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Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero

Nippon Ichi Software, Inc. · NIS America, Inc. · 2025-04-24

SteamPlayStation Store

AdventureRPGStrategy

Franchise: Disgaea · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Apr 24, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 30, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Jan 30, 2025 (PlayStation 4), Jan 30, 2025 (Nintendo Switch)

Join Marona and her Phantom friends on a mission to defeat the sinister Shipwreck Fleet! Recruit Phantoms, bind them to objects, combine them with Gadgets, and even merge them with Marona herself in this Play-It-Your-Way RPG.

54%
positive of 109 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
83/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
4.23★
PlayStation Store rating (508 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$59.99
steam price (US)
Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero is a tactical role-playing game developed by Nippon Ichi Software. It is the sequel to 2004's Phantom Brave and released on January 30, 2025 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch, and on April 24, 2025 for Windows.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (45 reviews).
  • · Top 38% of 29,427 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.2k–4.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 109 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $29.99 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
272720252026Week of 2025-04-24: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-04-24: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-05-08: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-08: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-15: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-29: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-24: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
81.4%
earned "Cleared Chapter 1"
34.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsIn-App PurchasesDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Cloud10 DLC

2 supported languages: English, Japanese

Post-launch support: 10 DLC released, first 2025-04-24 (Steam store data)

Player tags

3DRPGJRPGAnimeMagicCombatComedyFantasyColorfulStrategy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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