SaGa Frontier Remastered

SaGa Frontier Remastered

Worth it · RPG · 2021

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $24.99.

Length
15.4h 55.3h to 100%
Value
$1.62/hr
Reviews
91% of 648 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each 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

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement35% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.62/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 344 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

About the game

The beloved 1998 RPG Classic, SaGa Frontier, is reborn with improved graphics, additional features, and a new main character!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4000, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

30 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FINAL FANTASY V ($17.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats FINAL FANTASY II ($11.99, scores 63).

More about SaGa Frontier Remastered

Steam's global achievement data puts 35 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 2 of the 344 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to August 2026.

15.4 hours to finish it, 55 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.

Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.

The drop-off

83% start to 35% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam 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

I am not recommend because you shall understand how to play this game, It is not RPG style Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest turn base
FYINot recommendedafter 30hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The Remastered is awesome and introduces lots of quality of life improvements to this game. The biggest ones are the New Game+ that carries over your items, equipment and arts/skill. Since there are multiple heroes and when you complete one story you don't have to regrind again. If a hero appears in a previous story and you leveled that hero, the hero will appear with the same skills and magic unlocked! There is...
HyperhopNot recommendedafter 55hJun 2026Read on Steam
Otherwise known as SaGa Tapas: a sampler platter of tasty little morsels, boasting a wide array of flavors all produced from a relatively small batch of shared ingredients. It's bizarre even by SaGa standards, a surreal trans-genre patchwork where cyberpunk, fantasy, martial arts, domestic melodrama, space opera, and gothic fairy tale are all tossed into a turn-based dogpile. At times, it felt like a bunch of...
Chaz BufflewhiffRecommendedafter 55hAug 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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SaGa Frontier Remastered scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1295270/saga-frontier-remastered
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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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSquare Enix
PublisherSquare Enix
GenreRPG
Released2021
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements46