Funny fourth-wall-breaking writing and references
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“The characters are absolutely hilarious, I had a blast reading through the story.”
Steam review · 42.1 h played ↗
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 94%Very Positive · 94%IDEA FACTORY Co., Ltd., COMPILE HEART Co., Ltd., FELISTELLA Co., Ltd.2015JRPG · Turn-Based Combat · RPG
$14.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 1 h ago
The verdict
A silly, charming gaming-parody JRPG with cute characters and decent combat, but heavy grinding, difficulty spikes and recycled assets. Skip it if you hate grinding.
Great for
Fans of cute anime casts, meta humor and gaming references who don't mind grinding
Main risk
Heavy grinding, difficulty spikes and repetitive recycled dungeons wear you out
What players love
Lovable, charming characters
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The characters are what really sells it, and there isn't a dull one in the bunch!”
Steam review · 34.6 h played ↗
Engaging turn-based combat with customization
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“combat is engaging and uses a turn-based combo system i havent seen before.”
Steam review · 36.6 h played ↗
Cute art style, music and voice acting
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“the soundtrack is fairly good and recognizable”
Steam review · 38 h played ↗
Good fit as a series entry point
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews
“Would recommend as the first game to play for the series, since it's a main title and shows off what the gameplay will be like for later entries.”
Steam review · 97 h played ↗
Lots of content and replayability
Mentioned in ~1 in 30 positive reviews
“tons of content”
Steam review · 37.4 h played ↗
What players complain about
Excessive grinding
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews
“This is literally Grinding: The Game. It's supposed to be around 30 hours long, and almost all of it is grinding the same maps over and over.”
Steam review · 18.9 h played ↗
Unbalanced difficulty and boss walls
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“The difficulty is all over the place, and you'll easily find yourself going from brainlessly stomping enemies in one dungeon only to get completely obliterated by them in the next one”
Steam review · 13.2 h played ↗
Repetitive combat with shallow strategy
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“Your EXE Drives do so much more damage than literally anything else including your SP skills that there's literally no reason to do anything else.”
Steam review · 129.9 h played ↗
Poor PC port: controls, input prompts and settings
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“Playing on a keyboard is an absolute nightmare. I had to rebind half the keybindings just to make the game remotely playable.”
Steam review · 40.9 h played ↗
Recycled dungeons, enemies and assets
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“many dungeons are copy-pasted and many enemies are reskinned version of each other”
Steam review · 19.7 h played ↗
Crashes and technical problems
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews
“Crashes randomly on Steam Deck, often during the last hp moments of a boss which is incredibly frustrating.”
Steam review · 13.5 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support7 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7 (64bit)
ProcessorCore2Duo 2.66 GHz
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsDirectX 10.x or OpenGL 3.3 with video card with 1GB ram and support for v4 shaders
Storage7 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 7 or 8 (64bit) or newer
Processor3GHz Intel i3 or equivalent
Memory6 GB RAM
GraphicsDirectX 10.x or OpenGL 3.3 with video card with 1GB ram and support for v4 shaders
Storage7 GB available space
OSWindows 7 (64bit)
ProcessorCore2Duo 2.66 GHz
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsDirectX 10.x or OpenGL 3.3 with video card with 1GB ram and support for v4 shaders
Storage7 GB available space
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