FINAL FANTASY® XIII
Skip · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 47, under the fair line, at $15.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.33/hr
- Reviews▼
- 75% of 20,067
- Genre rank
- Top 23% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 47.9h
- To 100%
- 104.8h 2.2x the story
- Finish
- 35% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 35
Price and sales
- Sales
- 59 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $6.39 December 2023
- Sale every
- 67d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 177 now
- Recent reviews
- 78% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 20% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 56% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
90% start to 35% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
59 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 23 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre. FINAL FANTASY VI ($17.99, scores 87) outscores it, and so does FINAL FANTASY XVI ($49.99, scores 49). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about FINAL FANTASY® XIII
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 18. 6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 1,502 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
Playing this after Expedition 33 made me actually really like the combat. I remember seeing the trailers for this way back and being blown away by the graphics. We never had a PS3, so I never got to play it. More than 15 years later, I finally did. The good [*] World & environments: amazing, and easily the best part of the game, along with the music. Everything is beautifully and artistically crafted. [*] Story &...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
If you want this game to stop crashing just play it in Windowed mode. I tried different methods to fix it but nothing helped except playing in Windowed mode
this was a truly terrible video game from start to end, there are some good with it like the design of the environment and the music and character design but other than those the story was ok at best and the gameplay is just pure trash, do not buy
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
FINAL FANTASY® XIII scores 47/100 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/292120/final-fantasy-xiiiReviews 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 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.