Engaging story and worldbuilding
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“A great FEEL GOOD story. Deep enough to be interesting but not complicated enough to give you a headache.”
Steam review · 95.8 h played ↗
Tales of Zestiria
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 81%Very Positive · 81%BANDAI NAMCO Studio Inc.2015JRPG · Action RPG · RPG
$49.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A flawed but charming story-driven Tales JRPG with likable characters, great music and a deep but poorly explained combat and gear system. Skip it if you want polished gameplay or a smooth PC port.
Great for
Tales fans and story-focused JRPG players who like character banter and tinkering with gear systems
Main risk
Convoluted, poorly explained combat and equipment systems plus a 30fps-locked, crash-prone port
What players love
Likable characters and party banter
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“No.1 in terms of characters development.”
Steam review · 60.3 h played ↗
Deep, rewarding combat once learned
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“this game's combat became fun and satisfying as I was able to string together long combos on enemies.”
Steam review · 83 h played ↗
Great soundtrack and opening
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“Best music in any Tales game I've played.”
Steam review · 151.4 h played ↗
Connection to Tales of Berseria
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“I think what really sticks with me with this game is the connection with Tales of Berseria.”
Steam review · 459.4 h played ↗
Cheap on sale
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews
“This game periodically goes on sale for $5 now which is an amazing price for a Tales game.”
Steam review · 12.8 h played ↗
What players complain about
Weak, generic story and characters
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“The plot is "I am 14 and this is my first-ever DnD campaign!" levels of generic”
Steam review · 76.2 h played ↗
Clunky, overcomplicated or dull combat
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“the devs made it so unnecessarily over-complicated and bloated with "features" that it crosses well past the line of laughable”
Steam review · 11.8 h played ↗
Convoluted, unexplained gear and fusion system
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“It's RNG to the third power.”
Steam review · 19.4 h played ↗
Bad camera and bad controls
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“if you're fighting somewhere that isn't, the cameraman is your greatest foe.”
Steam review · 43.9 h played ↗
30 FPS lock and poor PC port
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“30 FPS is unacceptable for a PC game, I had to use mod to make it 60 FPS”
Steam review · 20.8 h played ↗
Crashes and launch failures
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“crashes at anything but 48 or 44.1 khz audio, crashes when alt tab, crashes if you haven't played in a while, crashes if you play too long.”
Steam review · 7.8 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: PlayableController support12 GB
Minimum
OSWindows Vista, 7, 8, 10
ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+, 2.6GHz
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon HD 4830 or equivalent
Storage12 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 7 (x64) / Windows 8 (x64) / Windows 10 (x64)
ProcessorIntel Core i3-530, 2.93 GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 940, 3.0GHz
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti / AMD Radeon HD 7850 or equivalent
Storage12 GB available space
OSWindows Vista, 7, 8, 10
ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+, 2.6GHz
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon HD 4830 or equivalent
Storage12 GB available space
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