FINAL FANTASY XVI
Skip · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$49.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$24.9950% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.31/hr
- Reviews▼
- 78% of 34,370
- Genre rank
- Top 20% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $24.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 38.3h
- To 100%
- 82.5h 2.2x the story
- Finish
- 14% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 69
Price and sales
- Sales
- 14 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $19.99 April 2026
- Sale every
- 46d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 367 now
- Recent reviews
- 78% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 71% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
87% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
14 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 20 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE ($39.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN ($39.99, scores 40).
More about FINAL FANTASY XVI
Steam's global achievement data puts about 14 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 38.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 892 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 38.3 hours; clearing it takes 83, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Nov 9 and Nov 22, at about $19.99 (60% off). Predictions like this were right 73% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks. Its own discounts have started about 61 days apart.
Last discount ended 29 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Loved the story, Loved the Eikon battles, Hated the side quests, Overall, a great game.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Solid game. I seen some random hate for it over the year or so from this game coming out. If you love FF games in general you will enjoy this game. If you like Devil May Cry for its combat alone you will enjoy this game.
This is the very first Final Fantasy game I am walking away from, and I write this with a genuinely heavy heart. I've been playing the Final Fantasy franchise for a very long time. The last FF game I truly loved, enjoyed, and replayed was Final Fantasy XII. I struggled with XIII and XV, but I always hoped the next entry would bring back that feeling that made me fall in love with the series. So when I finally got...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
An epic dark fantasy where fates are decided by mighty Eikons and the Dominants who wield them. This is the tale of Clive Rosfield, a tragic warrior who swears revenge on the Dark Eikon Ifrit, a mysterious entity that leaves naught but calamity in its wake.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 5700 / Intel Arc A580 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070, 170 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
FINAL FANTASY XVI scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2515020/final-fantasy-xviReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.