Tales of Berseria™
Worth it · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $49.99.
- Length
- 44.3h
- Value
- $1.13/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 9800 GTX or AMD Radeon HD 4850, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
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 October 2022. 57 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 2 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 ($6.39, scores 47) and Eastward ($24.99, scores 61) both come in lower.
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 says about 4 percent of players ever finish it. On a 44.3-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 4 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2021 to September 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 44.3 hours. Doing everything runs 153, 3.5 times as long.
The drop-off
67% start to 4% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 44.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
74 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
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...
A veeeryyyy long game but it's fun. The thing I figure out kinda late is that there's autobattles Also I have zero ideas even today how the fight works in the game
I do this with a heavy heart, but I don't think I can recommend this. Don't get me wrong, I like the characters, the music, and the general idea of the story, but I think the gameplay overstays its welcome. Had to put it down cause I was no longer having fun and could not bring myself to pick it back up.
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 Berseria™ scores 76/100 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/429660/tales-of-berseriaThe 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 14, price as of Sep 24.
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