FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION

FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION

Fair · RPG · 2018

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

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

$34.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$13.9960% offFair

Cost per hour▼
$1.27/hr
Reviews▼
83% of 58,643
Genre rank
Top 8% RPG

Holding it back: DRM, Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert at $13.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
27.5h
To 100%
116.2h 4.2x the story
Achievements
97

Price and sales

Sales
51 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$10.49 September 2026
Sale every
61d last September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $10.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
280 now
Recent reviews
82% 30 days
Cheaper than
4% of its genre
Better reviewed
83% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

92% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This 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

It has been discounted 51 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 8 percent. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen ($29.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats FINAL FANTASY XIV Online ($19.99, scores 64).

More about FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION

7 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 1,581 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 27.5 hours; clearing it takes 116, which is 4.2 times the campaign.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.

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

Raising the score
Replayability~116h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 28h main story
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.27/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
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
Refunds7 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

A deeply flawed, gorgeous, messy masterpiece of a road trip with the boys. The gameplay swings between flashy warp-strike combat and cruising around in the Regalia, though the combat can easily be brute-forced just by spamming items. The lore and story building definitely could have been handled a lot better, but jamming to classic tracks and camping with Noctis and the crew somehow makes up for it. The ending is...
G 卄 0 丂 ㄒRecommendedafter 78h29 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is my favorite game. Of all time, it's not close. I would call Final Fantasy 15 a rushed, incomplete masterpiece. The game was in development hell for 10 years, so there's a bit of explanation that needs to be done why the game was rushed; from my understanding of events, the game started development as part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis series of games under the name Final Fantasy Versus 13. It underwent many...
sonicluke8Recommendedafter 254hOct 2026Read on Steam
I have never played a game with so much missed potential. Not in that there was missed opportunities, but seeing how cut up and rushed out this game is. There are sections hacked off and sown together in this Frankenstein of a game. The combat is poor, story full of disjoined missions and time skips, and a fairly interesting world and lore that just goes unanswered. I would have loved to see what this game could...
WesgoatNot recommendedafter 33h9 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

Take the journey, now in ultimate quality. Boasting a wealth of bonus content and supporting ultra high-resolution graphical options and HDR 10, you can now enjoy the beautiful and carefully-crafted experience of FINAL FANTASY XV like never before.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon R9 280, 100 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION scores 65/100 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/637650/final-fantasy-xv-windows-edition
Embed the live badge

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 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperSquare Enix
PublisherSquare Enix
GenreRPG
Released2018
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements97