Tales of ARISE
Fair · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $49.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 41h
- Value
- $1.22/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 68% over the last 30 days against 87% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 760 or Radeon HD 7950, 45 GB of storage. Windows only.
300 years of tyranny. A mysterious mask. Lost pain and memories. Wield the Blazing Sword and join a mysterious, untouchable girl to fight your oppressors. Experience a tale of liberation, featuring characters with next-gen graphical expressiveness!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $19.79, set in December 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 19 in the 3 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 10 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen ($29.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas ($14.99, scores 49).
Players rate it 87 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 68 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 5 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 1,039 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (boost, cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
84% start to 2% 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
182 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
A pretty solid JRPG title. Not amazing, but not bad either. The story was great... until it wasn't. There are some pretty fun character interactions here and there. Combat feels good and smooth, and you can swap between different characters, each with their own playstyle (or just play one character through the entire thing and forget you can even swap). The graphics are visually appealing, and the game has some...
Already play the base game since it was realese on PS4, saw it on sale much cheper than only the base game, play it again from the start it is still a solid JRPG game.
3/10 Whoever was responsible for creating names in this game needs to be fired (the monsters are called "Zeugles" ARE YOU KIDDING ME!). I can't hold a straight face when this word is spoken. What am I fighting, a fricken teletubbie? Besides that the graphics are nice, but seeing the same animation over and over is repetitive. Combat is clunky, Only a few moves can combo into eachother; This leads to slow and boring...
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.
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Tales of ARISE scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/740130/tales-of-ariseThe 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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