Persona 5 Royal
BANGER · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $59.99.
- Length
- 101.3h
- Value
- $0.59/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 2 GB | AMD Radeon R7 360, 2 GB, 41 GB of storage. Windows only.
Lead the Phantom Thieves of Hearts in this award winning, stylish turn-based RPG filled with dungeon crawling, party customization, strategic combat, and Persona fusion. Explore Tokyo, build relationships, battle Shadows, and infiltrate the minds of the corrupt to make them change their ways!
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The value story
April 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $11.99. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 31 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Grimm's Hollow (free, scores 93) and FINAL FANTASY VI ($10.79, scores 87) both come in lower.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,859 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 2,857 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
It came out 4 years ago and 5.0K were still playing it at the last check.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
80% start to 17% 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
4,994 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Buying this game during a discount was a Last Surprise. I genuinely didn't expect that my Life Will Change after playing it. Now I can't stop thinking about the characters, the music, and everything that happened during my time with the Phantom Thieves. So Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There and give this game a chance.
I liked the game overall, but the combat didn't feel much like in Persona 3 reload still there is still so much more content than that game. Also, the story was amazing. The new game Mechanics is fun with a lot of room to complete all the social links, unlike Persona 3. Music was distracting me while fighting (I mean it's soo good, I just sit there and listen to the music while in a fight) 10h tutorial is crazy tho...
persona 5 and the persona series as a whole is one of the greatest works of gaming I've ever even seen. the characters are always great or written so good I cant help but be taken back. the music is genuinely part of the greatest soundtracks for anything I've ever heard. Top 5 game of all time.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Persona 5 Royal scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1687950/persona-5-royalThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 23.
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