SWORD ART ONLINE Fractured Daydream
Skip · Shooter · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 10, under the fair line, at $59.99.
- Length
- 16.1h
- Value
- $3.73/hr
- Reviews
- 65% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 41% ($35.39)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 60% ($23.99)
- Last discount ended
- 27 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 580 / Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 / Intel Arc A 380, 45 GB of storage. Windows only.
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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
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $23.99. That was March 2026. 13 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 34 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cat Quest ($12.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Wayfinder ($2.99, scores 7).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 23 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,071 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 118 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 202 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
16.1 hours to finish it, 62 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.8 times the campaign.
The drop-off
88% start to 5% 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
19 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 05:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I like the game but the campaign just pisses me off I played this on xbox when it first released and the campaign was great then months later I get it on PC and it's complete garbage the AIS don't fight they don't do any damage either no matter if you put equipment on them or not also they would stand there doing nothing they can't even follow me or use their abilities I don't know what you guys did but you messed...
i don't care about the story but the gameplay is pretty fun and the replayability is pretty alright
This game is good, but not for everyone. This is a live service game with an entry fee and an ingame store. at the time of writing this review the game added omega lvl skills for your gear so its very active. Story is there and is kinda mid, but the meat of this game is multiplayer. There is cross-play and whenever you cant fill the full slots it fills it with bots. Nowadays there is almost always events of player...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
SWORD ART ONLINE Fractured Daydream 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/1858630/sword-art-online-fractured-daydreamReviews 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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