Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series

Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series

Fair · Action · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $39.99. A BANGER at $9.40, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2022 (lowest $9.99, Dec 2023).

Length
9.1h
Value
$4.39/hr
Reviews
94% positive
It needs 76% off ($9.40) to be a BANGER.
Worth it at $24.15.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
75% ($9.99)
Last discount ended
27 days ago

Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
9.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
14.2h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$4.39
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$39.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
94%
2,262 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 2GB | AMD Radeon HD 7790, 2GB, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.

KLONOA is a 3D side-scrolling action game series whose first title was released by Namco in 1997. Set in a unique universe populated by a range of original characters, the game follows the hero, Klonoa, as he sets off on a journey to save the world.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews94% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement16% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.40/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length9.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 399 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was December 2023. It has been discounted 27 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago. $9.40 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.

On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Islets ($19.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap ($19.99, scores 48).

Steam's global achievement data puts about 16 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 407 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 9.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

72% start to 16% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

Players

6 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 16:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

This is one of those games that you purchase because it was on sale (maybe it piqued your interest) and you don't play it for a couple of years. Then, when you finally do get around to playing it, you realize that you had slept on one of the greatest franchises that, sadly, no one knows about. If you see this review and you like platformers, just buy this and don't think about it. As much as I love this franchise...
WAHOO!Recommendedafter 34h7 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Amazing platformers, although the remakes are kinda a downgrade to the original games I recommend emulating the original ps1 and ps2 releases
LomboRecommendedafter 2.8hSep 2026Read on Steam
sometimes when i think of the days when i was active in this series's fandom i feel a shiver coming down my spine very good games tho, will never stop reccomending it (played it a lot more on switch tho)
waterRecommendedafter 1.9hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1730680/klonoa-phantasy-reverie-series
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Reviews 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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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMONKEYCRAFT Co. Ltd.
PublisherBandai Namco Entertainment
GenreAction
Released2022
Achievements25