Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter

BANGER · RPG · 2025

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 3 of 4 sales

A BANGER at $29.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Sep 2025.

Cost per hourS
$0.74/hr
ReviewsS
95% of 5,454
Critics
89 players 6 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% RPG

Score at full price

Worth it$59.99

Score today

−50%SALE BANGERBANGER
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.

Time and effort

Main story
40.6h
To 100%
74.7h 1.8x the story
Achievements
43

Price and sales

Sales
6 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$29.99 June 2026
Sale every
55d last November 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $29.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
354 now
Recent reviews
94% 30 days
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

97% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $29.99. That was June 2026. 6 discounts in the 14 months on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Outcore: Desktop Adventure (free, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Sora no Kiseki the 1st ($59.99, scores 62).

$45.22 is where it would stop being a BANGER.

More about Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter

This site sampled 542 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,125 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 309 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 3 of its last 4 seasonal sales.

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$0.74/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set. That is today's sale price. Normally $1.48/hr
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds7 of 542 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

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter reimagines the first chapter of a beloved series, infusing it with enhanced visuals and refined gameplay. Join Estelle and Joshua, partners bound by fate, as they unravel dark conspiracies threatening the peace of the Liberl Kingdom.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050, 33 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3375780/trails-in-the-sky-1st-chapter
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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 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+6
Critics89
Players95
Metacritic critics · 5,454 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperNihon Falcom
PublisherGungHo Online Entertainment America, Inc.
GenreRPG
Released2025
Achievements43