Demonicon
Skip · RPG · 2013
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 13.2h
- Value
- $0.76/hr
- Reviews
- 67% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Dark Eye - Demonicon is a thrilling action-RPG set in the extraordinarily popular universe of “The Dark Eye”, a richly crafted fantasy world beloved by fantasy gamers across the globe.The Dark Eye - Demonicon tells the tragic story of a brother and sister who become pawns of sinister forces in a world of cruelty and depravity.
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How to read this
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The value story
October 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 78 in the 13 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 80 percent. Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition ($29.99, scores 49) outscores it, and so does Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden ($49.99, scores 55). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
13.2 hours to finish it, 39 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
59% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
A decent RPG with few minor flaws Pros Cons 🎮 Gameplay: Gameplay is smooth and functional with combination of melee, magic, dodging, parry, range options. The simple RPG mechanics of leveling Skills, Attributes, and Magic make the game pretty enjoyable, however, the options to level Magic skills are severely limited since the points received is very little. ❌ The game suffer mainly due to its Technical issue such...
An older, janky, yet pretty atmospheric game. Sadly, for every thing this game does okay, there's another, often absolutely jarring technicality that brings it down. See them below. I can't recommend it. Pros [*]Passable story. [*]Conversations are alright. [*]Das Schwarze Auge system is cool. [*]The extent of exploration leaves more to be desired, but it does happen, and the atmosphere is really nice. [*]Combat is...
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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Demonicon scores 23/100 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/215630/demoniconThe 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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