Dream Pinball 3D
Skip · Strategy · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 0.9h
- Value
- $11.10/hr
- Reviews
- 45% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Shader 1.3 graphics card with 128 MB, 901 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
FINGER-FLIPPIN’, POWERFUL PINBALL!No room for a pinball machine? So what! With DREAM PINBALL 3D you can transform your PC or console into 6 different, multilevel, 3D pinball machines! Clever gameplay, plus balls made of different materials – and each material has special ballistic properties that affect how those balls roll!
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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 $0.69, set in September 2014. 110 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Business Tour - Board Game with Online Multiplayer(大富翁) (free, scores 5) beats it on value, while it beats On The Road - The Truck Simulator ($11.99, scores 0).
61 on Metacritic, 45 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 26 percent of the 300 reviews written there were positive, against 45 percent overall, and those are 83 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 0.9 hours. Doing everything runs 2, 2.0 times as long.
Players
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Dream Pinball 3D scores 2/100 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/215790/dream-pinball-3dThe 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 1, price as of Sep 24.
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