The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
BANGER · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $39.99.
- Length
- 58.7h
- Value
- $0.68/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Shader Model 5 (GeForce 400 / Radeon HD 5000 / Intel post-2012 series), 17 GB of storage. Windows only.
At Thors Military Academy, Erebonia’s best learn everything from the art of war to liberal arts. First year Rean Schwarzer learns he’s been selected to join the controversial Class VII, and they’ll need to deal with more than just class warfare--they’ll need to safeguard their country from chaos.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $19.99. That was April 2021. It has been discounted 56 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grimm's Hollow (free, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Ikenfell ($19.99, scores 74).
The math says it holds its tier up to $60.53, and you are being asked for $39.99.
Critics scored it 80. Players sit 15 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 482 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 176 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
86% start to 6% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
37 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 08:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
Cite this score
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/538680/the-legend-of-heroes-trails-of-cold-steelReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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