I Wanna Maker
BANGER · Short indie · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
A BANGER, and it costs nothing.
- Length
- 8.3h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
I Wanna Maker is a precision platformer with a robust level editor and online level sharing, based on I Wanna Be The Guy fangames. Create complex levels using a variety of objects, a powerful events system, and customizable visuals. Browse levels online, take on challenge modes, and more!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Geometry Dash ($4.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats DDNet (free, scores 74).
Steam's global achievement data says about 2 percent of players ever finish it. On an 8.3-hour game, that is a lot of evenings most people never spend.
It is still busy. 54 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
The drop-off
35% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. On an 8.3-hour game, that's a lot of time most people never put in. Steam global achievements
Players
54 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
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I Wanna Maker scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1114940/i-wanna-makerThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 18.
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