STAR OCEAN THE SECOND STORY R
Worth it · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jun 2023.
- Length
- 25.8h
- Value
- $0.97/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($24.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 460 / Intel Arc A380 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
In this science fantasy RPG, choose between Claude or Rena, play through their perspectives, and unlock various endings. Recruit allies and defeat foes in fast paced real-time battles.
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
The lowest price on record is $24.99, set in June 2025. It has been discounted 18 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today's $24.99 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record. The math puts its BANGER price at $22.22. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
This sale is doing real work. 71 at list, 83 today.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games closest to it, Evoland 2 ($4.99, scores 75) and Garden Story ($19.99, scores 64) both come in lower.
This site sampled 536 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 195 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 25.8 hours; clearing it takes 62, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
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
88 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 04:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
After years I am finally able to beat all the bosses in the arena. On the original playstation title you'd get to fight 73 and the game would just black screen every time. Didn't matter what game you used or what playstation you used. You could not 100% this game ever. Now you can.
What an excellent RPG - amazing scenery, great characters and story, feels super fresh and unique. I loved every minute of this game and may even do a second playthrough (for reasons known to those who have played through once) 10/10, masterpiece!
Played countless hours on the original ps1 version. The remake is amazing. Plan on playing this game for hundreds of hours.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
STAR OCEAN THE SECOND STORY R scores 83/100 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/2238900/star-ocean-the-second-story-rReviews 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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