The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon

The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon

Worth it · RPG · 2026

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17

Worth it at $59.99, a BANGER if it drops to $45.91.

Cost per hourA
$1.12/hr
ReviewsS
93% of 782
Genre rank
Top 2% RPG
It needs 23% off ($45.91) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $45.91 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
53.7h
To 100%
109.3h 2.0x the story
Finish
62% reach the ending
Achievements
53

Price and sales

Sales
None on record
Steam low
$59.99 January 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $44.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
36 now
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
96% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

92% start to 62% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
36 when we last checked, on Oct 16, 06:53 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

The value story

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $59.99. That was January 2026. In 9 months of price history it has never once been discounted.

Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter ($29.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Sora no Kiseki the 1st ($59.99, scores 62).

More about The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon

Steam's global achievement data puts 62 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Of the 341 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to August 2026.

53.7 hours to finish it, 109 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

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

Raising the score
Cost per hour$1.12/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 91% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement62% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 341 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

The future of an entire continent is at stake in this milestone entry in the Trails series! Explore the vast Calvard Republic with three different protagonists, nurture connections, and master powerful skills in both real-time and turn-based battles as you uncover the secrets at the core of Zemuria!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050, 26 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3316940/the-legend-of-heroes-trails-beyond-the-horizon
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Reviews 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 Nov 2, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperNihon Falcom
PublisherNIS America, Inc.
GenreRPG
Released2026
Achievements53