Lost Ark
Skip · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 56.6h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 70% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 51% over the last 30 days against 70% all-time.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 560, 110 GB of storage. Windows only.
Embark on an odyssey for the Lost Ark in a vast, vibrant world: explore new lands, seek out lost treasures, and test yourself in thrilling action combat in this action-packed free-to-play RPG.
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 69 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Path of Exile (free, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Vindictus (free, scores 19).
Players rate it 70 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 51 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 557 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 1 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 56.6 hours; clearing it takes 668, which is 12 times the campaign.
Still 17.4K concurrent players, 4 years in.
It is still busy. 17.4K players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
The drop-off
86% start to <1% 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
17.4K 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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Lost Ark scores 27/100 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/1599340/lost-arkThe 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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