Shatter
BANGER · Action · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.99.
- Length
- 2.9h
- Value
- $0.69/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Shatter is a retro-inspired brick-breaking game that merges familiar action with unique twists and a modern crafted production approach.
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
The lowest price on record is $0.49, set in December 2019. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 45 in the 14 years tracked, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Just Shapes & Beats ($19.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats The Bug Butcher ($7.99, scores 60).
The math says it holds its tier up to $5.24, and you are being asked for $1.99.
84 from critics against 93 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 12 percent of players ever finish it. On a 2.9-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 192 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
86% start to 12% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Shatter is a fun game, can be challenging at times but very well designed. Great OST and solid sound design. The game play is just like shown in the trailer. The controls are responsive and really compliment the fast game play. I can recommend this version (didn't play the remaster) without pause. Great and fun game.
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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Shatter scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/20820/shatterThe 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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