Disgaea PC

Disgaea PC

Worth it · RPG · 2016

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $19.99.

Length
45.9h 170h to 100%
Value
$0.44/hr
Reviews
87% of 4,830 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
5% of players unlock the ending achievement on a 45.9-hour game.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 15 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

Raising the score
Value$0.44/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement5% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds7 of 562 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

The hotheaded Laharl seeks to be the next big Overlord in the Netherworld...and will destroy anyone that gets in his way! With his devious vassal Etna and the angel trainee Flonne as his unlikely allies, he must battle his way to supremacy and retake the throne in this over-the-top RPG adventure!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 9500 GT, ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5450 (OpenGL 3.0), 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 72 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.

Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tactical Breach Wizards ($19.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Lost Eidolons ($34.99, scores 22).

More about Disgaea PC

74 from critics against 87 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 45.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 7 of the 562 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 690 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.

45.9 hours to finish it, 170 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.7 times the campaign.

Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.

The drop-off

38% start to 5% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

What players say

It's a really good port of a great game, it's just... the Disgaea 1 Complete edition is a thing, so if you happen to own a Switch or PS4/5 you'd be better off getting that one instead since it comes with updated graphics and some seriously useful QoL features. Would be nice if they could offer it as a DLC for the PC version...
NineflamesRecommendedafter 17hSep 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Well-ported Turn-Based SRPG originally released in 2003. Runs smoothly even on a potato PC. Fun nostalgia trip.
LakanRecommendedafter 28hSep 2026Read on Steam
GG, Great Game. Classic, one of the the best JRPG in my life. *Disclaimer : I played this game other than Steam platform before, so the play time is not accurate. I love this game even before. Thank you.
TeleteRecommendedafter 31hSep 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Disgaea PC scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 23, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/405900/disgaea-pc
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Reviews 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 Oct 14, price as of Oct 22. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+13
Critics74
Players87
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 4,830 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperNippon Ichi Software, Inc.
PublisherNIS America, Inc.
GenreRPG
Released2016
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements30