Chained Echoes
Worth it · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99.
- Length
- 35.1h
- Value
- $0.71/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Radeon R9 200 or equal, 901 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Take up your sword, channel your magic or board your Mech. Chained Echoes is a 16-bit style RPG set in a fantasy world where dragons are as common as piloted mechanical suits.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $8.74. That was September 2026. It has been discounted 25 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 10 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Monster Sanctuary ($19.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition ($34.99, scores 71).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 35.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,372 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 355 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
89% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
173 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 17:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is just a slice of nostalgia. Great story, great team members. It left me wanting more, but also satisfied. quick hit list: Pros: + Great combat. The mechs feel like Xenogears (that's why you looked at it). +Kicking Soundtrack. I put some of the songs on my Spotify rotation. +Diverse party who all have a function. Double ++ for a lizardman berserker caster. Tragic backstory and hella fun to use. +feels like a...
Chained Echoes is the kind of game that feels like it came straight out of my dreams: a 90s-style pixel-art JRPG that pays homage to genre classics such as Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Suikoden, and many others. Developed by a single developer over roughly seven years, Chained Echoes is the quintessential Japanese-style RPG-a genuine love letter to the genre. What the developer understood perfectly is the...
There are 4 Acts as I remember, first 2 are great while the last 2 are a huge mess so I recommend you to lower the difficulty to push through them and avoid tedious regular battles.
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Cite this score
Chained Echoes scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1229240/chained-echoesReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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