Persona 3 Reload
BANGER · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $59.99.
- Length
- 64.9h
- Value
- $0.92/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 2 GB; AMD Radeon HD 7850, 2 GB, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Dive into the Dark Hour and awaken the depths of your heart. Persona 3 Reload is a captivating reimagining of the genre-defining RPG, reborn for the modern era with cutting-edge graphics and gameplay.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $20.99. 22 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 55 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
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 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga ($19.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats 再刷一把 PlayAgain ($8.99, scores 15).
The math says it holds its tier up to $63.10, and you are being asked for $59.99.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,726 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 1,434 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
88% start to 8% 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
1,683 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
History development is kinda snail-paced, but pretty fun. Soundtrack has only BANGER songs!! (disturbing the peaceeee, look into my eyeees...)
lifechanging game aside from the weird bug that the ending credits were all blurry
So heads up, P3R is EXTREMELY BORING for the first FORTY HOURS of the game! I swear it gets better after that, but you have to hang in there! Yes, the characters are all flat one-dimensional anime tropes, especially compared to P4 and P5. And yes, the only actual dungeon in the game is Tartarus and there's no fun mechanics like in P5. And don't buy the DLC, it's just a cash grab.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Persona 3 Reload scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2161700/persona-3-reloadThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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