FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE
Worth it · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 40.6h
- Value
- $0.37/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 76% over the last 30 days against 89% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD equivalent w/ 2GB VRAM, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE - This revered classic returns, now fully remastered for the first time for PC, featuring all new and enhanced gameplay.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $14.99, set in April 2026. 46 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today's $14.99 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 71 at list, 79 today.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FINAL FANTASY VI ($10.79, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats FINAL FANTASY VIII ($4.79, scores 67).
Players rate it 89 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 76 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 17 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 480 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 40.6 hours; clearing it takes 105, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
85% start to 3% 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
298 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
How do they get away with putting this mess on the steam store? Runtime Error, Runtime Error, Runtime Error, Runtime Error...
The biggest piece of DOG SH#T. This game shouldn't cost 60 bucks when it isn't even compatible with modern graphic cards. The "fatal error" that occurs randomly is embarrasing and shouldn't be happening with a gem of game like FFXII. Emulate it instead of buying. I would've returned my money if I haven't bought it a year ago. F##K SE.
uno de mis jegos favoritos, tuve que realizar unas adecuaciones para que corriera ya que mi pc es una laptops con pocos recursos pero me alegro de que halla funcionado bien, la version que yi juge era la original de ps2 pero estoy muy emocinado por redescubirlo con esta version la zodiac age
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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FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE scores 79/100 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/595520/final-fantasy-xii-the-zodiac-ageThe 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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