Outstanding story and characters
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“The story is one of the best ever made”
Steam review · 4173.2 h played ↗
FINAL FANTASY XIV Online
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 86%Very Positive · 86%Square Enix2014MMORPG · JRPG · RPG
The verdict
A huge, story-driven MMO with great expansions, music and community, but a slow start and a messy Square Enix account and subscription setup. Skip it if you want quick gameplay or a one-time purchase.
Great for
Story lovers and Final Fantasy fans who are patient with a slow start and happy to pay a monthly sub
Main risk
Struggling with the Square Enix account/launcher and subscription, or bouncing off the slow, story-gated early game
What players love
Friendly, helpful community
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“People are just really nice, especially toward new players.”
Steam review · 554.2 h played ↗
Huge amount of content
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“the amount of content Final Fantasy XIV throws at you is honestly insane”
Steam review · 406.4 h played ↗
Generous free trial
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and it's critically acclaimed expansions Heavensward, Stormblood, and Shadowbringers up to level 80 for free”
Steam review · 1841.7 h played ↗
One character can play every job
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“One of my favorite things is the job system. I like being able to try different jobs on the same character”
Steam review · 554.2 h played ↗
Great music and soundtrack
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“The music is what brought me to the game in the first place, however, and is worth playing the game for alone.”
Steam review · 4637.1 h played ↗
What players complain about
Account, launcher and login problems
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews
“Was easier to file my taxes than it was to try and log into this game.”
Steam review · 22.9 h played ↗
Misleading purchase and monthly subscription
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“even though you paid for the game, you don't own anything past a 30 day window.”
Steam review · 5.1 h played ↗
Slow early game gated by the MSQ
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“Everything is behind the MSQ.”
Steam review · 64.7 h played ↗
Boring fetch quests and cutscene padding
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“Just play any other single-player FF game and you will have a much better time than wasting 200+ hours on boring fetch quests and cutscene simulator.”
Steam review · 125.2 h played ↗
Slow content cadence and weak Dawntrail
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews
“Content cadence is unacceptably slow, each patch feels like it has less and less to do”
Steam review · 8212.6 h played ↗
Jobs dumbed down and homogenized
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 negative reviews
“Every new expansion they dumb down combat more and more, they have now killed the identity of every class”
Steam review · 4201.9 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable140 GB
Minimum
OSWindows® 11 64 bit
ProcessorIntel® Core™i5-8400 or higher
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or higher, AMD Radeon RX 480 or higher
Storage140 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows® 11 64 bit
ProcessorIntel® Core™i7-9700 or higher
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or higher, AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT or higher
Storage140 GB available space
OSWindows® 11 64 bit
ProcessorIntel® Core™i5-8400 or higher
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or higher, AMD Radeon RX 480 or higher
Storage140 GB available space
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