
It is a time of war. Galbadia, a Global Superpower, has declared war on Dollet, a country whose training academy is home to two personalities: the hot-headed Seifer and the 'lone wolf', Squall Leonhart. Both are equally at conflict with each other as their country is with Galbadia; to others, Squall appears lacking in team spirit, while...
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Prices
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
11 of 15 markets; the rest we haven't asked for this title, not markets where it is unavailable.
Availability
We put this game to every storefront we collect. A market that answered not sold has told us something about the game; a market we never asked has not, and the two are never drawn the same.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 1/day in the week to Aug 4 → 1.86/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Reviews
Themes across 104 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
I genuinely recommend this over the "Remaster". Add the "Roses and Wine" mod to fix the music, add the mod that fixes the Quetzacotl sound, and you're good to go.
TLDR: If you're okay with mods: Go with this version. If you want the easiest purchase and play: Go with the remaster. Junction system doesn't warrant the outrage it usually gets. I am playing this game for the first time, completely on my Steam Deck. I chose this version of the game vs the remaster. After doing some research the general consensus is that if you don't mind mod-ing the original Steam version is the way to go. Not only can you get upscaled character models, but unlike the remaster you can also upscale the backgrounds as well, so those are also crisp. I am using the Junction VIII mod manager and it was super easy to download and use. In the manager there is everything from music fixes, texture packs and QOL options as well. Game wise: I recently just got to the end of disk 1 and this game is easily becoming one of my favorites in the franchise. I know there are A LOT of strong options about the Junction system and look, it is very different and there is obviously is a learning curve, but if you take the time to learn it instead of fighting with it, it allows for a wide range of customization. We can't complain that games always "play it safe" and are more of the same and then when they try something different, complain. The game play is fun and since the enemies scale with you you aren't grinding in the traditional sense, but there is some grind that you can do in terms of drawing magic. The story is interesting and engaging AND it's our lord and savior Ben Starr's favorite FF game and that's gotta mean something. And not for nothing, this game is frequently less than $10. Will you get AT LEAST $10 worth of fun out of it? ABSOLUTLEY.
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11 on sale4 answered “not sold”0 we did not ask
The 4 “not sold” markets are read from the Steam price pass of Sep 8: that day the store answered for this game elsewhere and gave no price in those. The 11 priced markets are the same rows as the table above — each the latest price we hold, dated here when it is older than that pass. The 0 marked “not asked” were not put to this store at all — either it has no storefront there or we do not collect it yet, and neither is a statement about the game. A refusal is a refusal on one day; a store can list a title again tomorrow.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain
Hours played at review time, across 104 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Don't play the remastered version of this game, this one RIGHT HERE THE OG is cracked. Doggo, you will always be my most beloved FF character. The game is very cinematic and gives you more reason to love Leon.
fantastic game, unfortunately this feels like a terrible way to play it. between the cheap launcher, wacky controller support and bad soundtrack quality, it's a bit of a struggle to recommend. i mean yeah you can mod all of those but i'm not reviewing mods here, i'm reviewing what is being sold directly on Steam. i guess a thumbs up if you want to play FF8 but don't mind dealing with inevitable modding and jank to get the game to play and sound right?
First time playing FF8 so far is a great game from the franchise, now I know why a lot people love FF8 so much. For those playing in Linux maybe will get some headache to run the first time you need to add this line in launch option and problem solve PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%
Need to fix the controller not registered unless you do a bunch of jumping through hoops. It's 2026, connecting a controller to a game shouldn't be hard for a game that's from 1998.
I'll be waiting for you .If you come here, you'll find me. I promise. <3
I put 113 hours into FFVIII and I’m still not sure if Squall likes anyone, including me. But honestly? I loved every minute. The junction system is weird until you break it, then suddenly you’re doing 9,999 damage at level 12 and wondering why you ever doubted it. Triple Triad ate more of my life than I want to admit. The soundtrack still slaps. The story goes completely off the rails in the best way. If you enjoy JRPG chaos, teen angst, and card games that ruin your sleep schedule, this one’s worth the time.
Long story short, DO NOT BUY THE REMASTERED. Get this version, save 1/2 euro, download junction viii and mod it to make it better than the so called """"remastered"""" version.
The writing of this game is truly horrible. Just play through the D-District Prison segment and you'll be shaking your head. How about abandoning your post while preparing to assassinate someone because you feel like you should go and apologize to a person you were a bit unkind towards earlier? The junction system and having to draw magic are also a huge downgrade from FF7 and how materia and magic work in that game.
Active players
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Players by region
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