The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki

The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki

Worth it · RPG · 2022

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $49.99.

Length
56.5h
Value
$0.88/hr
Reviews
91% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.

Buy now or wait

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

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
50% ($24.99)
Last discount ended
9 days ago

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
56.5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
110.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.88
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$49.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
91%
1,731 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB or AMD Radeon RX 560 4 GB, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.

The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki is finally coming to Steam®! The sprawling Republic of Calvard is experiencing an unprecedented economic boom brought on by post-war reparations. Here is the beginning of a new "Trails (story)".
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
Value$0.89/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement12% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
For context
Length57 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach75K+ 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
Refunds0 of 415 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

November 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $24.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 17 in the 4 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

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 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Crystal Project ($13.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats WitchSpring3 Re:Fine - The Story of Eirudy - ($19.99, scores 75).

Steam's global achievement data puts about 12 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 56.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 415 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026.

The drop-off

93% start to 12% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

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

Players

42 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 02:50 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

If you have made it this far with Trails there really isn't really anything else to say at this point. It's great.
Darrell231Recommendedafter 37hApr 2025Read on Steam
One of my favourite entry in the Kiseki games. While a bit slow at time and suffering from pacing issues, the game is much more modern than before and I tremendously enjoyed it
ObsidianRecommendedafter 73hMar 2025Read on Steam
Character dynamics, darker tone, improved visuals, and the new gameplay led to Kuro being my favourite since the crossbell games.
zolaRecommendedafter 59hNov 2024Read 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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The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki scores 80/100 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/1811950/the-legend-of-heroes-kuro-no-kiseki
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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

DeveloperNihon Falcom
PublisherClouded Leopard Entertainment
GenreRPG
Released2022
Achievements53