EverQuest

EverQuest

Fair · Multiplayer · 2012

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.

Length
530.1h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
79% positive
Length
530.1h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
Free
Reviews
79%
2,696 reviews, as of Aug 1
Players
750K
owners (estimate)
Released
2012

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.

Welcome to EverQuest® - the original fantasy MMORPG. Explore huge worlds, fight challenging foes, and grow your character with friends. Discover why players have quested, grouped, and raided in Norrath for more than two decades.
Description from the Steam store page.

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.

Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. Nothing is docked
Holding it back
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach750K+ players
How many own it, a popularity + confidence signal
DRMDaybreak account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
Length530 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies

The value story

On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 81 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, EverQuest II (free, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeons & Dragons Online® (free, scores 28).

It is still busy. 456 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.

Players

456 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), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

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EverQuest scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/205710/everquest
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The 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.

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Tags

Details

DeveloperDarkpaw Games
PublisherDaybreak Game Company
GenreMultiplayer
Released2012