NieR:Automata™
Fair · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$39.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$15.9960% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.88/hr
- Reviews▼
- 87% of 154,601
- Critics
- 84 players 3 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 11% RPG
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Monetization
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $15.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 21.3h
- To 100%
- 61.2h 2.9x the story
- Achievements
- 47
Price and sales
- Sales
- 40 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $13.99 August 2025
- Sale every
- 72d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 702 now
- Recent reviews
- 91% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 91% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
81% start to 6% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
40 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition ($59.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats FINAL FANTASY XVI ($49.99, scores 49).
More about NieR:Automata™
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 6,686 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
Finishing takes 21.3 hours; clearing it takes 61, which is 2.9 times the campaign.
The rating rests on 154,601 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
What players say
What I expected: Metal Gear Rising & fan service What I got: 20€ Soundtrack with a free game & utter depression
2 more reviews
ending e and nier automata as a whole is seriously so life changing to me. although it has its flaws, it has some of the highest highs in any game ever. if you suffer from some sort of nihilistic existential dread (or not) i cant recommend this game enough p.s at the very end make sure to pay it forward,,
multiple emotional collapses and blaming myself for not understanding what's exactly happening until I hear this from Pod 42 :"Perhaps now we understand that not everything has to have an answer. such a heavy journey for me but I feel content playing it in the end.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 VRAM 2GB or AMD Radeon R9 270X VRAM 2GB, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
NieR:Automata™ scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/524220/nier-automataReviews 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 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.