was amazing. The music is also really good (usually). The game is old and it looks like it's old, but it is originally from 1999 so without a full-scale remaster/remake, this is what I expected from a remaster of this type (i.e. a relatively low-effort port). The negative parts of the game are all located in the...
My favorite game in the series. First time played it 25 years ago. Still holds up for me. Love the story and characters. Junction systems can be a little bit tricky to grasp, but when you do it's really cool how you can brake a game. Drawing magic can be some tedious, but when FF was without a bit of grind? Remaster looks good, but i still prefer old PS1 look. For Steam Deck users. If you have trouble with game...
Now that I'm finally free of the pain this game has brought me, it's time to list all the reasons why you shouldn't get this disaster of a game: 1) Performance issues that range from random launch issues to random crashes while playing 2) Pixel hunting is so severe, I had to constantly look up videos on where to go next 3) The dreadful Junction mechanic that did nothing but waste hours of my time 4) Enemies' levels...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
FINAL FANTASY VIII - REMASTERED scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1026680/final-fantasy-viii-remasteredReviews 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 18, price as of Oct 1.
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