The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
BANGER · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 40.4h
- Value
- $0.49/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 32 MB VRAM, 3D accelerator compatible w/ DirectX 9.0c, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Hailed as one of the largest, longest and most meticulously detailed turn-based JRPG series of all time, this first chapter in the ongoing Trails saga sets the stage for what's quickly become Ys developer Nihon Falcom's most popular and best-selling franchise in their entire 30+ year history.
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
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was December 2014. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 69 in the 12 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grimm's Hollow (free, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Ruined King: A League of Legends Story™ ($29.99, scores 73).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $43.06. It costs $19.99.
The press gave it 85; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 524 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 414 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
46% 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
69 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
I somehow never experienced the magic of TITS, despite TITS now being 22 years old. Shame on me. With each passing year, the fanbase for TITS gets bigger and bigger. Nowadays, TITS is massive, and all the better for it! I've barely played with TITS so far, and can already tell you that TITS is amazing. I'm sure that any guy would agree -- after all, who doesn't love coming home after a long day of work, and...
Trails 1 may be the simplest and fastest(?) game in the series, but it is still one of the greatest game I have played due to the amazing story, gameplay, and great humor that doesn't even go down in quality or feel dated, I wholeheartedly believe that this game is one of the best ever made and is a must play for all RPG fans.
This game is PEAK. Still holds up even in 2026 (ty turbo mode). The ending of this game had me at the edge of my seat, and I can't wait to play the next one.
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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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky scores 91/100 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/251150/the-legend-of-heroes-trails-in-the-skyThe 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 16, price as of Sep 24.
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