OCTOPATH TRAVELER™
Worth it · RPG · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $17.99.
- Length
- 60.2h
- Value
- $0.30/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 76% over the last 30 days against 85% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD Radeon R7 260X (2GB VRAM) / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750(2GB VRAM), 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Eight travelers. Eight adventures. Eight roles to play. Embark on an epic journey across the vast and wondrous world of Orsterra and discover the captivating stories of each of the eight travelers.
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 $17.99. That was April 2026. It has been discounted 37 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 9 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FINAL FANTASY V ($10.79, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake ($29.99, scores 49).
Players rate it 85 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 76 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 693 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
7 years after release, 602 people were playing it when we last checked, on Sep 30, 06:45 UTC.
The drop-off
82% start to 1% 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
602 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 06:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I love the different approaches you can take....gives the game a lot of replay-ability
Hadn't played a pixel style game since the before times. I'm only about halfway through the game and already know that this is a game I will end up replaying in the future- great story.
i hope i get more addicted to this game. kinda want to 100% it, but knowing me i won't. very good game.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
OCTOPATH TRAVELER™ scores 72/100 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/921570/octopath-travelerReviews 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 18, price as of Oct 1.
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