Ys: The Oath in Felghana
Worth it · RPG · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $10.84.
- Length
- 10.9h
- Value
- $1.38/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 32 MB VRAM, 3D accelerator compatible w/ DirectX 9.0c, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
An Action RPG driven by fast-paced combat and paired with an intricate puzzle-filled world.
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 $3.74. That was December 2013. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 70 in the 14 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $10.84, a level the record has reached 70 times.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hyper Light Drifter ($4.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen ($29.99, scores 76).
The press gave it 73; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 21-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 24 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 368 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 132 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
40% start to 24% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 13:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This was a fantastic game. And although I am not very good at video games i was surprised how many times i died on easy mode. Still the story is great and the small details like how very NPC's dialogue changes with story progression is just outstanding.
A fun blend of action RPG, metroidvania and I dare to say even a little bit of the rogue-like genre if you don't decide to be patient and just yolo everything until the next checkpoint. I expected the bosses to be harder, based on all the fuss about them - they were rather alright, imagine metroid bosses but made into HP sponges. The story and the characters were okay, the animation really well made, just like the...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Ys: The Oath in Felghana scores 79/100 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/207320/ys-the-oath-in-felghanaReviews 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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