SWORD ART ONLINE Fractured Daydream
SWORD ART ONLINE Fractured Daydream
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SWORD ART ONLINE Last Recollection
Developer AQURIA Co., Ltd.
The culmination of the SWORD ART ONLINE game series, Last Recollection features the largest roster of SAO playable characters and sub scenarios! From the Steam store page
196 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Sep 29, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
60
Fresh
97 positive · 65 negative
95% range 52–67%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 97 | 65 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 3 | 2 | 17 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
111 of 182 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
60% recommend · 100 yes, 66 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 166 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (347 of 579 positive).
Some players find it a satisfying conclusion to the gameverse, praising the story and character roster. [1][2][3] Others criticize it as a step back from previous games, with linear design and excessive grinding. [4][5][6] A few reviewers note improvements in optimization and combat over Alicization Lycoris. [7][8][9]
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- [4]
If you look for a good SAO you will be disappointed. Even after completing the game with 41 hours, my opinion didn't change. There are multiple reasons why: First of all, there is not much exploration in this game. The story tells you where to go and you are not allowed to do detours. There are also not even monster drops if you kill anything. Picking up materials from shiny shopts? Nope you get just Skillpoints. …
- [5]
This is half the game Alicization Lycoris was. It feels like a hastily thrown together game. -The world design is like it was back in Hollow Fragment; linear, simple, low detail. The world does not feel lived in like in AL. -There's a lot of mundane filler quests as part of the main story to pad game-play length. -There's half as much voice acting as the previous game. -The enemies take way too long to kill. -The …
- [1]
Large roster, great optimization, consistent story so far for a direct sequel to Alicization Lycoris. After finishing this game, I can wholeheartedly say that it wraps up the Gameverse in a pretty satisfying way, while paying homage to the previous games and characters both in this game and the ones that couldn't make it. It also solidifies the fact that this indeed is the last game in the series, and leaves no …
- [2]
For someone that played all SAO games, I really looking forward to play this game. After finish the game, to my disappointment, the game failed to met with my expectation. Story So far the story is the best of all SAO games. New character Dorothy is well presented compared to Medina from Alicization Lycoris. Scenario are well written, now during cut scene, character expression are well presented resulting a good …
- [3]
For an SAO game as a whole, it is lacking, especially compared to past games like Hollowed Realization or Fatal Bullet (Even Alicization Lycoris has more). But for a sendoff of the SAO Gameverse, its alright. Its nice to have the large roster to play around with, and its a nice touch to see what everyone was up to after the ending of the game, even if it was a brief telling with a sentence or two. As a Fatal Bullet …
Summarised from 34 of the 216 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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Players who liked SWORD ART ONLINE Last Recollection talk about great story and character writing; those who didn't talk about linear world design with little exploration. Which matters more to you?
Reactions
60 of 196 · most liked firstI bought this game so i could shoot kirito in the face
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you look for a good SAO you will be disappointed. Even after completing the game with 41 hours, my opinion didn't change. There are multiple reasons why: First of all, there is not much exploration in this game. The story tells you where to go and you are not allowed to do detours. There are also not even monster drops if you kill anything. Picking up materials from shiny shopts? Nope you get just Skillpoints. Skill proficiency is also non existent. If you liked to unlock all the Skill in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a tradition at this point, I am going to continue the reviews of SAO game series. This is the 6th game in the SAO Game Timeline. For people new to the game series, I would recommend reading/watching the Aincrad Arc, then starting from the 1st game, as the game series takes quite a different path than the Manga, Anime, and novels. You can find the 1st in the series, Hollow Fragments, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/638650/Sword_Art_Online_Re_Hollow_Fragment/]here. This game is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"System Call：Delete game , Refund , Discharge"。
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a lazy cashgrab and an insult to SAO fans. Button mash to win. Don't think, just mash. Linear. Push the control stick forward from point A to point B and that's it. Almost exactly the same as the war of the underworld anime arc. Just watch it instead of paying $60 on this. Nothing to unlock and leveling seems meaningless. All of the sword skills are unlocked by default with the exception of a few ultimate skills that seem to require endless grinding to achieve. The devs LOVE Kirito.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this game specifically for story coop but the pre-release info never specified that that there was no story coop just boss fight coop. If you play the story till you unlock multiplayer it could be up to 4hrs before you find out there is no story coop. Going refund.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is half the game Alicization Lycoris was. It feels like a hastily thrown together game. -The world design is like it was back in Hollow Fragment; linear, simple, low detail. The world does not feel lived in like in AL. -There's a lot of mundane filler quests as part of the main story to pad game-play length. -There's half as much voice acting as the previous game. -The enemies take way too long to kill. -The Finishing Moves are poorly animated and anticlimactic. They are just not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game... As a GREAT fan of SAO, Both the anime and the video games, I feel betrayed by the lack of vision, of quality, of innovation, of CHARACTER this series has followed. I've played almost every SAO game in some version since Hollow Fragment (no mobile games, and I missed Accel world vs. SAO, I still want to play it). Hollow fragment has a few issues, but had a few core ideas, following the Anime, that made things fit together and work. The world-building was genuine, The elements of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The worst release ever in SAO game's history, the game is a copy-paste of Alicization Lycoris, even worse gameplay wise,it has poor content post-story which is kinda short too. I finished the game ofc, otherwise I wouldn't have given the final verdict ,it's just bad, content wise and how it's made , there are many many problems, one of them is that cuz the story is short they made every mob/boss have a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of health so you must spend time on it, just cuz in this way they can tell out there…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fluid combat, the conclusion to the Sword Art Online "gameverse" story, as well as a solid performance on PC (thanks, Unreal Engine!) may attract SAO fans - but too much grinding, combined with enemies with too much HP, will push most of them away. It's not a bad game, it's just not one I can recommend. If you want to buy this, then do it when it's at least 50% off. Score: 6/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you liked SAOAL, this is like 1 step forward, 2 steps back. Some fun can be had here, but it's real disappointing compared to SAOAL... Some nitpicks: level from SAOAL doesn't carry over. like really? couldn't even just make you start at Level 100 Like SAOHF? No weapon Upgrading. Character Outfits are even more lackluster than SAOAL. Character Creation is the same as SAOAL, minus all the outfits that you had in it... Games doesn't even tell you that Accuracy is in this game until you finish…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely Not Recommended. - 2~5 Hours to unlock MULTIPLAYER MODE - Filled with invisible walls - Jump enabled only out of combat - Slow weapons - Static-On-Place animations (unable to move) - Can literally win most fights with just Mouse-Left-Clicking - Too many Visual Effects - Boring, Long and Unhelpful scenes - Must progress according to the game-quests in order to unlock some skills Hope 'Fractured Daydream' takes care of these points at least. This game misses the whole…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too much content getting cut,no intimacy mode,the size is too small for the climax of Sao games Better play alicization lycoris or hollow realization Please add the intimacy mode again
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you want to get into SAO gameverse, DON'T do it with this one. I can't recommend it, not even as a SAO fan and with the game being at 50% discount. Don't make the same mistake I did AQURIA has to stop creating SAO games. They did amazing work on HR, so I don't know what the f happened over there. Up to date this has to be the worst SAO game. Never would I have thought that LR would be so much worse than AL. The only improvement to AL is that it runs just a little better, and that the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hello everyone! My name is John Hooper, and I'm a Japanese->English translator/project manager who's been working in the industry for nearly a decade now! My work includes Root Double, Dies irae, Raging Loop, Iwaihime, Sword Art Online: Last Recollection, Kara no Shoujo/The Shell trilogy, and more!
neutral · AI labelView post →Large roster, great optimization, consistent story so far for a direct sequel to Alicization Lycoris. After finishing this game, I can wholeheartedly say that it wraps up the Gameverse in a pretty satisfying way, while paying homage to the previous games and characters both in this game and the ones that couldn't make it. It also solidifies the fact that this indeed is the last game in the series, and leaves no loose ends.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sequels expand their features and game mechanics, but what have they done here? They removed features and simplified things, that made a sao game a sao game! - Blacksmith and farming for weapon updgrade: gone, no blacksmith there, no upgrade for weapons or armor - Weapon Proficiency: gone, all sword skills are unlocked at the beginning, skill trees are only there to unlock buffs - the useless dating game: gone - "underworld" features (like "system control authority", "object control…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a few steps forward and a few back. Coming from the overly ambitious AL this is stripped down, focused, more balanced, and tight. I'm not sure if it's better for it or not. The game flows so we'll. Each zone is more like a metroidvania dungeon with different paths, elevations, and skills needed to unlock areas and routes. It's very satisfying exploring but there are no large open world zones like in the previous title. It removed bloat but lost something in doing so. I will say the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Having played and beaten all the other sao games i can hands down say this one is the worst one worst multiplayer worst maps and controls do not flow or feel natural
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Im a HUGE SAO fan so i gotta love this game im still still pretty early in the game but it feels like a continuation from lycoris. The gameplay feels similar but you deal more damage (my biggest complain about lycoris that enemies had way to much health). The main Cast is there right from the beginning and in the base i already found 3 hidden chests so i guess there is much to explore
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the one SAO game I cannot recommend based on what I've played (I'm at Chapter 8), the enemies are WAY too bulky for the levels in which I fight them at, the gameplay, while smoother has been completely nerfed and dumbed down, the story is lackluster, compared to previous entries (I'm looking at the likes of SAO:HR and SAO:FB for reference, who had good stories imo.) I do have a way to fix it: DON'T RELEASE ♥♥♥♥ DLC WITH NEXT TO NO ACTUAL CONTENT: It's nice that the bed-scenes were kept…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh, SAO games are very much a love them or hate them kind of game series. The short version for me is that I have enjoyed most of the SAO games, with the exception of Lost Song. Despite the overall performance issues of Alicization Lycoris, I did enjoy many aspects of it. Namely, the combat, the massive world you got to explore, and the sense of wonder it brought. This is the final SAO game (supposedly) in the gameverse of SAO. So how is this final chapter and send-off? Well, it's a mixed bag…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SO MANY LONG CUTSCENES AND POPUPS! I hated the amount of them in AL, and I hate the amount in LR. I give this game a 4.75/10. That being said, I don't hate the game/story or SAO. It's just the frequency of cutscenes that aggravates me. I reaaaaally wish I was able to enjoy it as much as I enjoyed FB, and who knows, maybe I will one day. Fatal Bullet did it right. I have zero bad memories from FB because it never bored me and didn't shove cutscenes down my throat every 2-5 minutes. Also…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For someone that played all SAO games, I really looking forward to play this game. After finish the game, to my disappointment, the game failed to met with my expectation. Story So far the story is the best of all SAO games. New character Dorothy is well presented compared to Medina from Alicization Lycoris. Scenario are well written, now during cut scene, character expression are well presented resulting a good emotion in the cut scene. Although I like the story and the way it is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Basically a butchered AL with tons of content and features removed. One step forward and then 10 steps back. Potentially one of the biggest regressions I've seen in gaming. I expected the sequel to build on what AL established but Aquria scrapped all of their ambition and went with the safest route possible to make one of the most boring SAO games of all time. All the dating minigames are gone, all bed scenes are forced into paid dlc with only a select few characters actually getting any…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The combat is far worse then Lycoris. Way more clunky and hard to land skill connects when it was far easier in the last game. They made this game for the most brain dead players who just button mash to win.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't The art is terrible The combat is messy The dialogues are awry All characters look off That's not SAO, that's some cheap fake
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They made this game a real Smash button to Win, should have given the option for it rather than force the new system, I really like all the previous game, not sure why they change the battle system, and i miss Free Roam, this is a very linear game, no fall damage no exploring just follow path A, so i would not recommend it currently.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →simply put, everything that you enjoyed from the first game has been cut from this one. the co op aspect has been completely changed from the first, no co op story or free roam anymore. its just pick a boss. fight it together and thats it. the sacred arts has been dumbed down so much and AI are absolutely 10 times more stupid then the first. the game was simplified by only mashing one button for combos. its just different. looks and plays better than AL but the chamges are a hard pill to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The worst SAO game I have ever played... It just feels super cheap and lazy and tiny with barely any outfits to choose from... DLC is really bad and lazy too considering how much content was in the previous game this feels like a massive downgrade of a game that just runs a little smoother at best.. Save your money buy a better SAO game or something else
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It feels empty, dragged out at every turn, and the writing is worse then some chat bots. I wanted to like it but even when I speed the game up with a cheat engine, which did improve the flow greatly, there just wasn't anything but long vague fetch quests at best. Then there are the cut scenes... Maybe if there weren't chunks of dialogue left in without english subtitles it may have felt less forced. Overall this is the worst SAO game and I have played all the mainline games with some of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of the better SAO games out there and, after playing the demo and full release, I can confirm that they've improved a lot since Lycoris. I've compiled some of my positives and negatives below so that other's may figure out for themselves whether the game is worth the cost or not. Positives: -Great graphics: Although the graphics do drop to the worst settings possible during certain cut-scenes, the graphics during gameplay far surpass Fatal Bullet and Lycoris. It also runs at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought this game on a recommendation from a friend thinking it would be Lycoris but better, but once getting into the game theres no coop story mode, the open world is completely gone, every area is just a long corridor, the voiced dialogue just stops half way through the story and periodically starts again for some lines and stops again rinse and repeat and the only online is fighting monsters with others and just takes you back to the lobby.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For an SAO game as a whole, it is lacking, especially compared to past games like Hollowed Realization or Fatal Bullet (Even Alicization Lycoris has more). But for a sendoff of the SAO Gameverse, its alright. Its nice to have the large roster to play around with, and its a nice touch to see what everyone was up to after the ending of the game, even if it was a brief telling with a sentence or two. As a Fatal Bullet fan I did love seeing the GGO Player mentioned a few times when talking to some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →just watch on interweb Even buying deluxe at 80%off for the sake of finish the final part of story, game still feel overpriced. it's amazing to endure outdated game play designs in a modern engine, a truly ridiculous experience. The combat is the same old mobile gaming crap. The visual is a little better due to the unreal engine. Chapter 10 is one boring stupid chore for first play through. No, there is no new game plus. Bonus: Dorothy's big tiddies are for fan service
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good for solo players but the multiplayer is ass. They took a bunch of steps back from the previous game. I do not rec. multiplayer. Wtf, were you all thinking?! This should have been a dlc for the previous installment. Not worth the money at all
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →crazy how Aquria manages to get worse and worse
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just play because i expected more. (Sorry for my english, not my primary language.) SPOILER ALERT. Boring gameplay which just need to skill spam and order tactics to make your npc less dumb. I unlocked almost everything and the only thing which is "good" would be raid dungeon which have 3 in total and they are lv 80+ You will unlock unison skills which are just animated combo with another char, changing nothing in damage or gameplay. You will unlock a few skins to SOME characters, most…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought the $100 game for $106 with taxes so I can watch my wallet burn as I am a total nut case, you bought it because you expected something good. We are not the same, I am built different.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →lycoris is better in combat, however its a must buy for those rlly die hard sao fans
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is a complete mess. Story is okay but half-baked. The most annoying thing about this game is the enemies are ridiculous damage sponges, and the whole thing is just a grindy chore. Probably the worst SAO game I've ever played. That said, I did like the short collaboration with a certain character, which lasted all of 15 minutes but was still a nice touch. And the credits, surprisingly well done, super emotional and probably the most touching part of the whole game. Overall, hard pass.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →genshin yap fest but cooler
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →hollow shell of a game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →humbs down. My first sword art was the vs one... cool vertical world to explore, tons toons to play, things to see, craft and side things to do. The second sword art was SA Alicization Lycoris. Loved the graphics, open world, monster drops, crafting, dating, huge dungeons, fishing and so on. So I had high Hope's for this game, world is just small map zones, no need to kill any basic mov, they drop nothing. No need to raise rank to 5 star, no dating, no need to cook, or craft, no Matt's.…
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neutral · AI labelView post →I absolutely hate the main story dungeon where saving is disabled. I got through about 70% of it and then the game suddenly crashed. I wasted 2 hours of playing just to get thrown back to my previous save. I'm so mad!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →nothing to say, TERRIBLE
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →STARBURST STREAMMMMM!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love it, they fixed a lot of issues with previous games.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is hindered by its predecessor and overall a much better game than Lycoris
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sword Art Online Last Recollection does make some refinements to Lycoris' gameplay making it smoother then its predecessor, however some of the streamlining and changes they do for party mechanics and battle mechanics imo make it much more mindless and less deep then any other Aquria SAO game and in the process kind of remove aspects of what makes Aquria sao games sao games gameplay wise. Most of the NMs and enemies are spongey as hell no matter the difficulty so the story can slog despite it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SWORD ART ONLINE Last Recollection — Launch Trailer.
neutral · AI labelView post →PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for August: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Wild Hearts, Cult of the Lamb and more. Extra and Premium: - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | PS4, PS5 - Wild Hearts Standard Edition | PS5 - Cult of the Lamb | PS4, PS5 - Ride 5 | PS5 - Watch Dogs 2* | PS4 - Sword Art Online: Last Recollection | PS4, PS5 - Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker* | PS4 - Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris | PS4 - Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet | PS4 - Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization | PS4…
neutral · AI labelView post →I would honestly have more fun watching YouTube ads than play this game any further.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Story 6/10 gameplay 7.5/10 audio 9.5/10 extra content 7/10 Over all I give this game a solid 7 wait for sale not a day 1 purchase
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Needs a lot of work. Cut scenes sometimes don't sync, combat is smoother than AL but the online has taken a downturn. Enjoyable portions but overall disappointing for a 2023 SAO game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In many aspects, this game is exactly what Lycoris should have been. The devs realised what they are good at, and focused on those things. The story is amazing, the characters well written. This time, they also luckily didn't try to make an open world. The last game kind of already proves that these devs aren't too good at that... So this time around, the world and story progression are very linear - as they should be in a story focused game! However... gameplay seems to be even more…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Enjoying the combat change! The mobs not being so spongy is also great! Top rated down vote complains about agro range and I don't think we are playing the same game. I gota be almost on top of the mobs before they attack. P.S Rain best girl.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →after i play Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition TOTAL PLAYED 2٬097 hours i can tell u guys It's the best game I've played all the other sword art online so far. This will remain the best part if u rly love the anime just buy this game and leave the other only buy Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition and have fun ♥♥♥♥ all other game I bought this game so i could shoot kirito in the face Play it 2500 hours (( Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe…
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