FINAL FANTASY® XIII
Skip · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $6.39.
- Length
- 47.9h
- Value
- $0.13/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 65% over the last 30 days against 75% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA Geforce 8 Series/ ATI Radeon HD 2000 series VRAM 256MB or later, 60 GB of storage. Windows only.
Final Fantasy XIII is a fantasy RPG in which a band of brave humans struggle against fate in the utopian sky city of Cocoon and the primeval world of Pulse. Follow stylish heroine Lightning's fast paced battles and high adventure in a mysterious new world.
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $6.39. That was December 2023. 59 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today's $6.39 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. FINAL FANTASY VI ($10.79, scores 87) and FINAL FANTASY XVI ($19.99, scores 55) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data puts 35 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Players rate it 75 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 65 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 5 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 1,495 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 47.9 hours. Doing everything runs 105, 2.2 times as long.
The drop-off
90% start to 35% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
286 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
This is a reluctant thumbs up, like saying a game is just barely a 6 / 10, it just about overcomes its flaws, though it has plenty of them. First its a dice-roll if the game'll even work. I experienced few crashes on my playthrough (albeit only after playing about with graphics and 3d settings first) though others I know who have played on even stronger rigs than mine have scarcely been able to see the end of the...
very challenging and ch. 11 is when it expands to open world but there's too much to explore on ch. 11. Fav childhood game
A FALSE RPG I love Final Fantasy, but this is pure crap. The game is just walking down a corridor (which wasn't an issue in FFX), fighting the same enemies, and repeating the same attacks over and over. You don't actually level up; you just receive points to spend on a rigid, scripted stat tree with zero freedom to create your own builds. Equipment alters stats as well, but it makes virtually no difference in...
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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FINAL FANTASY® XIII scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/292120/final-fantasy-xiiiThe 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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