Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim
Fair · RPG · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.1h
- Value
- $1.65/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 32 MB VRAM, 3D accelerator compatible w/ DirectX 9.0c, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Adventurer Adol Christin has washed ashore in yet another mysterious, isolated new land, inhabited by a people who sport long ears and bushy tails...and are none too fond of humans. Experience the very first 3D Ys game as never before, with a whole new gameplay mode unique to this release!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was December 2016. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 64 in the 11 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen ($29.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Nioh: Complete Edition ($49.99, scores 52).
The press gave it 76; the people who bought it give it 90 percent. A 14-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 12.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 402 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 100 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
58% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 12.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 13:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
4th game in the Ys series I'm playing and so far this is my least favorite game. Mainly due to the combat not being as fluid as the other games. I miss having skills i could spam like in Ys origin and oath in felghana. The bosses are a bit underwhelming (especially the last boss) . The story is okay, not the best in the series but is interesting enough. I would still recommended despite its flaws, it's a enjoyable...
Here I am after finishing Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim. I decided to play the series in the order of Ys I & II, then The Oath in Felghana, and now Ys VI, even though Felghana is a remake released later. I wanted to experience the evolution of the first act (YS I & II & III) . What I enjoyed the most in this entry was the lore. We finally learn more about where Adol comes from, his homeland, and his past, which adds...
I really wanted to like this game, but I couldn't. It is just inferior to The Oath in Felghana in every way. The plot is almost nonexistent, the characters are flat, and the two main Rehda girls on the cover art (Olha and Isha) have essentially no personality. Also, the antagonist, if you can even call him that, is only seen at the very end of the game. The gameplay is serviceable, but I still don't like that spells...
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Cite this score
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/312540/ys-vi-the-ark-of-napishtimReviews 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 1.
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