Persona 4 Golden

Persona 4 Golden

BANGER · RPG · 2020

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$19.99BANGER

Typical seasonal cut

$9.9950% offBANGER

Cost per hourS
$0.30/hr
ReviewsS
97% of 88,265
Critics
87 players 10 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% RPG
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
67.1h
To 100%
132.9h 2.0x the story
Achievements
50

Price and sales

Sales
41 on record
Typical cut
40% off
Steam low
$9.99 April 2025
Sale every
47d last September 2026
Lowest now $9.19 at Fanaticalall-time low $8.36 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
752 now
Recent reviews
96% 30 days
Cheaper than
10% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

77% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

41 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, FINAL FANTASY VI ($17.99, scores 87) and Grimm's Hollow (free, scores 93) both come in lower.

More about Persona 4 Golden

Critics scored it 87. Players sit 10 points higher at 97 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 4,883 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.30/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
DRMDenuvo
Denuvo copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds3 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

finally, after finishing all Persona games available on Steam I can say that Persona 4 is THE BEST one. if you want to get into Persona - start with Persona 5. although, if you want to experience the best story, characters and music ever created in Persona universe - this is the one, don't let the old looking graphics fool you. going back to Inaba feels like coming home. 100/10 ♥
MY NAME IS JOHN MARSTON!Recommendedafter 91h13 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
never played a persona game before P4G and it hit WAY harder than expected. Started as a basic murder mystery in a quiet town then suddenly i was saying goodbye to REAL FRIENDS when the credits rolled. the music, atmosphere and emotional damage were peak. I honestly just wish i could erase my memories of this game so i can experience it for the first time again, absolute MASTERPIECE. 10/10. (btw Adachi is my goat)
epichazelRecommendedafter 55h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Group of teens go into tv land while solving a murder in a lovely little town, beating the absolute crap out of the repressed emotions of other people
O-02-62Recommendedafter 115hOct 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

A coming of age story that sets the protagonist and his friends on a journey kickstarted by a chain of serial murders.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 | AMD Radeon HD 5770, 14 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Persona 4 Golden scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1113000/persona-4-golden
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Reviews 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 Nov 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+10
Critics87
Players97
Metacritic critics · 88,265 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperATLUS
PublisherSEGA
GenreRPG
Released2020
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements50