Metaphor: ReFantazio
Worth it · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $69.99.
- Length
- 65.4h
- Value
- $1.07/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 4GB or AMD Radeon R7 360, 4GB or Intel Arc A310, 4GB, 93 GB of storage. Windows only.
After his assassination, the will of the late king decrees the next monarch to be elected by the people. Forge bonds and win over a kingdom divided in this award-winning fantasy RPG with turn-based and action combat, party customization with powerful Archetypes, and hours of exploration.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $27.99, set in June 2026. 18 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 45 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ($39.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth ($69.99, scores 67).
10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 667 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
89% start to 4% 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
1,753 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
LOVE this game, one of my favorite Atlus titles However... 80 GIGS IS INSANITY ON PC! NOT ONLY IS THE CONSOLE VERSION SIGNIFICANTLY SMALLER! There is no way it should be this unoptimized. Also they have a dumb DRM feature that makes offline play stupidly annoying. WHICH SHOULDN'T BE A PROBLEM FOR A SINGLE PLAYER GAME! I love this game to death but the DRM and storage cost is insane!
This is a nice game if you like Persona series but ♥♥♥ why did they make the final battle so fkn hard? Literally had to switch to "storyteller" difficulty even tho i killed all the dragons + minibosses and had everyone lvl 78 with best gear. bro just gains 1000 turns and eats 2 from mine. How do you fight that?
Note, I beat the game on hard. I think anything positive I have to say about the gameplay applies to the appreciated high amount of difficulty. This might just be the worst written game ATLUS has ever made. This is coming from someone who thinks Persona 5 is an extremely poorly written product, and also criticizes Persona 3 harshly even though I mostly like it. The game is severely bloated, with almost zero depth to...
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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Metaphor: ReFantazio scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2679460/metaphor-refantazioThe 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 15, price as of Sep 23.
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