Granblue Fantasy: Relink

Granblue Fantasy: Relink

Worth it · RPG · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 4 of 8 sales

Worth it at $39.99.

Cost per hour▼
$2.56/hr
ReviewsA
90% of 56,388
Critics
82 players 8 higher
Genre rank
Top 3% RPG

Holding it back: Monetization, Cost per hour

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
15.6h
To 100%
132.1h 8.5x the story
Finish
50% reach the ending
Achievements
96

Price and sales

Sales
12 on record
Typical cut
55% off
Steam low
$23.99 June 2025
Sale every
48d last October 2026
Lowest now $37.19 at Fanaticalall-time low $21.12 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
2,625 now
Recent reviews
85% 30 days
Cheaper than
3% of its genre
Better reviewed
94% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

97% start to 50% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam 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

12 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 55 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 3 days ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 3 percent. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN ($39.99, scores 40) and Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen ($29.99, scores 76).

More about Granblue Fantasy: Relink

82 from critics against 90 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Steam's global achievement data puts 50 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 2,293 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (boost, cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.

15.6 hours to finish it, 132 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 8.5 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 3 days ago.

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
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Replayability~94h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 16h main story
Engagement50% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.56/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
MonetizationBoost, Cosmetic
In-game spending, a moderate drag
For context
Refunds9 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
In-app purchasesBoost, CosmeticPCGamingWiki

What players say

I love GBFR, but there are some major caveats. Let's get this out of the way first: the unending Monster Hunter comparisons. There are similarities. That's it. They both operate primarily out of a quest counter. They are both primarily boss fights, though GBFR is almost entirely MH arena quests. Each character(GBFR)/weapon(MH) has a unique playstyle. And that's about it... The gameplay is NOTHING like MH. Imagine...
JigglesRecommendedafter 601h4 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
early game - "oh this is easy no big deal" mid game - "damn okay some dodges and a bit tanky" end game - "YOU'RE SPAMMING ALREADY IT JUST STARTED"
BeansDedRecommendedafter 148h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Simply love the game, the story was a bit ok not that crazy good for me but the gameplay after you beat the story is 100/10 the upgrade system is nice, the sigil transmutation, and the min/max gear chase and optimizing how the character is played is also great. The monsters are usually the same with a re-skin and maybe a few new moves but the deeper you go into the difficulty the true version of that monster shows...
MoximeRecommendedafter 434h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

A grand adventure in the skies awaits! Form a party of four from a diverse roster of skyfarers and slash—or shoot or hex—your way to victory against treacherous foes in this action RPG. Take on quests solo or with the help of others in up to 4-player co-op play!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB, 90 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Granblue Fantasy: Relink scores 79/100 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/881020/granblue-fantasy-relink
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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+8
Critics82
Players90
Metacritic critics · 56,388 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperCygames, Inc.
PublisherCygames, Inc.
GenreRPG
Released2024
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements96