Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land
Skip · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 13, under the fair line, at $69.99.
- Length
- 30h 60.7h to 100%
- Value
- $2.33/hr
- Reviews
- 64% of 3,306 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
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About the game
"Atelier Yumia" is a story about “memory”. Explore the field to gather materials and synthesis items. The items you create can be key to advancing the story and can also be used in battles and exploration. Additionally, you can create your own base with “Building" in the field.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
13 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Way of the Samurai 4 ($24.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty ($39.99, scores 0).
More about Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land
Steam's global achievement data puts 30 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 11 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to October 2026. In its first 30 days on sale, 1 of 149 sampled reviews came from a refunder. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 299 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 30 hours. Doing everything runs 61, 2.0 times as long.
The drop-off
91% start to 30% 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
What players say
Overall, I think the game has a good story with interesting game mechanics. However, the new gameplay mechanics lack depth, so using certain features sometimes feels pointless. For example, the battle mechanics-like dodging & character switching, and comboing when a monster is broken-are really fun. However, the monsters are defeated so easily that I don't even need to use those mechanics. Moreover, in the mid-game...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Genshin Yumia tbh Alchemy takes a minor role in the gameplay but a huge role in the story. Good game
As much as I hate to say this, if you're looking for an Atelier game and haven't already played them, just play Ryza. If you have played them and are looking for more, then Yumia is fine, but I don't think it stands up to other Atelier games. Aside from the technical issues, there isn't any single thing that makes me say it's not worth it. Just a dozen tiny factors that all add up to be just a little too...
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Cite this score
Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land scores 13/100 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/3123410/atelier-yumia-the-alchemist-of-memories-the-envisioned-landReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.