Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut
Fair · RPG · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $2.44/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Any with hardware 3D acceleration, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
In this original and adult psychological survival horror, the masked protagonist must escape from a city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary.
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The value story
April 2013 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. 30 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit ($19.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats They Breathe ($1.99, scores 57).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 217 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 4.1 hours; clearing it takes 11, which is 2.7 times the campaign.
What players say
Fell in love with atmosphere and scares, but survival mechanics was too punishing. It felt like I beat a half of the game, but I've just barely got everything for a working stove. Main issue was a map. It's disorienting and game doesen't gave me enought shortcuts in my poinion so I need to do alot of backtracking with a map like that. I've just dropped it after I've reach a basement, because suffering throught...
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Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut scores 61/100 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/209830/lone-survivor-the-director-s-cutThe 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 22.
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