Fairy Fencer F
Worth it · RPG · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 24.6h
- Value
- $0.41/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with 512Mb RAM and support for v3 shaders, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Long ago, the Vile God and the Goddess waged war with each other. Equally matched, they were sealed away in another world… Now a lazy young man named Fang somehow finds himself a key part of this war he’d really rather not deal with, but fate beckons in this uncommon RPG!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was December 2017. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 66 in the 11 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grimm's Hollow (free, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Fuga: Melodies of Steel ($19.99, scores 56).
Critics scored it 66. Players sit 23 points higher at 89 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data says about 17 percent of players ever finish it. On a 24.6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 194 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
24.6 hours to finish it, 57 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
80% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Fairy Fencer F is a lighthearted JRPG that leans into anime comedy, colorful character banter, and a simple-but-addictive loop of exploring dungeons, collecting power-ups, and watching your party grow stronger. It doesn't try to be a massive open-world epic; instead, it feels like a compact adventure that keeps moving, with frequent scenes and jokes between battles. If you like JRPGs that don't take themselves too...
found this game cuz the person i always used to hang out with used ethel as her vrchat avatar. i already liked her for her character design, but playing the game only made me love the character even more. she's definitely 1 of my top waifus. just wish this game was more popular, there's not enough art of her. not a fan of how the story resets every time you beat the final boss, but it's definitely unique and nothing...
I really enjoy this game. I like the story, characters, and the turn-based combat. It doesn't take that long to beat the game - ignore my long playtime. That being said, I wouldn't recommend the game. It's engine is outdated and it crashes somewhat often. Running as admin and running it in compatibility mode does help. (Thank you poster.) However, you'll still get the crash on occasion. Grinding is a feature in this...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Fairy Fencer F scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/347830/fairy-fencer-fThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 22, price as of Sep 24.
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