CRYSTAR
Skip · RPG · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 23.1h
- Value
- $0.87/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA@ GeForce@ GTX 460 or better, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
For when I weep, then I am strong. Battle through Purgatory as Rei to help save her sister in this Action RPG. Switch freely between four playable characters, and uncover each one of their pasts to see the sorrows they have endured.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
April 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 47 in the 7 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 23 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 61 percent. On the same math FINAL FANTASY® XIII ($6.39, scores 47) and Eastward ($24.99, scores 61) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Steam's global achievement data says about 14 percent of players ever finish it. On a 23.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 585 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 183 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 23.1 hours. Doing everything runs 49, 2.1 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
69% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
8 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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CRYSTAR scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/981750/crystarThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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