TEKKEN 8
Skip · Action · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 4.2h
- Value
- $9.52/hr
- Reviews
- 57% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 78% over the last 30 days against 57% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti/AMD Radeon R9 380X, 100 GB of storage. Windows only.
TEKKEN 8 is the latest addition to the TEKKEN series, the pinnacle of 3D fighting games. Join the fight with over 32 characters and bear witness to the next installment in this epic saga. Get ready for the biggest and best TEKKEN game ever made!
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $23.99. That was December 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 18 in the 3 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Lethal League ($13.99, scores 75) and Mortal Kombat 11 ($49.99, scores 40) both outscore it.
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 91 against 57 percent.
Players rate it 57 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 78 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 1,174 reviews written there were positive, against 57 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (boost, cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
4.2 hours to finish it, 17 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
88% start to 4% 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
4,409 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
Maybe a good game if you want to continue the story of Jin and Kazuya or like the graphics. But gameplay wise does not feel anything like a Tekken game. I'd rather play Tekken 3.
Dont waste your money on this crap, super unbalanced, commands doenst register during combat, have a battle pass that YOU NEED TO PAY ADDITIONAL WITH THE GAME and doing basic online matches with friends is ALWAYS a problem like extreme lag out of nowhere, random disconects or just cant join in general. Overall do not buy it, is not worth the time and the money.
Bro, no one ever told me Tekken was the ♥♥♥ party girl of the fighting game scene. It has everything Fashion Drama Club Music Ninjas asking for jobs during a fight My favorite character is just trying to promote her woman-owned ethically sourced coffee business Some dude threw his dad into lava. Also its the most fun Ive had playing a fighting game in a long time. It all connects and flows so smoothly especially...
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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TEKKEN 8 scores 3/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1778820/tekken-8The 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 15, price as of Sep 23.
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