Wizorb
Skip · Action · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $2.99.
- Length
- 4.4h
- Value
- $0.68/hr
- Reviews
- 70% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The once peaceful Kingdom of Gorudo is threatened by an evil presence. The only hope for salvation is Cyrus!
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 $0.74. That was July 2013. 55 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 10 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 10 weeks.
It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Volgarr the Viking ($9.99, scores 56) beats it on value, while it beats Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition ($19.99, scores 26).
81 on Metacritic, 70 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
Steam's global achievement data says about 2 percent of players ever finish it. On a 4.4-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 134 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.4 hours. Doing everything runs 17, 3.8 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
37% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 4.4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. 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.
What players say
Steam has offered a lot of classic indies over the past couple of decades, giving way to some especially fantastic experiences by indie developers who otherwise would never have been given the same spotlight back in the early 2000s and before. Wizorb is one of many early indies in this regards, recreating one of Atari's most famed games from the ancient era of the 70s, this being the iconic 'Breakout' that released...
The debut from Tribute Games, who technically released this the year before (2011) as an Xbox Live Indie Game, and would go on to make quite a few retro classics over the next 15 years, including the widely acclaimed TMNT: Shredder's Revenge. They started out strong as this is a low key gem of a game, combining the old school brick breaker with the 8-bit RPG. But really it's only RPG in setting and dialogue, the...
A charming blend of brick-breaking and RPG elements, featuring nostalgic pixel art, addictive gameplay, and a whimsical story that captivates players of all ages.
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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Wizorb scores 28/100 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/207420/wizorbThe 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 6, price as of Sep 24.
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