Persona 4 Golden
BANGER · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 67h
- Value
- $0.30/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 | AMD Radeon HD 5770, 14 GB of storage. Windows only.
A coming of age story that sets the protagonist and his friends on a journey kickstarted by a chain of serial murders.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in April 2025. 40 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, FINAL FANTASY VI ($10.79, scores 87) and Grimm's Hollow (free, scores 93) both come in lower.
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 January 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 4,882 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
It came out 6 years ago and 962 were still playing it at the last check.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
77% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
962 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
i never played any persona before this one , so when sale showed off , i decided to give it a chance and now , like WOW its a great game i love the vibe of the rainy nights ! it just feel so real , the story it self is great and not boring at all , characters are really perfect and real! , so i hope if you never played any persona before you would go down for this one ! have fun
my first persona series game and whattt a banger man the start of the game is slow and the graphics are out of date obviously, but the more and more I played the better and better it got, the cast is so real and genuinely feel like characters. Everyone feels multi-layered and characters have flaws AND character development. It is extremely grind-heavy for sure, but while I grinded I would watch the persona 4 anime...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Persona 4 Golden scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1113000/persona-4-goldenThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 24.
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