Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
Worth it · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $17.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Feb 2024.
- Length
- 45.1h
- Value
- $0.40/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 70% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 55% ($26.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 70% ($17.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti, 1 GB or AMD Radeon HD 7750, 1 GB, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Become a mighty demigod and battle through a decimated Tokyo in a war between angels and demons. Make new allies along your journey, engage in intense, turn-based combat, recruit hundreds of demons and forge your own path to dictate the fate of all existence.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $17.99. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 55 percent off as a rule. There have been 18 in the 3 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $17.99 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 73. The current cut is what makes it a 82.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Monster Sanctuary ($19.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin ($39.99, scores 58).
5 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 409 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 45.1 hours; clearing it takes 116, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
92% start to 2% 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
900 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 09:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
greatest modern turn based game. extremely well thought out combat system. challenge is frustrating and rewarding. really amazing game
Sadly, this one just didn't stick with me. From the MC being a zero-personality twink to the world itself, I found very little here that kept me invested. I actually enjoyed playing SMT III, so I came into Vengeance expecting one of the strongest turn-based RPGs out there. Instead, I ended up feeling pretty bored. The biggest problem for me is the world. It's a huge, empty open world filled with collectibles and...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance scores 82/100 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/1875830/shin-megami-tensei-v-vengeanceReviews 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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