FINAL FANTASY IX
BANGER · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $6.29.
- Length
- 37.9h
- Value
- $0.17/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8600GTS or ATI Radeon HD4650 or higher, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
Selling over five million copies since its release in 2000, FINAL FANTASY IX proudly returns on Steam! Now you can relive the adventures of Zidane and his crew on PC !
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How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.29, set in June 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 50 in the 10 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart. Today's $6.29 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including FINAL FANTASY VIII ($4.79, scores 67) and FINAL FANTASY® XIII ($6.39, scores 47).
$46.00 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $6.29.
Critics scored it 84. Players sit 11 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 631 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 676 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
37.9 hours to finish it, 82 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
70% start to 3% 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
351 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
Probably my favorite FF at the moment, really good soundtrack.If you like funny lil Black Mages play this game its amazing. Bless up!!!!
FINAL FANTASY IX Final Fantasy IX is my favorite Final Fantasy, period. The music is pure ear candy. Every single track is masterfully composed - it's the kind of soundtrack that makes your soul sing. 🎵 The characters are absolutely iconic. Zidane, Vivi, Garnet, everyone feels distinct and memorable. They stick with you long after you finish. The story is dark, yet somehow deeply compelling and gripping. It pulls...
Final Fantasy IX was my first Final Fantasy, and I honestly couldn't have asked for a better introduction to the series (thanks to my wonderful boyfriend). I just finished the game, and I already feel that bittersweet emptiness you get when you say goodbye to a world you've grown so attached to. The story is absolutely wonderful. The characters are incredibly charming and memorable, and throughout the entire...
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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FINAL FANTASY IX scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/377840/final-fantasy-ixThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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