Funny story and lovable characters
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“Disgaea 1 has something that the series has lost over time: a cohesive, enjoyable story.”
Steam review · 30 h played ↗
Disgaea PC
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Very Positive · 87%Very Positive · 87%Nippon Ichi Software, Inc.2016JRPG · Turn-Based Strategy · RPG
$19.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 4 h ago
The verdict
A funny, deep, endlessly grindable tactical RPG classic, but this PC port is abandoned, with crashes, AMD black boxes and clunky controls. Skip if you have an AMD GPU or can play Disgaea 1 Complete.
Great for
Number-go-up grinders and Disgaea fans who want the funny original on PC and tolerate dated design
Main risk
Abandoned port may crash or show black boxes (esp. AMD) and lacks Complete's QoL features
What players love
Deep, addictive grinding and number-go-up progression
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“The game continues with dopamine hits from getting your numbers into the millions and even billions.”
Steam review · 80.2 h played ↗
Nostalgic classic that still holds up
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Played it on the PS2 and it's still fun on Steam.”
Steam review · 92.8 h played ↗
Huge replayability and post-game content
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“I have sunk ~400 hours into this game and still have many hours until I 100% it.”
Steam review · 393.4 h played ↗
Great art style, music and design
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“Classic RPG with an amazing story, memorable music, and beautiful art style.”
Steam review · 35.9 h played ↗
What players complain about
Frequent crashes and unplayable bugs
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“The game frequently crashes at the most inopportune times, like when I'm deep into an item world run, costing an hour or more of progress every time.”
Steam review · 133.1 h played ↗
Broken on AMD GPUs: black boxes
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Do NOT buy if you use AMD graphics cards, the game is filled with black boxes everywhere and the devs don't care.”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗
Missing QoL and Complete-edition features
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“half of what makes Disgaea 1 complete great is absent here. No skips, no fast forward, everything is stuck in 2003.”
Steam review · 81.6 h played ↗
Tedious, overly grindy progression
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“This game is grindy... period. Repeating a single level 100 times to level up easy does not suggest it's not grindy, it proves that it is.”
Steam review · 54.9 h played ↗
Clunky mouse, keyboard and controller controls
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“only half the mouse commands are actually registered”
Steam review · 1.3 h played ↗
No autosave and punishing save system
Mentioned in ~1 in 25 negative reviews
“Doesn't include an autosave”
Steam review · 186.8 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support2 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 10/8/7
ProcessorIntel Core2 Duo 2.60 GHz
Memory1 GB RAM
GraphicsnVidia GeForce 9500 GT, ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5450 (OpenGL 3.0)
Storage2 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 10/8/7
ProcessorIntel Core i5-2500 3.30 GHz
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsnVidia GeForce GTS 450, ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5750
Storage2 GB available space
OSWindows 10/8/7
ProcessorIntel Core2 Duo 2.60 GHz
Memory1 GB RAM
GraphicsnVidia GeForce 9500 GT, ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5450 (OpenGL 3.0)
Storage2 GB available space
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