FINAL FANTASY IX Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-21
- Memorable charismatic characters
- Excellent story
- Outstanding soundtrack
- Best Final Fantasy title
- Poor PC port quality
- Tedious and unfair minigames
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMpositiveWindows 12-15GB VRAMnegative
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 14,475
- Positive
- 13,76995.1%
- Negative
- 7064.9%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,031,759
- Estimated revenue
- $21,656,621
- Game price
- $21
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 90.49%
- Estimated copies lost
- 642
- Estimated revenue lost
- $13,476
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 90.5% Avg playtime 0.8h | 221.2% Avg playtime 0.8h |
| > 2h playtime | 764.1% Avg playtime 41.2h | 1,73694.2% Avg playtime 69.8h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.5 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 4.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 31.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,841.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,843 total
Organic purchasers1,60286.9%
Voted up: 95%
Key activations24113.1%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,843 total
First impression0-2h522.82%
Voted up: 81%
Mid game2-10h32217.5%
Voted up: 94%
Late game10-20h20311.0%
Voted up: 93%
Endgame20h+1,26668.7%
Voted up: 97%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
94.4%
Global baseline 95.4%
89 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 14,475 total.