And Yet It Moves
Skip · Action · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 3h
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 70% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 61 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer, set in a unique world, made of ripped paper. Within the paper-collage you can jump, run and last but certainly not least: rotate the world. Learn how to apply the physical consequences of rotation to master the many tricky situations you may encounter.
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 June 2015. 69 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 70 percent. On the same math Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians ($9.99, scores 37) and Type:Rider ($4.99, scores 48) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Steam's global achievement data says about 9 percent of players ever finish it. On a 3-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
3 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
61% start to 9% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
(DO NOT 100% THIS GAME, YOU WILL NOT ENJOY IT, JUST DO A CASUAL PLAYTHROUGH.) There is so much I want to say about this game, but then my review willl be too long. I will try to keep this brief. I have a love-hate relationship with And Yet It Moves. I'll start with the good parts. The artstyle of this game is timeless, and is the one part of the game that doesn't feel dated. If you ever wanted to play an Eric Carle...
I've always wanted to play this ever since I played the demo of AYIM on the Wii over and over again as a kid. Very cool puzzle platformer with lots of personality !! The gameplay and flipping mechanics are fun, the music can range from chill to mysterious to funky, the paper aesthetic of this game is very charming and unique, and I just generally love the whole vibe of this game. The ONLY thing I wish this game had...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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And Yet It Moves scores 25/100 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/18700/and-yet-it-movesThe 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 3, price as of Sep 24.
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