FINAL FANTASY VIII

FINAL FANTASY VIII

Steam Deck Playable

Square Enix · JRPG · Dec 5, 2013

Yes, worth buying.

It's at its lowest recorded price, $4.79.

88%
Very Positive
9k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 162 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Audio: 48 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 37 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Crashes: 13 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Difficulty: 12 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Performance: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 9k player reviews · updated 8 hours 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
27% of themes are praise37% are divided36% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
Depending on the Guardian Forces you junction to your characters and what they have learned, you can equip various abilities and stat junctions to make them more powerful.
162 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
Although it has nothing on FF7's soundtrack, I love a pretty good majority of the tracks in this game like the battle theme, Balamb Town, FH, Lunatic Pandora and the main theme song "Eyes on Me".
48 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
-Stunning visuals for its era
37 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 love3 themes
Story and characters162 reviews
Audio48 reviews
Graphics37 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Gameplay55 reviews
75%
Controls50 reviews
48%
Combat47 reviews
74%
Interface13 reviews
77%
Players complain% still recommend
Crashes13 reviews
23%
Difficulty12 reviews
58%
Performance6 reviews
67%
Bugs6 reviews
50%

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. One more theme was raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and is not shown.

Should you buy it now?

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

Lowest ever recorded

Currently $4.79 (−60%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

5 points recordedtoday · $4.79

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
88%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
45
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

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