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VALKYRIE ELYSIUM

Square Enix · 2022-11-11

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ActionRPG

Franchise: Valkyrie Profile · Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 11, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 28, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Sep 28, 2022 (PlayStation 5)

Long ago, Ragnarok—the End Times—loomed upon the realms. The All-Father Odin, with the last of his strength, created an emissary of redemption, Valkyrie; her sole task being the salvation of a doomed world.

63%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
66/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$59.99
steam price (US)
Valkyrie Elysium is an action role-playing video game developed by Soleil and published by Square Enix. It was released on September 29, 2022 for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, and on November 11 for Windows. Part of the Valkyrie Profile series, it was the first home console installment in more than 15 years, and the third overall. Like its predecessors, the game is significantly based on Norse mythology, and follows Maria, a valkyrie who is created to find and purify souls to help an injured Odin defeat Fenrir, during Ragnarok. Elysium, a spiritual sequel, uses an action, rather than turn-based, battle system. The game received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the game's character design, artwork, combat system, voice acting, and music, but the narrative was criticized as weak, and the graphical quality was seen as low-budget, with environments lacking in detail or things to interact with.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 60 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8/week).
  • · Review velocity up 46% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (295 reviews).
  • · Top 30% of 11,749 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 24k–55k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,215 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $17.99 at Humble Store (2025-09-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
18818820222026Week of 2022-11-01: 188 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 107 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

165702026-06-05 — 109 pageviews2026-06-08 — 74 pageviews2026-06-11 — 113 pageviews2026-06-14 — 139 pageviews2026-06-17 — 105 pageviews2026-06-20 — 91 pageviews2026-06-23 — 109 pageviews2026-06-26 — 99 pageviews2026-06-29 — 130 pageviews2026-07-02 — 98 pageviews2026-07-05 — 132 pageviews2026-07-08 — 104 pageviews2026-07-11 — 143 pageviews2026-07-14 — 114 pageviews2026-07-17 — 102 pageviews2026-07-20 — 102 pageviews2026-07-23 — 95 pageviews2026-07-26 — 119 pageviews2026-07-29 — 100 pageviews2026-08-01 — 112 pageviews2026-08-04 — 119 pageviews2026-08-07 — 91 pageviews2026-08-10 — 112 pageviews2026-08-13 — 111 pageviews2026-08-16 — 133 pageviews2026-08-19 — 80 pageviews2026-08-22 — 101 pageviews2026-08-25 — 77 pageviews2026-08-28 — 70 pageviews2026-08-31 — 111 pageviews2026-09-02 — 84 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

49
achievements tracked
86.6%
earned "An Impure Soul"
19.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultyKeyboard Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputStereo SoundSteam Cloud1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)6,4404%49
PS4 (PlayStation)1,9447%49
Steam (Steam)9394%49

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGDarkJRPGActionFantasyViolentMedievalMythologyAction RPGAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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