Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey DX
Skip · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 19.4h 68.5h to 100%
- Value
- $2.06/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 494 positive
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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
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
The definitive edition of the Atelier "Mysterious" series at a new price, with brand new content and various DLCs! "Atelier Firis" is the 2nd instalment: after Firis encounters alchemy and is able to leave town, she is taken on a magical journey that has no limits.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or over, AMD Radeon RX 560 or over, 1280x720, 23 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 29 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 48 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre. On the same math Ikenfell ($19.99, scores 74) and Bloomtown: A Different Story ($24.99, scores 60) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey DX
None of the 421 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to August 2026.
19.4 hours to finish it, 69 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
83% start to 16% 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
- Players online
- 30 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 04:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Atelier Firis is a game I wished I loved. Just like Atelier Sophie, the characters shine in this game. With fun and interesting cutscenes where by time you learn more about them. Unfortunately the main story is very barebones. Firis needs to take the alchemist exam and needs at least 3 recommendations to get them. The end. There is a lot more character development post exam but I didn't want to keep playing. Let me...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is the 5th Atelier game I played. This game is the sequel to Atelier Sophie 2, or at the time of its release, Atelier Sophie. Overall the game itself isn't bad, but there's a few things about the game that makes it way more annoying and tedious to play than it needs to be. Story Telling Let's start off with the story telling. The game is split into 2 parts, the first part is having 365 in game days to gather 3...
I am going to recommend this game BUT I'm also going to warn ya'll that it's grindy AF thanks to the recipe proficiency and mass synthesis features, and it has a pointless time limit that you have to try to fail. You can literally get to Reisenberg with all three letters of recommendation in a third of the time that they give you if you know what you're doing. This is the last game in the atelier franchise to have...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey DX scores 31/100 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/1502980/atelier-firis-the-alchemist-and-the-mysterious-journey-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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.