Agarest: Generations of War Zero

Agarest: Generations of War Zero

Skip · RPG · 2014

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 38, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
67.5h 210.9h to 100%
Value
$0.30/hr
Reviews
74% of 390 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.30/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews74% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 69 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

From the void, the gods of darkness and light created Agarest, a most perfect and divine world. As the generations passed, paradise sadly fell to the ravages of time. War darkened the skies and Agarest soon became a torturous hell as the gods divided and immense armies clashed, desecrating the once beautiful land…
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with 64Mb RAM and support for v3 shaders, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

January 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. Across all 41 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 65 percent, about 7 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 34 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga ($6.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats 再刷一把 PlayAgain ($8.99, scores 15).

More about Agarest: Generations of War Zero

The main story runs 67.5 hours. Doing everything runs 211, 3.1 times as long.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

The drop-off

46% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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
1 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 01:53 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

The bosses are insanely hard for playing on normal difficulty and the amount of grinding needed to beat some of them is stupid.
dirty sanchezNot recommendedafter 40hOct 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I wanted to like this but everything is so unbearably slow that I can't enjoy any aspect of it.
AzethNot recommendedafter 2.6hJul 2025Read on Steam
Agarest: Generations of War Zero is a dense and methodical tactical role-playing game developed by Idea Factory and published on PC by Ghostlight LTD, serving as a narrative and mechanical prequel to the original Agarest: Generations of War. Built firmly in the tradition of old-school strategy JRPGs, the game doubles down on long-form storytelling, layered combat systems, and relationship-driven progression. Rather...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 15hJan 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Agarest: Generations of War Zero scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/260130/agarest-generations-of-war-zero
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 10. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

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Details

DeveloperIdea Factory
PublisherGhostlight LTD
GenreRPG
Released2014
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements43