Cut to the Core
Worth it · Short indie · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 3.2h
- Value
- $0.93/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 11 capable GPU, 7 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
How much of someone can you cut away before there's nothing left? Find out in this chilling kinetic visual novel - IF YOU DARE!
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 $1.01. That was December 2025. 21 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 8 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 8 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Fran Bow ($14.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Bad Dream: Coma ($2.24, scores 71).
Steam's global achievement data puts 47 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8.
The drop-off
64% start to 47% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
1 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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Cut to the Core scores 80/100 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/1777000/cut-to-the-coreThe 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 1, price as of Sep 23.
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