Forspoken
Skip · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 10, under the fair line, at $20.99.
- Length
- 14.3h
- Value
- $1.47/hr
- Reviews
- 63% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 70% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 70% ($20.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB VRAM, 150 GB of storage. Windows only.
Forspoken follows the journey of Frey, a young New Yorker transported to the beautiful and cruel land of Athia. In search of a way home, Frey must use her newfound magical abilities to traverse sprawling landscapes and battle monstrous creatures.
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
September 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $20.99. It has been discounted 25 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today's $20.99 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 7. The current cut is what makes it a 10.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FINAL FANTASY XIV Online ($19.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Lords Of The Fallen™ 2014 ($29.99, scores 3).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 16 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 677 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 28 percent of the 923 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 14.3 hours. Doing everything runs 58, 4.0 times as long.
The drop-off
92% start to 3% 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
31 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 02:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
pretty fun game. the opening hours of the game are slow and the game starts to open up about ~10 hours in, which is almost half of my runtime in the game. it's understandable that people would want more out of a $70 game but this is a solid buy on sale the combat system and traversal are great and makes the game enjoyable. the enemy variety is low and the open world is repetitive, but that's offset by how quickly...
This game was fun. The combat is literally one of the best I have ever seen. I actually went on to platinum this game. A bit of advice to anyone who plans on getting this game, do the Spellcraft challenges, as early as possible so you learn the deeper combat mechanics. I was so distraught to have learnt all these cool combat moves end game. I was blown away by Frey's techniques, I just learned them a bit too late...
If you read any reviews, please read mine. I recommend this game, 12/10. It starts off a little slow, but the character arc and world building are well worth the wait. People may get upset about Frey's perspective and how she responds to certain conflicts, but I think it really rounds her character out and really makes her human. You don't play this game to make your own choices, you play this game to enjoy...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Forspoken scores 10/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1680880/forspokenReviews 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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