FINAL FANTASY IV: THE AFTER YEARS
Skip · RPG · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 11, under the fair line, at $15.99.
- Length
- 35.2h 108.7h to 100%
- Value
- $0.45/hr
- Reviews
- 62% of 689 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Take part in the epic sequel that unfolds nearly two decades after the events of FINAL FANTASY IV. Now enhanced for Windows PC.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 952 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
50 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. On the same math FINAL FANTASY V ($17.99, scores 79) and DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake ($59.99, scores 42) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about FINAL FANTASY IV: THE AFTER YEARS
This site sampled 349 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
35.2 hours to finish it, 109 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
69% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 11 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 08:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Everything about this game is terrible. The reused dungeons, the GRINDING, and the bland new characters just made this a terrible experience I do NOT recommend. final boss is cool tho
1 more review, not recommended
What is good comes almost entirely from the base game. Mechanically, this offers little, and the lengthy sections where you only have a single party member undercut the main advantages of the combat mechanics. Narratively, this is horribly paced, and repeats plot points from the original in a cheap and uninteresting way. In many respects, the game tips its hand with one of its first scenes. You watch as a character...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
FINAL FANTASY IV: THE AFTER YEARS scores 11/100 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/346830/final-fantasy-iv-the-after-yearsReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.