FINAL FANTASY XVI
Fair · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 38.3h
- Value
- $0.52/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
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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.
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.
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
April 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $19.99. 14 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today's $19.99 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 49 at list, 55 today.
On value it sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE ($9.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats CRISIS CORE –FINAL FANTASY VII– REUNION ($17.49, scores 53).
Steam's global achievement data says about 14 percent of players ever finish it. On a 38.3-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 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 79 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.
The drop-off
87% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
About 737 players at once, as of Sep 11.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Loved the story, Loved the Eikon battles, Hated the side quests, Overall, a great game.
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 game is a SLOG. It's a very different formula than the Final Fantasy games that came before it, and it feels more like an action game. There's very little RPG, or even.. game, for that matter. It feels like 75% of the game is a cutscene, story battles included. Unless you're a die-hard Final Fantasy lover, skip it. And even if you are, just watch the 20 HOURS of cutscenes instead because it's practically the...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
FINAL FANTASY XVI scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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