The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II
Worth it · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99, a BANGER if it drops to $38.72.
- Length
- 45.8h
- Value
- $0.87/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Shader Model 5 (GeForce 400 / Radeon HD 5000 / Intel post-2012 series), 19 GB of storage. Windows only.
Civil war has broken out across Erebonia. After his narrow escape from Trista, Rean will take up his sword again on a journey with his Divine Knight, Valimar, in search of his friends from Class VII and a way to end the conflict before its price becomes far too dear...
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $19.99. That was June 2021. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 53 in the 9 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $38.72 BANGER line 53 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grimm's Hollow (free, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Ikenfell ($19.99, scores 74).
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 12 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
None of the 442 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
The main story runs 45.8 hours. Doing everything runs 102, 2.2 times as long.
The drop-off
91% start to 10% 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
31 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 05:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I absolutely adore Trails in the Sky, Trails from Zero, and Trails to Azure. Enough to say they're my favorite games ever, and that they're the pinnacle of the JRPG genre. So, I went in to Cold Steel 1 and 2 expecting another outstanding experience, but I found them to be sorely lacking in nearly every department compared to their predecessors. Cold Steel 2 is by no means a bad game, and I do recommend it, but it...
MASSIVE step up from Cold Steel 1. The entirety of Cold Steel 1 is a prologue. Hours and hours of political set up and character introductions in a world already filled to the brim with personality. By the end of Cold Steel 1, I was feeling burnt out, frankly. Finally, with Cold Steel 2, we are back to the exciting and intricate narrative I've come to expect from Falcom. This amazing game is your reward for making...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/748490/the-legend-of-heroes-trails-of-cold-steel-iiReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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