Epic Battle Fantasy 5
BANGER · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.99.
- Length
- 27.7h
- Value
- $0.90/hr
- Reviews
- 99% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Doesn't matter much, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
A turn-based RPG adventure, full of video game references, juvenile dialogue, and anime fanservice... and also strategic combat, monster catching, and tons of treasure hunting! Updated with tons of new content!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in September 2024. 33 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 45 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Monster Sanctuary ($4.99, scores 85) and Renowned Explorers: International Society ($19.99, scores 76).
The math says it holds its tier up to $42.97, and you are being asked for $24.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts 29 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 357 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 141 reviews written there were positive, against 99 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 27.7 hours; clearing it takes 74, which is 2.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
88% start to 29% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
69 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
W game broo, wish i would 100% it, but it def will take me a long time and also my sanity..
I love this game! I'm not usually a fan of turn-based combat in RPGs, but this game does it in a way that manages to keep you engaged the whole time. But I think the best aspect of EBF5 is, by far, the amount of charm and personality everything has, from the art, to the character dialogue.
In spite of enjoying 4 the most, this just ended up feeling like a leap backwards. Takes itself to seriously it's lost it's own purpose. Lost the 2x speed to make it even the slightest bit more tolerable. Horrid capture gimmick that is nothing but a time sync and is more or less required (this or some other timewasting addition anyway) to get the "true" ending. Just cause you have the characters repeatedly say what...
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Epic Battle Fantasy 5 scores 96/100 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/432350/epic-battle-fantasy-5The 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 23, price as of Sep 24.
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