Tales of Eternia Remastered Editions Compared: Standard vs Deluxe

Most players should buy the $29.99 Standard. The $49.99 Deluxe Edition adds a digital artbook, all 109 in-game music tracks, a battle-music pack and a set of stat-boosting support items, and none of it changes the story, the battles or the difficulty.

If you already own the Standard, the same four extras are sold on their own for $24.99 on Steam, PlayStation and Xbox.

• Standard, $29.99: the whole game. Nothing is held back from it.
• Deluxe Edition, $49.99: the game plus the Digital Artbook, Digital Soundtrack, Battle BGM Pack and Super Growth Support Item Set.
• Already bought Standard? Pay $24.99 for the Deluxe content instead of buying the game again. Steam, PlayStation and Xbox each sell it as a separate Deluxe Upgrade Pack.
• The price is the same on every store: $29.99 and $49.99 on Steam, PS4/PS5, Xbox Series X|S and the Nintendo eShop for both Switch and Switch 2. Nintendo is the only one without a $24.99 upgrade pack.

The two editions side by side

What the $29.99 Standard includes

Tales of Eternia Remastered is the remaster of the 2001 action RPG, rebuilt by TOSE and published by Bandai Namco. It is a single-player game, and Bandai Namco’s launch announcement lists every platform it arrived on: PC through Steam, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2.

The remaster’s own additions are quality-of-life changes, not new systems. You can toggle a Graphics Mode and an SFX Mode between the remastered look and sound and the originals. A Boost setting adjusts experience gain and encounter rate, destination markers point out story beats and items, auto-battles run at high speed, and Battle Retry puts your items back after a loss. Extreme difficulty is available from the start, and a tougher Unknown difficulty unlocks once you finish the game.

None of that is locked behind the Deluxe. The Standard runs the same two-world story, the same real-time side-view battle system and the same difficulty modes as the Deluxe. Bandai Namco also shipped an update on November 2, 2026 for the PlayStation, Xbox and Steam versions, and asks players to apply it before playing.

What the $49.99 Deluxe Edition actually adds

Bandai Namco lists four things in the Deluxe, and only one of them changes the game itself.

1. Digital Artbook: the setting materials and illustrations behind Eternia, in their words.
2. Digital Soundtrack: all 109 in-game tracks, the background music that plays through the game, as a digital album.
3. Battle BGM Pack: lets you replace the standard battle music with BGM from earlier Tales games.
4. Super Growth Support Item Set: consumable support items that raise character parameters.

That list is Bandai Namco’s own, published with the launch announcement on Steam and repeated on the Nintendo eShop listing for the Deluxe. Three of the four are reference and music. The fourth is the stat pack, and the stores also sell those support items on their own.

Can you upgrade after buying the Standard?

On Steam, PlayStation and Xbox, yes. The Deluxe content is sold separately as a Deluxe Upgrade Pack for $24.99: the Steam DLC, plus a matching add-on on the PlayStation Store and the Xbox Store. A Standard owner can add the artbook, soundtrack, battle music and support-item set without buying the game twice.

Nintendo’s eShop does not carry that pack. It sells the pieces individually instead, including the Lv. Up+5 and Lv. Up+10 support item sets, so on Switch you are assembling the Deluxe one piece at a time. The support items start at $1.99 each.

What each store charges

Prices checked on November 6, 2026. The remaster launched worldwide on October 16, 2026, and Japan got it a day earlier on October 15; our launch report has the release details, and the game has its own page on our site. It sits on our release calendar and in every game releasing in October 2026.

Is there a physical copy?

Not for the western release. Bandai Namco’s official game page lists the digital platforms only, and none of the four storefronts above has a disc edition on sale. Bandai Namco did put a retail package out in Japan, and our launch report covers the Japanese release and its pricing.

Is it on Game Pass or PS Plus?

No announcement, and no subscription trial on the store pages. Bandai Namco’s launch announcement and the official game page put the remaster on no subscription service, and the PlayStation and Xbox listings carry no Game Pass or PS Plus offer. As of our price check, the plan is to buy it outright, and at $29.99 the Standard is the cheap way into a JRPG that has not had a modern release before now.

Which one should you buy?

• Most players: the $29.99 Standard. It is the whole game, and the four Deluxe extras are reference art, music and consumable stat boosts.
• Longtime Tales players: the $49.99 Deluxe. The 109-track soundtrack and the Battle BGM Pack are the parts you will still be using long after the credits.
• Players who just want to level faster: skip the Deluxe and buy the support items. Support items are the consumables this JRPG uses for stat boosts, sold on their own from $1.99. They are the only part of the Deluxe that touches the game.
• Players coming to it fresh: the Graphics Mode and SFX Mode toggles let you switch between the remastered look and the original presentation, and the Standard gives you both.

Bandai Namco priced the Deluxe like a bundle and sold it like a soundtrack. We compared the four items on the PlayStation Store edition list with the individual items the stores sell on their own. Three of the four are extras, not features. The fourth is a stat pack available for a fraction of the $20 gap, which makes the Deluxe easy to skip for almost every buyer and makes the $24.99 upgrade pack the smarter choice for anyone still undecided. The remaster is also still in its launch window: Bandai Namco is collecting player feedback through November 12, and the November 2 update is an early patch the original 2001 release never needed.

Prices and edition contents in this guide were checked on the stores themselves on November 6, 2026.

Edited by Kerwin Stewart, Editor-in-Chief · How we report