NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139...

NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139...

Fair · RPG · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$59.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$23.9960% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$3.00/hr
Reviews▼
88% of 28,600
Genre rank
Top 13% RPG

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Why
It needs 51% off ($29.11) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $23.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
20h
To 100%
70.1h 3.5x the story
Achievements
47

Price and sales

Sales
32 on record
Typical cut
60% off
Steam low
$20.99 August 2025
Sale every
57d last September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $20.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
199 now
Recent reviews
83% 30 days
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
92% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

80% start to 6% 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

32 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen ($29.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats FINAL FANTASY XVI ($49.99, scores 49).

More about NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139...

7 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,071 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 1,733 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.

20 hours to finish it, 70 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.5 times the campaign.

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
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$3.00/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
For context
Refunds7 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

In many aspects, such as gameplay appeal, enemy design, storytelling and pacing, level design, and the variety of environments, NieR Replicant falls behind NieR: Automata. However, the important thing to remember is that NieR: Automata stands at an almost unreachable peak in these areas, and being below that peak does not mean that NieR Replicant lacks value. It is still a game that deserves a full playthrough and...
mojtabafaratin2003Recommendedafter 16h17 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
if you are between ages of 15 and 62 and are depressed, or not depressed, or gay, or not gay, or hearing, or not hearing, you need to play this japanese role playing action game
Scanned by David Lynch & Kyle MRecommendedafter 125h13 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Probably the most monotonous side quests and gameplay I've experienced in gaming so far, which does not even come slightly to mattering comparing to how incredible the story is
TyKeDoPWNZRecommendedafter 47h8 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

The upgraded prequel of NieR:Automata. A kind young man sets out with Grimoire Weiss, a strange talking book, to search for the "Sealed verses" in order to save his sister Yonah, who fell terminally ill to the Black Scrawl.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon R9 270X; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 26 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139... scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1113560/nier-replicant-ver-1-22474487139
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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 Oct 15, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperSquare Enix
PublisherSquare Enix
GenreRPG
Released2021
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements47