A Game of Dwarves
Skip · Strategy · 2012
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 35h
- Value
- $0.29/hr
- Reviews
- 63% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Shader Model 4.0 compatible card (minimum Nvidia GeForce 8000, AMD Radeon 2000), 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
A Dwarven Prince on a quest to reclaim his people’s stolen land will take you on a great journey. Explore a continent filled with buried treasures and unearth mysteries that have laid hidden since the Great War.
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 $1.99. That was October 2014. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 100 in the 14 years tracked, about 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 70 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 88 percent. Craft The World ($18.99, scores 77) outscores it, and so does Kingdom: Classic (free, scores 81). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Steam's global achievement data says about 17 percent of players ever finish it. On a 35-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see.
The drop-off
73% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. 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.
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A Game of Dwarves scores 15/100 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/200370/a-game-of-dwarvesThe 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, price as of Sep 24.
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