Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream
Worth it · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $59.99, a BANGER if it drops to $41.20.
- Length
- 44h
- Value
- $1.36/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 or over, AMD Radeon RX 560 or over, 1280x720, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
A mysterious story of a mysterious dream ... This is a story about one of the adventures Sophie the Alchemist had after she left her hometown of Kirchen Bell.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $29.99, set in July 2024. It has been discounted 27 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Past sales have already crossed the $41.20 BANGER line 23 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grimm's Hollow (free, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Bloomtown: A Different Story ($9.99, scores 70).
83 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 429 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 179 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
93% start to 10% 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
62 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 03:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Atelier at its best, imo. Extraordinarily polished mechanics, battles, music, though of course you really should play the first one so you care about any of these characters.
fight boss, get bodied, make items of its weakness, destroy boss despite clearly being underleveled/geared. Not finished yet but I'm liking the game
Sophie 2 is the gold standard Atelier games should strive to be. It's only real flaw is that there is a bit to much of " Find issue > Go to the Atelier > make item > continue exploring" here. It's present in other games, but most of them either had these events happen at set intervals, like when you explore a ruin in ryza 2, or you had the Atelier accesible from the overworld map, making the issue feel less...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream scores 78/100 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/1621310/atelier-sophie-2-the-alchemist-of-the-mysterious-dreamReviews 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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