Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings DX
Worth it · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99.
- Length
- 40.3h 85.4h to 100%
- Value
- $0.99/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 435 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.
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About the game
The definitive edition of the Atelier "Mysterious" series at a new price, with brand new content and various DLCs! "Atelier Lydie & Suelle" is the 3rd instalment: after discovering a mysterious painting, Lydie & Suelle get closer to their dream of running the best atelier.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or over, AMD Radeon RX 560 or over, 1280x720, 26 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
29 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FINAL FANTASY VI ($17.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Ikenfell ($19.99, scores 74).
More about Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings DX
Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 1 of the 333 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to August 2026.
40.3 hours to finish it, 85 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
83% start to 23% 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
The 6th Atelier game I've played and comes a close to the Mysterious Trilogy. Story Telling The story follows a very simple loop. Get reputation -> Take rank up exam -> Explore a painting -> Repeat. We get a few returning characters to play with from Firis and Sophie while also closing out a lot of arcs of the previous characters this game. It's the finale after all. Firis has become an even greater blast as it...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Compare to Sophie 1 , This is the hardest game to get all achievement in the series Pros : Lydie has good QOL on battle , story is fun as always , beautiful scene , The early game monsters stat are proper to their level and difficulty , new Crafting technique which arguably better or worse Assemble most of character in the series , made me feel nostalgia and they have theirs problem solve in most of them. There are...
The most annoying and grindy of the Atelier games. The characters are twee, QoL features are almost entirely missing. Duplication for example, you can only register a small amount of items to be duplicated. And the story? 22 hours in, NO STORY!!! What the actual... The inventory is tiny, the recipe system is missing huge amounts of info needed. It's just the laziest game in the series. Sophie is miles ahead, skip...
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Cite this score
Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings DX scores 76/100 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/1502990/atelier-lydie-suelle-the-alchemists-and-the-mysterious-paintings-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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.