Blocks That Matter
Fair · Strategy · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.8h
- Value
- $0.86/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL compatible 128Mo VRAM, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
When indie game developers Alexey and Markus are in trouble, their only hope comes from their creation.
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
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was March 2013. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 47 in the 14 years tracked, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 70 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack ($9.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Bloody Trapland ($4.99, scores 51).
Steam's global achievement data says about 7 percent of players ever finish it. On a 5.8-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 103 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
5.8 hours to finish it, 22 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
77% start to 7% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 5.8-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
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Blocks That Matter scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/111800/blocks-that-matterThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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