Tales of Berseria™

Tales of Berseria™

Worth it · RPG · 2017

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The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 1 of 8 sales

Worth it at $49.99.

Cost per hourA
$1.13/hr
ReviewsS
91% of 18,945
Critics
80 players 11 higher
Genre rank
Top 4% RPG

Holding it back: DRM

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
4% of players unlock the ending achievement on a 44.4-hour game.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
44.4h
To 100%
152.5h 3.4x the story
Finish
4% reach the ending
Achievements
51

Price and sales

Sales
57 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$4.99 October 2022
Sale every
46d last December 2024
Lowest now $46.74 at Fanaticalall-time low $3.54 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
45 now
Cheaper than
2% of its genre
Better reviewed
95% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

67% start to 4% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

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

The value story

The value story

57 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 96 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games closest to it, FINAL FANTASY® XIII ($15.99, scores 47) and Phoenotopia: Awakening ($19.99, scores 64) both come in lower.

More about Tales of Berseria™

The press gave it 80; the people who bought it give it 91 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 44.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 4 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 565 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 44.4 hours. Doing everything runs 153, 3.4 times as long.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 675 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$1.13/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement4% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
DRMDenuvo
Denuvo copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds4 of 800 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

What players say

Absolutely amazing story. I grown attached to the cast and I believe the ending wraps everything nicely. Velvet is an amazingly written protagonist and Cristina Valenzuela deserves and Oscar for her voice acting. The combat isnt the defining feature for me but if you like action based gameplay i believe its mature enough to satisfy most players. The OST isnt anything to write home about . but there are a few bangers...
ShiroRecommendedafter 57hSep 2026Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
This game is associated with Bandai Namco, a known criminal organization which steals money from unsuspecting users in return for nothing. Dev may be good, but users be warned, you're getting involved with the publisher Bandai Namco if you come here, who is well-known to rob users on their mobile games.
VoxNot recommendedafter 25h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

Players embark on a journey of self-discovery as they assume the role of Velvet, a young woman whose once kind demeanor has been replaced and overcome with a festering anger and hatred after a traumatic experience three years prior to the events within Tales of Berseria.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 9800 GTX or AMD Radeon HD 4850, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Tales of Berseria™ scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/429660/tales-of-berseria
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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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+11
Critics80
Players91
Metacritic critics · 18,945 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperBANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.
PublisherBANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
GenreRPG
Released2017
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements51