Tales of Symphonia
FIRST TIME ON STEAM – Based on the PlayStation®3 port of the original GameCube game, this RPG classic is finally available for PC.
Action RPGJRPGOpen WorldRole-Playing
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- Released
- 2003
- Developer
- Namco Tales Studio
- Platforms
- 2 systems
- Critics
- Not scored
- Steam Deck
- verified
- Download
- 7 GB
What is Tales of Symphonia?
FIRST TIME ON STEAM – Based on the PlayStation®3 port of the original GameCube game, this RPG classic is finally available for PC.
Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.
The record
| First released | 29 August 2003 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Namco Tales Studio |
| Publisher | Namco |
| Platforms | Nintendo GameCube, Steam Deck |
| Genres | Action RPG, JRPG, Open World, Role-Playing |
| Languages | 5 supported |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q496526, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.
How was Tales of Symphonia received?
Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.
Accessibility
Seeing
None declared
Hearing
None declared
Input
- Full controller support
Difficulty
None declared
Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
What does it support?
| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| Controller | full support |
| Cloud saves | Yes |
| Cross-platform play | No |
| Mod support | No official workshop |
| Online play | Single-player only |
| In-game purchases | No |
| Steam Deck | verified |
| Download size | 7 GB |
| Add-on content | None listed |
| Age gate | None |
Content descriptors
- General mature content
Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.
What does it cost?
Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.
Is Tales of Symphonia worth it?
85% of 5,196 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. It costs $19.99 on Steam.
That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.
How long is Tales of Symphonia? How long to beat it
Total play time for Tales of Symphonia is about 189.7 hours to do everything, and around 46.3 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.
| How you play | Hours | Players logged |
|---|---|---|
| Just the main story: straight through the critical path | 46.3h | 361 |
| Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do | 62.4h | 406 |
| Completionist: everything: 100% the game | 189.7h | 56 |
At its current price of $19.99, beating the main story works out to about $0.43 per hour. That is the price divided by the hours, a value read and not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being the better game.
Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.
Tales of Symphonia system requirements
The minimum requirements from Tales of Symphonia's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.
| Memory | 1 GB RAM (other games at this level) |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+, 2.6GHz |
| Graphics | Nvidia GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon HD 4830 · runs on a low-end GPU |
| Storage | 7 GB (more games this size) |
Can your PC run it? Check Tales of Symphonia against your exact GPU, CPU and RAM.
Where Tales of Symphonia sits on the grid
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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
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How positions are decided
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Estimated sales for Tales of Symphonia
These are estimates, not reported figures. Namco Tales Studio has not published unit sales for Tales of Symphonia, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.
How this was calculated
Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.
| Reviews on Steam | 5,196 |
|---|---|
| Sales per review | 30 to 60 |
| List price | $19.99 |
| Assumed average selling price | 33% to 66% of list |
What this cannot tell you
Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.
The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.
The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.
Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.
If Namco Tales Studio publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.
Tales of Symphonia price & deals: is it on sale?
We have one reading so far: $19.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.
What readers say about Tales of Symphonia
Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.
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Problems players report
We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Tales of Symphonia on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.
- Performance and stutter27 of 300 (9%)
For those not aware, this is based off of the PS2 version that came out after the original GameCube version which runs at 30 FPS in addition to introducing other issues such as screen space constraints causing whole lines of dialogue to be lost.
Steam review, 1 December 2023 · 2 hours played · 212 readers marked it helpfulThere is a community made patch that makes the game look better (I recommend it if you do buy this) but as of writing this no one has found a way to get this game to hit 60 fps.
Steam review, 11 August 2020 · 5 hours played · 87 readers marked it helpful - Crashes and freezes22 of 300 (7%)
the game itself is fun but the steam release deadass just doesnt work and i keep having to restart my pc cus the game will crash and freeze on a white screen and i cant alt tab or alt f4 out of it and its just annoying as hell to deal with
Steam review, 27 September 2025 · 15 hours played · 14 readers marked it helpfulI've never had a game crash so many times on launch (actually, I've never had a game crash on launch via steam...
Steam review, 11 March 2024 · 1 hours played · 7 readers marked it helpful - Will not launch or install14 of 300 (5%)
The comments section if full of people like me who load the game and have a black screen.
Steam review, 1 December 2024 · 1 hours played · 20 readers marked it helpfulBlack Screen Need Load Multiple Times to Be okay.
Steam review, 6 June 2018 · 2 hours played · 4 readers marked it helpful
A further 11 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.
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Games like Tales of Symphonia
24 games overlap with Tales of Symphonia on the tags Steam players applied to it, on genre, and on theme. The closest are Secret of Mana, Tales of Zestiria and Ōkami.
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Common questions about Tales of Symphonia
What platforms is Tales of Symphonia on?
Tales of Symphonia is available on Nintendo GameCube, Steam Deck. It first released in 2003.
How much does Tales of Symphonia cost?
$19.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.
Do players recommend Tales of Symphonia?
85% of 5,196 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.
Does Tales of Symphonia work on Steam Deck?
Valve rates Tales of Symphonia as verified on the Steam Deck, from its own testing. That means it works out of the box with no configuration.
How big is the Tales of Symphonia download?
7 GB on PC, from the storage requirement on its Steam listing. Console versions differ.
Who made Tales of Symphonia?
Tales of Symphonia was developed by Namco Tales Studio and published by Namco.
Is Tales of Symphonia worth it in 2026?
85% of 5,196 Steam reviews are positive (Very Positive), and it is $19.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.
Is Tales of Symphonia on sale?
Not at the moment. Tales of Symphonia is at its $19.99 list price on Steam, read on 30 August 2026. It has been cheaper before; the price history above shows when.
What are the system requirements for Tales of Symphonia?
At minimum, Tales of Symphonia needs 1 GB RAM, a Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+, 2.6GHz, a Nvidia GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon HD 4830, 7 GB of storage, from its Steam listing. That is what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings. Check it against your own PC on the can-I-run page.
How long does it take to beat Tales of Symphonia?
about 46.3 hours for the main story, 62.4 hours with the main extras, 189.7 hours to complete everything, from HowLongToBeat's player-submitted times. These are community medians, so your own run may be shorter or longer.