Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea DX
Fair · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 29.1h 66h to 100%
- Value
- $1.37/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 276 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $28.28 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
"A story of two girls fulfilling their wishes." The "Dusk" series, a trilogy of RPG titles from Gust's popular Atelier series, tells the story of a world on the verge ruin, told from the perspective of its unique characters. The 3rd title in the series "Atelier Shallie" is now available as a deluxe version.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX660 or better,1280x720 (Graphic Memory 2GB or better), 17 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 31 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Ikenfell ($19.99, scores 74) and FINAL FANTASY VI ($17.99, scores 87) both outscore it.
More about Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea DX
Steam's global achievement data puts 32 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 232 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The main story runs 29.1 hours. Doing everything runs 66, 2.3 times as long.
The drop-off
68% start to 32% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Great conclusion to the Dusk trilogy, with that said probably my least favorite. The alchemy is only ok and its big gimmick doesn't really shine until the end game. With that said, the combat is pretty fun. It reminds me a bit of FFX, with the switching of characters. I also liked the story and loved the characters. It helps that I love the protags from the previous games and they play a big part in this game. The...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Atelier Shallie is one of the best games I've played in a long time, only beaten by 2 other Ateleir games I like a little more. There is so much to praise about Atelier Shallie, the dual main characters are both fun, and since one campain of the game is half as long as Escha and Logy, playing the second campain is not much of an issue at all. The first quarter of the game is fully unique, and the rest has enough...
Oh my god. I usually would not recommend the Atelier games because their translation isn't particularly good, but this is a whole new level of bad. I am utterly flabbergasted by how awful the localization is. I genuinely cannot recommend this at all. It's on par with the bad localization of the Arland series where a character's name was rewritten into being an STD joke and a young boy's (Gino) character being...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea DX scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1152320/atelier-shallie-alchemists-of-the-dusk-sea-dxReviews 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 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.