DRAGON BALL FighterZ

DRAGON BALL FighterZ

Worth it · Action · 2018

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it at $9.59.

Cost per hourS
$0.80/hr
ReviewsA
90% of 77,100
Critics
85 players 5 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% Action
Why
No price makes it a BANGER.

Score at full price

Worth it$59.99

Score today

−84%Worth it
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
12h
To 100%
51.1h 4.3x the story
Achievements
35

Price and sales

Sales
75 on record
Typical cut
84% off
Steam low
$8.99 April 2021
Sale every
39d last November 2026
Lowest now $8.99 at Fanaticalall-time low $4.46 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
652 now
Recent reviews
89% 30 days
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
96% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

62% 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

April 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $8.99. 75 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 84 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. The nearest things to it, Fraymakers ($19.99, scores 44) and Killer Instinct (free, scores 65), are both worse buys on this math.

More about DRAGON BALL FighterZ

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 29 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 568 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 3,720 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

12 hours to finish it, 51 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.3 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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$0.80/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set. That is today's sale price. Normally $5.00/hr
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Replayability~51h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 12h main story
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
For context
Refunds29 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

Who else bought this game after watching Lythero play it, but has no one to actually play it with?
Mr.YixRecommendedafter 86h9 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
An interesting take that returns to classic 1v1 2D-style combat, yet features a fresh, three-dimensional anime aesthetic for Dragon Ball. I'd wanted to try it for a long time, but I was always too swamped with other things, so I kept putting it off until this year, when I finally gave it a go, and it's absolutely beautiful. It's packed with references and nods, and it even offers little "what-if" scenarios like a...
MiXRecommendedafter 44hOct 2026Read on Steam
if they removed the easy anti cheat off this game and fixed it for linux steam deck users to play online, then i would easily recommend it
PlaystationDudeNot recommendedafter 3.4h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

DRAGON BALL FighterZ is born from what makes the DRAGON BALL series so loved and famous: endless spectacular fights with its all-powerful fighters.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Radeon HD 6870, 1 GB / GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 1 GB, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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DRAGON BALL FighterZ scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/678950/dragon-ball-fighterz
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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 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+5
Critics85
Players90
Metacritic critics · 77,100 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperArc System Works
PublisherBandai Namco Entertainment
GenreAction
Released2018
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements35