Tales of Zestiria
Fair · RPG · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $49.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 41.9h
- Value
- $1.19/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon HD 4830 or equivalent, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
In a world torn by war and political skirmishes, accept the burden of the Shepherd and fight human darkness to protect your world from Malevolence and reunite humans and Seraphim.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
October 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. It has been discounted 70 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen ($29.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas ($14.99, scores 49).
Steam's global achievement data says about 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 41.9-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 2 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 508 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (time-limited); the score docks it lightly for that.
The main story runs 41.9 hours. Doing everything runs 136, 3.2 times as long.
The drop-off
66% start to 1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 41.9-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
29 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
On one hand we have: A technical mess, a more miss than hit gameplay, a story so awful you remember it for being awful, environnements poorly recycled all the time, barely any storytelling, a washed out antagonist... On the other: Absolutely incredible musics that I still remember 11 years later, some potentially interesting lore, Zaveid <3 and a pretty good art direction that is, sadly, a bit too shy. With bad...
Tried to play it despite the bad reviews. Failed to enjoy it. Watched the story summary. Played Berseria instead.
I'm a long-time Tales fan, so I'm honestly not saying any of this lightly. I've loved so many games in this franchise dearly, which is exactly why Zestiria is such a huge failure to me. I tried. I really, really tried to give this game a chance. I played for many hours and got pretty deep into it because I kept thinking maybe something would click eventually. But I just couldn't do it anymore. The soundtrack is...
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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Tales of Zestiria scores 50/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/351970/tales-of-zestiriaThe 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 16, price as of Sep 24.
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