Tales of Symphonia
Worth it · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 46.3h
- Value
- $0.43/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon HD 4830, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
FIRST TIME ON STEAM – Based on the PlayStation®3 port of the original GameCube game, this RPG classic is finally available for PC.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in December 2016. 71 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. 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.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen ($29.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats FINAL FANTASY® XIII ($6.39, scores 47).
Of the 558 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 614 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 46.3 hours; clearing it takes 190, which is 4.1 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
72% start to 1% 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
51 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
Got me Hooked on these DAM "Tales of" games. Gamecube Never Dies. Play it, its awesome.
I played this game THROUGH with as much as I could find on a single blind playthrough. I hit the casino big time, did optional dungeons and optional bosses. Again, as much as I could find because there was surely much to discover still but I didn't have the energy to go through both worlds after every story beat as I should have done. There are some branching story paths too but I stuck to what felt best for me. I...
Symphonia was my first Tales when it came out on GameCube, and it left such an impression on me that to this day, Tales Of is my favorite series of all time. I think it was the first Tales that really formed what it became. A classic that I think every RPG fan should play. If you are a completionist like me, get ready to spend so much time on this game that you'll have every little detail memorized. :-) My only...
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 Symphonia scores 71/100 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/372360/tales-of-symphoniaThe 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 17, price as of Sep 24.
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