FINAL FANTASY® XIII-2
Skip · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $7.99.
- Length
- 28h
- Value
- $0.29/hr
- Reviews
- 59% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1.5 GB of memory, NVIDIA Geforce 8 Series/ ATI Radeon HD 4000 series VRAM 256MB or later, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.99, set in December 2023. 59 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today's $7.99 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 95 percent. FINAL FANTASY® XIII ($6.39, scores 47) outscores it, and so does FINAL FANTASY VI ($10.79, scores 87). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Steam's global achievement data says about 6 percent of players ever finish it. On a 28-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 23 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 301 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 2 of the 23 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 26 percent of the 792 reviews written there were positive, against 59 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 28 hours; clearing it takes 72, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
66% start to 6% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 28-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
54 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 game is amazing for it's time. There is time travel and a story that really pulls you in, if you can look past the graphics, the music and emotional pull makes it so worth it! It's interesting, it has you go through time to fix things, fight to save the world. Like any emotional FF game, it gets a bit dramatic and sad here and there, but it wouldn't be Final Fantasy without it! Oh! and the battle system is...
I can't believe the game ended like that-WTF. Now I really need to play the next one in the trilogy. That said, what a game!
It worked without any issues for me after applying the two recommended fixes. I played the first game many years ago and hoped this one would be an improvement in most ways. To be honest, it's just not. In some ways, it's actually worse. The main characters are so bland. The combat is mostly the same, with just a few minor adjustments compared to the first game, but honestly, it's probably the only thing I actually...
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FINAL FANTASY® XIII-2 scores 5/100 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/292140/final-fantasy-xiii-2The 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 20, price as of Sep 24.
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