NGU IDLE
Worth it · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it at free.
- Length
- 1407.2h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Probably everything works, even integrated ( but you might have slideshow FPS), 154 MB of storage. Windows only.
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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, Soda Dungeon 2 (free, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Clicker Heroes (free, scores 70).
Steam's global achievement data says about 3 percent of players ever finish it. On a 1407.2-hour game, that is a lot of evenings most people never spend.
Finishing takes 1407.2 hours; clearing it takes 6760, which is 4.8 times the campaign.
It came out 7 years ago and 3.4K were still playing it at the last check.
It is still busy. 3.4K players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking. Free to start. It takes its money later, through boost and cosmetic.
The drop-off
69% start to 3% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 1407.2-hour game, that's a lot of time most people never put in. Steam global achievements
Players
3,382 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).
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NGU IDLE scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1147690/ngu-idleThe 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.
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