Worth it for the right player.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $5.98.
- Story and characters: 75 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 40 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 12 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Crashes: 36 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Performance: 20 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Bugs: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 975 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 294 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
In addition, this game removed all the ending options, with the previous True End being the sole ending in this game, as well as introducing an autosave feature.
-Better graphics than VII
On the subject of the music in VIIR, the soundtrack/OST in this installment is incredibly good.
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Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
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.
Currently $5.98 (−81%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
The data behind the verdict
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We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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