Neptunia Virtual Stars
Skip · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 4, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 15.7h 27.6h to 100%
- Value
- $2.55/hr
- Reviews
- 57% of 491 positive
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
About the game
Band together with Virtual Idols to save Planet Emote in this music-based hack n' slash!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 or AMD Radeon HD 7970 / R9 280X, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 33 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 96 percent. Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling ($19.99, scores 96) outscores it, and so does FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE ($39.99, scores 47). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Neptunia Virtual Stars
Steam's global achievement data puts about 12 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 15.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 373 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 128 reviews written there were positive, against 57 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
72% start to 12% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 11:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
its more bearable than sisters vs sisters. the story makes sense but the gameplay is totally different from your OG nep games. theres only japanese VA but the other parts of the game are in english. id recommend to buy the game on sale, especially if the vtuber stuff doesnt excite you.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Neptunia Virtual Stars scores 4/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1399840/neptunia-virtual-starsReviews 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 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.