Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet

Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet

Fair · Shooter · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 5 of 8 sales

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hourS
$0.77/hr
Reviews▼
79% of 19,521
Critics
61 players 18 higher
Genre rank
Top 29% Shooter

Holding it back: DRM, Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
26.1h
To 100%
130.1h 5.0x the story
Finish
30% reach the ending
Achievements
63

Price and sales

Sales
71 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$3.99 July 2024
Sale every
37d last October 2026
Lowest now $4.59 at Fanaticalall-time low $2.39 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
61 now
Cheaper than
16% of its genre
Better reviewed
51% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

72% start to 30% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 71 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 2 days ago.

Its score puts it in the top 29 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Saints Row: The Third ($9.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats OUTRIDERS ($19.99, scores 20).

More about Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet

The press gave it 61; the people who bought it give it 79 percent. An 18-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts 30 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 17 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 1,205 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.

26.1 hours to finish it, 130 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.0 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 2 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

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

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.77/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Replayability~130h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 26h main story
Engagement30% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
DRMDenuvo
Denuvo copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds17 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

There is still no better SAO game than this, fck you Bandai ruining Echoes of Aincrad Asada-san Asada-san Asada-san Asada-san Asada-san Asada-san Asada-san Asada-san Asada-san Asada-san Asada-san Asada-san Asada-san Asada-san Asada-san Asada-san Asada-san Asada-san Asada-san
YuutaRecommendedafter 20hSep 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
This game is technically the best SAO game. I've played most of them (Lost Song, Alizication Lycoris, Fractured daydream and even the mobile game Integral Factor) and I can say that it isn't the SAO game I wanted about GGO but it is the GGO game that we could get specially if you take into consideration that the game is almost 10 years old (I feel so old now). Is it a good game: YES Is it a good sao game: YES Is it...
Jizo_KagenouRecommendedafter 1.7hAug 2026Read on Steam
After beating this on ps4 and reaching max level, i waited a good while to play on pc again and this still remains the best sao game released to date. The good: -Actual viable builds and slightly varying playstyles based on how you want to play -The AI isn't entirely dumb and will help you -Gun upgrades feel actually strong instead of always hitting with a toothpick -It doesn't need 90 billion different buffs for...
VaeskraRecommendedafter 20hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Experience an original story where you are the protagonist in the world of Gun Gale Online. Create your own avatar and explore devastated lands while experiencing exciting third person shooting in this action RPG.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 2 GB, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet scores 57/100 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/626690/sword-art-online-fatal-bullet
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Reviews 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 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+18
Critics61
Players79
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 19,521 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperDimps Corporation
PublisherBANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
GenreShooter
Released2018
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements63