CHRONO CROSS: THE RADICAL DREAMERS EDITION

CHRONO CROSS: THE RADICAL DREAMERS EDITION

Steam Deck Verified

Square Enix · JRPG · Apr 7, 2022

It depends on what you're after.

It's at its lowest recorded price, $7.99.

61%
Mixed
2k player reviews
Medium confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 95 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 51 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Audio: 37 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Crashes: 140 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Performance: 43 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 18 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 2k player reviews · updated 3 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
33% of themes are praise42% are divided25% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
The beautiful locations, creative enemy designs, and broad and eclectic roster of characters weaves a world with a unique and fantastical atmosphere.
95 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
CHRONO CROSS: THE RADICAL DREAMERS EDITION is a remastered version of the beloved 1999 PlayStation classic, brought to modern platforms with enhanced visuals, quality-of-life updates, and for the first time in the West, an official localization of Radical Dreamers, the text-based side story that connects Chrono Cross to Chrono Trigger.
51 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
While one or two of his original pieces for Cross feel phoned-in, the soundtrack on the whole is a phenomenal progression of Trigger's melodies.
37 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Interface
Players who bring up Interface mostly praise it.
They just reused and cropped her pause menu asset.
10 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love4 themes
Story and characters95 reviews
Graphics51 reviews
Audio37 reviews
Interface10 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Steam Deck43 reviews
37%
Combat36 reviews
69%
Gameplay27 reviews
81%
Linux compatibility7 reviews
71%
Optimization6 reviews
0%
Players complain% still recommend
Crashes140 reviews
31%
Performance43 reviews
60%
Bugs18 reviews
56%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Lowest ever recorded

Currently $7.99 (−60%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

5 points recordedtoday · $7.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
61%
Mixed
Playing right now
Achievements
37
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.