Eternal Radiance

Eternal Radiance

Fair · RPG · 2020

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
9.6h 16.1h to 100%
Value
$2.08/hr
Reviews
84% of 473 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Engagement14% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.08/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews84% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 82% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 372 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

About the game

Eternal Radiance is an action role-playing game about a squire named Celeste who begins a journey to prove herself worthy of becoming a true knight.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 25 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Phoenotopia: Awakening ($19.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty ($39.99, scores 0).

More about Eternal Radiance

Steam's global achievement data puts about 14 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 372 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to June 2026.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 9.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

49% start to 14% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

What players say

For a man who need a simple hack-and-slash game, this game is for you. It's the only non-idle game over a year that I have touched beyond 1 hour in a very busy week, suggesting the "simple fun" factor. By "simple" I mean you don't need to contract a migraineous headache or burn your precious time in order to battle and build your character to perfection while trying to progress the game. I'd like to compare the...
raithkimahliRecommendedafter 2.6h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Quite a good hidden gem indie anime game 🟢 Visual novel style story with 3D combat 🟢 Beautiful artstyle and character design 🟢 Decent story. It's more on the chill side, lacks indepth plots 🟢 Equipment stats can be deeply customized 🟢 The NPCs and character dialogues were pretty good 🟢 Great soundtracks 🔴 Game does not have V-Sync and forcing it through driver does not work. There's inbuilt FPS limiter but it has...
ChaosBusterRecommendedafter 17hOct 2023Read on Steam
The game becomes unbearably hard and unfair not because the bosses have difficult paterns, but because: 1. Your AI partners are very stupid. They can't dodge or deal damage as fast as you can. They have no positioning at all. 2. You take damage even if you are stunned. And yes, you can't roll to the other side to dodge a projectile - you'll get it, don't worry about it 3. Bosses in chapters 4-6 have the wildest...
ExicrossNot recommendedafter 5.2h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Eternal Radiance scores 51/100 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/923570/eternal-radiance
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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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperVisualnoveler
PublisherVisualnoveler
GenreRPG
Released2020
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements15