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.hack//G.U. Last Recode
.hack//G.U. is back! This collection includes all 3 original .hack//G.U. titles, Rebirth, Reminisce, and Redemption, all fully restored and remastered. As well as an all new 4th Volume: .hack//G.U. Reconnection.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
39 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“.hack//G.U. Last Recode is the definitive way to experience one of the most unique JRPG sagas from the PS2 era. This remastered collection bundles the original trilogy—Rebirth, Reminisce, and Redemption—with a brand-new…”
“The search for the Key of the Twilight continues. .hack//G.U. takes place after the original IMOQ tetralogy, but introduces a new cast of characters and a new version of The World. The gameplay has been significantly…”
“was gifted to me by a friend because I like .hack//SIGN and the books, only 4 hours in and I'm really enjoying it! I honestly would've bought it for myself (because sale) had my friend not gifted it to me so quickly…”
13 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“The search for the Key of the Twilight continues. .hack//G.U. takes place after the original IMOQ tetralogy, but introduces a new cast of characters and a new version of The World. The gameplay has been significantly…”
“4 ps2 games in one. very immersive storyline, great character development, idle card battle and collection, simple non-complex rpg system, and more. I recommend this for people who wants a breather from hard games.…”
“A classic, always love to play this game. If you don't wanna pay full price, wait for a sale but it's worth buying if you wanna play a good ol' action RPG like the PS2 days even with Vol. 4 being short and okay, the…”
11 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“- simple combat system but really addictive - unique protagonist trait and character development (based on my experience) - really worth it if you buy during discounting period (regularly 80%-90% discount on many steam…”
“.hack//G.U. Last Recode ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PLAYTIME: 41 Hours ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RATING BREAKDOWN: • Graphics: 7/10 - "Not bad" • Gameplay: 10/10 - "Can't stop playing" • Audio: 8/10 - "Nice…”
9 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“4 ps2 games in one. very immersive storyline, great character development, idle card battle and collection, simple non-complex rpg system, and more. I recommend this for people who wants a breather from hard games.…”
“No Spoilers: I only just finished Vol 1 at about 40 hours in. I took my time and the thing that took me the longest was finding every NPC. But you could easily complete Vol 1 in 20 hours. It just takes a while if you're…”
“A classic, always love to play this game. If you don't wanna pay full price, wait for a sale but it's worth buying if you wanna play a good ol' action RPG like the PS2 days even with Vol. 4 being short and okay, the…”
8 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“was gifted to me by a friend because I like .hack//SIGN and the books, only 4 hours in and I'm really enjoying it! I honestly would've bought it for myself (because sale) had my friend not gifted it to me so quickly…”
“i Played this and the rest of the dot hack series when it originally came out, Playing back through this was a real hit of nostalgia. Has it aged well? Lets be honest its very of its time judging it by mordern standards…”
“.hack//G.U. Last Recode ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PLAYTIME: 41 Hours ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RATING BREAKDOWN: • Graphics: 7/10 - "Not bad" • Gameplay: 10/10 - "Can't stop playing" • Audio: 8/10 - "Nice…”
19 of the 104 reviews raise this · 15 of them still recommend the game.
“my save file got deleted. after 15 hours of playing. AFTER 15 GRUELING HOURS OF PLAYING THIS GAME WITH THE MOST SHALLOW COMBAT AND SHOUNENSLOP STORY OF ALL TIME. WHO IN THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO…”
“i Played this and the rest of the dot hack series when it originally came out, Playing back through this was a real hit of nostalgia. Has it aged well? Lets be honest its very of its time judging it by mordern standards…”
11 of the 104 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Cloud support was removed, thanks for deleting my save you ♥♥♥♥♥”
“I completed the three main games on my PS2 years ago. I wanted this edition for the fourth game, but I replayed it because I didn't remember anything. Due to lack of space on my hard drive, I decided to delete it, only…”
“my save file got deleted. after 15 hours of playing. AFTER 15 GRUELING HOURS OF PLAYING THIS GAME WITH THE MOST SHALLOW COMBAT AND SHOUNENSLOP STORY OF ALL TIME. WHO IN THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO…”
4 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“my save file got deleted. after 15 hours of playing. AFTER 15 GRUELING HOURS OF PLAYING THIS GAME WITH THE MOST SHALLOW COMBAT AND SHOUNENSLOP STORY OF ALL TIME. WHO IN THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO…”
“The protagonist has got to be one of the most unpleasant ones ever. It's a struggle to not uninstall this game every time he talks. Reading the other reviews, he apparently improves down the road, but I'm 12 hours in,…”
“I have been a .hack// fan for decades now, and this game is a STEEP slide backwards. Instead of improving the (admittable) flaws of the combat from the original series, G.U. reinvents it entirely but wait... This time…”
3 of the 104 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“Good game, but I encountered a bug that deleted all of my save data so be careful if you wanna pick this game up,”
“Very disappointing experience considering I spent 2x as much on a controller to more easily play this as I did on the game itself, which has bugged halfway? through Volume 1. Save data, with cloud saving off, keeps…”
Counted across 104 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 86.9% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“Might as well play it before .hack//Z.E.R.O comes out. A great RPG series that I'm finally glad is returning in the modern era.”
— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs played“YES, YES, YES~! It's a niche series, but the story as a whole is solid enough. Also, Z.E.R.O. got announced!! dot.Hack is Back!!!”
— a player, Steam review · 150 hrs played“I finished Part 1 and 2 of .hack//G.U. Last Recode and I’m currently playing Part 3, planning to finish Part 4 this year. I actually started this game last year. I’ve been a fan of the anime since childhood when .hack//Sign used to air on Cartoon Network India I think I watched…”
— a player, Steam review · 69 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Traditional Chinese language support patch confirmed!
Due to high demand and request from our fans, language support for Traditional Chinese will be included in the upcoming patch, allowing for more fans to experience "The World" first hand. Please await
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | RPG |
| Player tags | RPG · JRPG · Anime · Singleplayer · Story Rich · Action RPG · Great Soundtrack · Action · Fantasy · Classic · Hack and Slash · Adventure (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Partial Controller Support · Remote Play on TV · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Japanese * , Traditional Chinese * |
| Achievements | 52 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required) Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 940, 3.0 GHz / Intel Core i3-2100, 3.10 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Radeon HD 6870, 1 GB / GeForce GTX 460, 768 MB DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 40 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX compatible soundcard or onboard chipset