Apex Legends™
Skip · Multiplayer · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 33.1h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 68% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 7790 (2 GB), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950, 75 GB of storage. Windows only.
Apex Legends is the award-winning, free-to-play Hero Shooter from Respawn Entertainment. Master an ever-growing roster of legendary characters with powerful abilities, and experience strategic squad play and innovative gameplay in the next evolution of Hero Shooter and Battle Royale.
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 is less well reviewed than 70 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Pixel Strike 3D (free, scores 34) beats it on value, while it beats Battle Teams 2 (free, scores 1).
Critics scored it 88, but players land 20 points lower at 68 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 33.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 153, 4.6 times as much.
It came out 6 years ago and 124.3K were still playing it at the last check.
It is still busy. 124.3K players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking. Free to start. Steam lists the aggressive monetization types on it: boost and cosmetic.
2 players here own this. Their libraries average 65 BANG. See the leaderboard →
The drop-off
47% start to 15% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
124K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Cite this score
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Apex Legends™ scores 19/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1172470/apex-legendsThe 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 10.
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