FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE
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How do players who really played FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE rate it? TrueGG Rating 87.8%

Release date: Feb 1, 2018 Data as of 2026-10-19 View on Steam ↗

Players who really played rate it about the same as Steam overall. Early impressions are weaker, so the first few hours tend to decide whether it clicks. Recent reviews are falling.

Good for

  • Players willing to push through a slow start
  • Players who want to soak in the world and atmosphere

Think twice if you are

  • Players who judge a game in the first hours (early ratings are lower)
  • Players bothered by bugs (reports of crashes and bugs)
  • Players who want variety (reports that it gets monotonous)

A rule-based guide from review patterns (no AI). How

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗
87.8%
± 0.9 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 20+ hours (last 180 days) · 467 reviews

TrueGG, all time
91.9%
Steam overall
88.7%
Japanese, all time
78.4%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 5.5% of all reviews. Their positive share is 54.1%.

This is not a drop-off rate; it describes who wrote reviews. Refund guide: within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours of play (Steam refund policy).

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Does the rating change the longer people play?

Used for TrueGG Rating (20h+)JapaneseRight: reviews
Positive share by playtimeRanges from 20 hours up are highlighted. Exact values are in the table below.0%25%50%75%100%0–1 h29%311–2 h23%132–5 h55%675–10 h71%7210–20 h74%9820–50 h84%16950–100 h88%170100–200 h92%97200+ h94%31Positive share by playtime0–1 h3129%1–2 h1323%2–5 h6755%5–10 h7271%10–20 h9874%20–50 h16984%50–100 h17088%100–200 h9792%200+ h3194%

Positive share by playtime at the time of review (reviews from the last 180 days). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.

Show chart values as a table
PlaytimePositiveJapaneseReviews
0–1 h29.0%0.0%31
1–2 h23.1%0.0%13
2–5 h55.2%25.0%67
5–10 h70.8%33.3%72
10–20 h74.5%20.0%98
20–50 h84.0%36.4%169
50–100 h88.2%90.9%170
100–200 h91.8%100.0%97
200+ h93.5%100.0%31

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 20+ hours. 63% had 20+ hours and 16% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE has a TrueGG Rating of 87.8%: the positive share among 467 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 20+ hours, close to Steam's overall 88.7%. Players who really play it broadly agree with the headline number (all time: 91.9%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 6% of the total, and only 54% of them are positive. Some players bounce off early, but those who get past the opening rate it higher. Steam accepts refund requests within 2 hours of play and 14 days of purchase.

Negative reviews most often mention crashes and bugs, boredom (more than at launch), and pacing (more than at launch). Positive reviews praise how fun it feels, performance, and the world and atmosphere.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 78.4%, 9.4 points below all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (88.9% adjusted), so Steam's number is not noticeably distorted by key giveaways or throwaway reviews.

All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-19.

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Why it is rated this way

What drives the rating

Complaints center on the game's design (Boring / repetitive, Movement & pacing, Grind). These rarely change with updates, so the rating likely reflects the game itself. Judge by whether it suits you. It is also a game many people bounce off early (early reviews are much less positive than those of players who stuck with it).

− Most mentioned complaints

  • Crashes & bugs24% of negative reviews (7% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players · ongoing since launch
  • Boring / repetitive21% of negative reviews (4% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · more than at launch
  • Movement & pacing13% of negative reviews (9% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · more than at launch · 5 positive reviews say it improved
  • Grind11% of negative reviews (7% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · ongoing since launch · 7 positive reviews say it improved
  • Updates & developers8% of negative reviews (4% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · less than at launch · 6 positive reviews say it improved

+ What players praise

  • Fun & feel35% of positive reviews (18% of negative)
  • Performance9% of positive reviews (6% of negative)
  • World & atmosphere8% of positive reviews (4% of negative)
＋ ニューゲーム＋ インターナショナル＋ ヤズマット＋ 綺麗＋ イヴァリース＋ 世界＋ バルフレア＋ 時代− walk− refund− please− boring− seem− dull− broken− money

Counted from 395 recent negative and 525 positive reviews in Japanese and English, using our published topic dictionary. No AI is used. Topics overlap, so shares do not add up to 100%. Sarcasm and nuance are not detected, and this does not show cause and effect.How we count

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Checking the numbers

Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.

MetricPositiveScope
Official Steam rating88.7%All time, all languages · 10,372 reviews
Adjusted rating88.9%Weighted by trust (95% range 88.6%–89.2%), +0.2pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews70.3%All time, Japanese-language reviews (−18.4pt vs overall) · 320 reviews
Show the positive vs negative breakdown

Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.

ConditionPositive reviewsNegative reviews
Under 2 hours played at review1%19%
Very short text22%4%
Key activated outside Steam15%13%
Received for free0%1%
Owns very few games10%8%
Over 100 reviews written7%11%
Average trust (1.0 = full)0.850.83

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 45.4 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-19

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When did the rating change?

Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.

