Symphony
Fair · Shooter · 2012
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, MB, DirectX 9.0c-compatible, Shader Model 3.0 or higher, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A mysterious entity is absorbing and corrupting your music before your very eyes. You must battle through your own song collection and fight to reclaim your music!
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.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in September 2023. 25 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 20 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 30 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Beat Hazard ($9.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien ($14.99, scores 54).
Critics scored it 75. Players sit 9 points higher at 84 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 173 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
85% start to 5% finishMost players never reach the end. Steam global achievements
Cite this score
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Symphony scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/207750/symphonyThe 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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