NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139...
Worth it · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $23.99.
- Length
- 19.9h
- Value
- $1.21/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon R9 270X; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 26 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $20.99, set in August 2025. 32 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today's $23.99 at 60 percent off still sits 14 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 57 at list, 71 today.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 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 ($19.99, scores 55).
6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,596 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 1,729 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
19.9 hours to finish it, 70 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
80% start to 6% 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
207 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
love this game, played it on xbox first. but genuinely unplayable on keyboard and even if you try to use a controller your mouse cursor wont leave the screen so you have to download a mod just to get rid of it.
NieR Replicant has some of the best writing, cast, and story out of a lot of the games I played. I was very attached to the side cast and appreciated how everyone served purpose in the story. I love how unique everyone's personality was and it really felt like a breath of fresh air. The soundtrack was heavenly and it was one of the main reasons why I stuck through the tedious parts of the game. However, that does...
This game isn't for everyone, it has designs that feel like it was made to waste your time, dozens of quests that are just "give me X amount of this pls!", sections that are just text on a black or white screen and makes it seem like they ran out of budget, to experience the "true story" you have to replay half of the game several times & collect every weapon , and several other details that really irritated me in...
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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NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139... scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1113560/nier-replicant-ver-1-22474487139The 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 18, price as of Sep 24.
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