Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition
Fair · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$49.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$9.9980% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.35/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 7,149
- Critics
- 83 players 3 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 8% RPG
Holding it back: DRM, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 36.9h
- To 100%
- 72.9h 2.0x the story
- Finish
- 21% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 36
Price and sales
- Sales
- 55 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $9.99 November 2021
- Sale every
- 47d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 56 now
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 89% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
81% start to 21% finishSteam 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 55 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 8 percent. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fuga: Melodies of Steel ($19.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Lost Eidolons ($6.99, scores 24).
More about Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition
Steam's global achievement data puts 21 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to November 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,088 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 265 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 24 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
What players say
If you're a fan of tactics, then this game is a NO-BRAINER purchase. Like the many games before it, Valkyria Chronicles 4 makes you feel like a hero. Using only your immediate resources and cobbled together recruits to battle enemies who outnumber and outgun you. Being a part of the political backline, making sure your units are being well-supplied and well-organized. I'll try to sing its praises as a stand-alone...
2 more reviews
I'll start with the negatives, as they all happen at first, but let me just say that the game is very good despite these early flaws! Before the game starts, you'll maybe face the first problem. It won't start. After checking the discussions, I saw thats a problem thats been present from the start. Lots of potential fixes later, the last comment I found fixed it for me. You simply unplug your controller, start the...
God, ok, look I'm a sucker for turn based strategy and the OG Valkyria Chronicles holds a special place in my heart. But I also have no time for anime (exception the original Ghost in the Shell movie is awesome, I digress). I can overcome my disdain for anime to tell you that the combat system in the good VC games is AWESOME. Nothing else like it that I have played. If you like turn based combat, you need to try...
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About the game
A Continent Engulfed in the Bitter Flames of War! Commander Claude Wallace and his childhood friends set out to fight in a desperate war, but bone-chilling blizzards, waves of imperial soldiers, and the godlike powers of the Valkyria stand between them and victory.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 650Ti 2GB, 36 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition scores 64/100 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/790820/valkyria-chronicles-4-complete-editionReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.