Reviews per month

■ Positive■ Negative
0 500 1,000 2018-02: +780 / −137 2018-03: +99 / −11 2018-04: +34 / −4 2018-05: +24 / −6 2018-06: +56 / −10 2018-07: +62 / −19 2018-08: +25 / −4 2018-09: +27 / −0 2018-10: +17 / −3 2018-11: +117 / −3 2018-12: +47 / −7 2019-01: +35 / −4 2019-02: +22 / −7 2019-03: +23 / −8 2019-04: +12 / −3 2019-05: +14 / −4 2019-06: +80 / −4 2019-07: +65 / −5 2019-08: +20 / −4 2019-09: +21 / −10 2019-10: +17 / −7 2019-11: +81 / −3 2019-12: +97 / −7 2020-01: +98 / −6 2020-02: +73 / −8 2020-03: +124 / −12 2020-04: +206 / −20 2020-05: +255 / −31 2020-06: +96 / −11 2020-07: +113 / −15 2020-08: +69 / −3 2020-09: +88 / −7 2020-10: +105 / −10 2020-11: +74 / −4 2020-12: +79 / −6 2021-01: +93 / −11 2021-02: +59 / −6 2021-03: +100 / −7 2021-04: +105 / −12 2021-05: +81 / −7 2021-06: +73 / −8 2021-07: +89 / −9 2021-08: +62 / −8 2021-09: +54 / −5 2021-10: +94 / −9 2021-11: +58 / −5 2021-12: +73 / −7 2022-01: +94 / −13 2022-02: +52 / −4 2022-03: +78 / −11 2022-04: +46 / −8 2022-05: +59 / −6 2022-06: +52 / −5 2022-07: +79 / −10 2022-08: +67 / −5 2022-09: +72 / −6 2022-10: +46 / −8 2022-11: +53 / −2 2022-12: +62 / −7 2023-01: +79 / −7 2023-02: +39 / −4 2023-03: +71 / −6 2023-04: +64 / −8 2023-05: +60 / −8 2023-06: +42 / −7 2023-07: +93 / −10 2023-08: +40 / −4 2023-09: +51 / −3 2023-10: +40 / −1 2023-11: +46 / −1 2023-12: +93 / −12 2024-01: +99 / −6 2024-02: +77 / −9 2024-03: +82 / −10 2024-04: +63 / −8 2024-05: +72 / −12 2024-06: +56 / −6 2024-07: +58 / −13 2024-08: +59 / −7 2024-09: +63 / −8 2024-10: +63 / −7 2024-11: +47 / −4 2024-12: +80 / −12 2025-01: +81 / −8 2025-02: +52 / −5 2025-03: +68 / −11 2025-04: +61 / −9 2025-05: +69 / −9 2025-06: +58 / −11 2025-07: +84 / −5 2025-08: +70 / −10 2025-09: +71 / −8 2025-10: +68 / −11 2025-11: +74 / −8 2025-12: +75 / −26 2026-01: +83 / −29 2026-02: +73 / −24 2026-03: +74 / −15 2026-04: +64 / −11 2026-05: +71 / −45 2026-06: +106 / −26 2026-07: +104 / −15 2026-08: +80 / −27 2026-09: +74 / −20 2026-10: +40 / −13 2018/022019/012020/012021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01

Positive share per month

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Monthly data overall 87.9% 2018-02: 85.1%2018-03: 90.0%2018-04: 89.5%2018-05: 80.0%2018-06: 84.8%2018-07: 76.5%2018-11: 97.5%2018-12: 87.0%2019-01: 89.7%2019-03: 74.2%2019-06: 95.2%2019-07: 92.9%2019-09: 67.7%2019-11: 96.4%2019-12: 93.3%2020-01: 94.2%2020-02: 90.1%2020-03: 91.2%2020-04: 91.2%2020-05: 89.2%2020-06: 89.7%2020-07: 88.3%2020-08: 95.8%2020-09: 92.6%2020-10: 91.3%2020-11: 94.9%2020-12: 92.9%2021-01: 89.4%2021-02: 90.8%2021-03: 93.5%2021-04: 89.7%2021-05: 92.0%2021-06: 90.1%2021-07: 90.8%2021-08: 88.6%2021-09: 91.5%2021-10: 91.3%2021-11: 92.1%2021-12: 91.3%2022-01: 87.9%2022-02: 92.9%2022-03: 87.6%2022-04: 85.2%2022-05: 90.8%2022-06: 91.2%2022-07: 88.8%2022-08: 93.1%2022-09: 92.3%2022-10: 85.2%2022-11: 96.4%2022-12: 89.9%2023-01: 91.9%2023-02: 90.7%2023-03: 92.2%2023-04: 88.9%2023-05: 88.2%2023-06: 85.7%2023-07: 90.3%2023-08: 90.9%2023-09: 94.4%2023-10: 97.6%2023-11: 97.9%2023-12: 88.6%2024-01: 94.3%2024-02: 89.5%2024-03: 89.1%2024-04: 88.7%2024-05: 85.7%2024-06: 90.3%2024-07: 81.7%2024-08: 89.4%2024-09: 88.7%2024-10: 90.0%2024-11: 92.2%2024-12: 87.0%2025-01: 91.0%2025-02: 91.2%2025-03: 86.1%2025-04: 87.1%2025-05: 88.5%2025-06: 84.1%2025-07: 94.4%2025-08: 87.5%2025-09: 89.9%2025-10: 86.1%2025-11: 90.2%2025-12: 74.3%2026-01: 74.1%2026-02: 75.3%2026-03: 83.1%2026-04: 85.3%2026-05: 61.2%2026-06: 80.3%2026-07: 87.4%2026-08: 74.8%2026-09: 78.7%2026-10: 75.5% 2018/022019/012020/012021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

