FRONT MISSION 1st: Remake
Fair · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $3.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jun 2023. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 24.8h 56.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.14/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 784 positive
Full price
Today
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Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
FRONT MISSION 1st: Remake is an immersive, tactical turn-based RPG, placing you in command of the awe-inspiring Wanzers – powerful military machines.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 630 / Radeon HD 6570, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.49. That was June 2026. 37 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BATTLETECH ($39.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters ($44.99, scores 41).
More about FRONT MISSION 1st: Remake
Of the 465 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 24.8 hours; clearing it takes 57, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
87% start to 3% 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
- Players online
- 98 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 13:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It is pretty fun and story is good enough. It is cheap during sale. New parts show up too quickly that it is tedious replacing equipment on each character. It is hard in the beginning but you become OP very fast. Sakata can't hit anything.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
As a lover of the FM3 for the PS1, I finally wanted to try the first one and I can say the remake is pretty good and fun. I feel it could have a bit more QOL improvements, specially in the shop menu (making it easier to buy sets, compare weapons, etc), but it's not a big problem. Occasionally I get a bug where the game "freezes" when trying to save (happened at least twice on the steam deck) and I had to restart the...
This is a total missed opportunity, and absolutely not worth it for $45 CAD. The only thing updated in this "Remake" is the graphics and music, that's it. Not a single quality of life up grade. Skills still upgrade randomly, and have stupid names. Weapons appear in two different orders depending on whether you select the Left or Right menu. The Shop and Wanzer Setup are still seperate menus, and the Shop is still...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
FRONT MISSION 1st: Remake scores 53/100 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/2399730/front-mission-1st-remakeReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.