PlanetSide 2
Fair · Multiplayer · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Length
- 27.2h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 55% over the last 30 days against 80% all-time.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 or better, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
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
Against its own genre it lands in the top 10 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, MechWarrior Online™ Legends (free, scores 54) and Black Squad (free, scores 44), are both worse buys on this math.
Players rate it 80 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 55 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 133 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 27.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 6371, 234 times as much.
It is still busy. 496 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
Players
496 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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PlanetSide 2 scores 56/100 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/218230/planetside-2The 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 3.
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