0 2 4 6 8 2026-09-19: +2 / −1 2026-09-20: +5 / −2 2026-09-21: +4 / −0 2026-09-22: +6 / −2 2026-09-23: +2 / −1 2026-09-24: +2 / −1 2026-09-25: +0 / −0 2026-09-26: +6 / −0 2026-09-27: +2 / −1 2026-09-28: +3 / −0 2026-09-29: +1 / −0 2026-09-30: +3 / −2 2026-10-01: +1 / −1 2026-10-02: +2 / −0 2026-10-03: +1 / −0 2026-10-04: +4 / −3 2026-10-05: +6 / −2 2026-10-06: +1 / −1 2026-10-07: +2 / −0 2026-10-08: +0 / −1 2026-10-09: +1 / −1 2026-10-10: +2 / −0 2026-10-11: +4 / −2 2026-10-12: +2 / −1 2026-10-13: +2 / −1 2026-10-14: +3 / −0 2026-10-15: +2 / −0 2026-10-16: +0 / −0 2026-10-17: +1 / −0 2026-10-18: +6 / −0 09/1909/2610/0310/1010/17
Show monthly data as a table
MonthPositiveNegativePositive
2018-0278013785.1%
2018-03991190.0%
2018-0434489.5%
2018-0524680.0%
2018-06561084.8%
2018-07621976.5%
2018-0825486.2%
2018-09270100.0%
2018-1017385.0%
2018-11117397.5%
2018-1247787.0%
2019-0135489.7%
2019-0222775.9%
2019-0323874.2%
2019-0412380.0%
2019-0514477.8%
2019-0680495.2%
2019-0765592.9%
2019-0820483.3%
2019-09211067.7%
2019-1017770.8%
2019-1181396.4%
2019-1297793.3%
2020-0198694.2%
2020-0273890.1%
2020-031241291.2%
2020-042062091.2%
2020-052553189.2%
2020-06961189.7%
2020-071131588.3%
2020-0869395.8%
2020-0988792.6%
2020-101051091.3%
2020-1174494.9%
2020-1279692.9%
2021-01931189.4%
2021-0259690.8%
2021-03100793.5%
2021-041051289.7%
2021-0581792.0%
2021-0673890.1%
2021-0789990.8%
2021-0862888.6%
2021-0954591.5%
2021-1094991.3%
2021-1158592.1%
2021-1273791.3%
2022-01941387.9%
2022-0252492.9%
2022-03781187.6%
2022-0446885.2%
2022-0559690.8%
2022-0652591.2%
2022-07791088.8%
2022-0867593.1%
2022-0972692.3%
2022-1046885.2%
2022-1153296.4%
2022-1262789.9%
2023-0179791.9%
2023-0239490.7%
2023-0371692.2%
2023-0464888.9%
2023-0560888.2%
2023-0642785.7%
2023-07931090.3%
2023-0840490.9%
2023-0951394.4%
2023-1040197.6%
2023-1146197.9%
2023-12931288.6%
2024-0199694.3%
2024-0277989.5%
2024-03821089.1%
2024-0463888.7%
2024-05721285.7%
2024-0656690.3%
2024-07581381.7%
2024-0859789.4%
2024-0963888.7%
2024-1063790.0%
2024-1147492.2%
2024-12801287.0%
2025-0181891.0%
2025-0252591.2%
2025-03681186.1%
2025-0461987.1%
2025-0569988.5%
2025-06581184.1%
2025-0784594.4%
2025-08701087.5%
2025-0971889.9%
2025-10681186.1%
2025-1174890.2%
2025-12752674.3%
2026-01832974.1%
2026-02732475.3%
2026-03741583.1%
2026-04641185.3%
2026-05714561.2%
2026-061062680.3%
2026-071041587.4%
2026-08802774.8%
2026-09742078.7%
2026-10401375.5%
Show daily data as a table
DayPositiveNegative
2026-09-1921
2026-09-2052
2026-09-2140
2026-09-2262
2026-09-2321
2026-09-2421
2026-09-2500
2026-09-2660
2026-09-2721
2026-09-2830
2026-09-2910
2026-09-3032
2026-10-0111
2026-10-0220
2026-10-0310
2026-10-0443
2026-10-0562
2026-10-0611
2026-10-0720
2026-10-0801
2026-10-0911
2026-10-1020
2026-10-1142
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Recent sentiment

PeriodPositiveReviews
Last 30 days78.7%108
Last 180 days78.0%745
All time88.7%10,372
Japanese, last 180 days50.0%44
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