Sword Art Online: Lost Song
Fair · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 23.2h 46h to 100%
- Value
- $0.86/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 2,025 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
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About the game
Enter the VRMMO world of the much-loved anime SWORD ART ONLINE! In Alfheim Online, a world of fairies and magic, you become the hero of the series, Kirito, and together with your wondrous friends try to conquer the floating land of Svart Alfheim.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 650 / Radeon HD 7770, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 55 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 14 percent on value. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FINAL FANTASY XIV Online ($19.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Vindictus (free, scores 19).
More about Sword Art Online: Lost Song
Of the 554 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 391 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
84% start to 3% 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
What players say
Enjoyable game. Only 4 areas to explore but they felt full of things to do. Combat, dialogue and skill progression were fun. Biggest critique is that you are able to play as any character but sometimes you are forced to play as a particular character. (Especially Kirito.) And that made things extremely difficult when you havent been leveling them up.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The graphics can look a bit dated, but it's overall a nice experience coming from a sao game. Other than the overly sensitive mouse controls and the wobbly camera which i fixed later in the settings. Everything's good.
Here are reasons you might buy this game: 1. Fan service. All the girls have bikini, school, and towel outfits. 2. Flight. You can fly in "ALO". 3. Fan service. Breasts jiggle. I was genuinely surprised by how much those things get around. 4. Swords. It's an SAO game with swords. 5. Fan service. Body types range from Silica to Sakuya. Flying around in ALO sounded nice, and the game was on sale for about $3, so I got...
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Cite this score
Sword Art Online: Lost Song scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/840720/sword-art-online-lost-songReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.