Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition
Skip · Multiplayer · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 19.9h
- Value
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews
- 70% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.0 compliant video card, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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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 $5.99, set in June 2019. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 32 in the 13 years tracked, about 12 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Timespinner ($19.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Edge of Space ($14.99, scores 0).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 164 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 19.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 53, 2.7 times as much.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
28% start to 4% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 19.9-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
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Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition scores 26/100 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/218820/mercenary-kings-reloaded-editionThe 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 Jul 30, price as of Sep 22.
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