Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure

Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure

Fair · RPG · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
9.8h 14.4h to 100%
Value
$2.04/hr
Reviews
94% of 209 positive
It needs 27% off ($14.65) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $14.65 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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% of 209 reviews, scored as 89%
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Value$2.04/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 182 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

About the game

Dive back into your NIS roots and experience a game that laid the foundation for the beloved Disgaea series with Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure. Sharper graphics and updated image optimization bring this classic title into the present!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Radeon HD 5450, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 25 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars ($49.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats 再刷一把 PlayAgain ($8.99, scores 15).

More about Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 9.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

46% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players online
4 when we last checked, on Oct 2, 20:56 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

My childhood, fantastic game, sweet, funny and emotional. Gameplay is great and if you need a feel good game, this is it.
MinaRecommendedafter 7.1hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Nice and short Not that hard either Cool monster taming game, the combat is simple but it works Only real negative I have with this game is the dungeons; those are kinda lame Balancing is kinda weird too, like, you get the best puppet in the game right at the beginning, like, sure, alright But it's fine, and it's not long enough for any of that to be a problem Will be checking out the sequels
morphewoRecommendedafter 14hJul 2026Read on Steam
Childhood favorite game. I am so grateful they decided to release the English version of Marl's Kingdom trilogy.
SrenobanyuRecommendedafter 15hJan 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1866430/rhapsody-a-musical-adventure
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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 27, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperNippon Ichi Software, Inc.
PublisherNIS America, Inc.
GenreRPG
Released2022
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements22