Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement
Skip · Narrative · 2012
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 1.4h
- Value
- $3.56/hr
- Reviews
- 64% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB graphics card, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
The original puzzle adventure game based on twisted William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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 $0.49, set in March 2015. 93 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 85 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
It is less well reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. Little Inferno ($14.99, scores 67) outscores it, and so does Pilgrims ($6.99, scores 68). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 196 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 57 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
I don't think this game can really be called "good" but there is something very charming about it. The graphics and artstyle are unironically very good and clearly had some work put into them, but it's less than 90 minutes long with zero replay value so keep that in mind when deciding if you want to buy it or not. The puzzles are also usually nonsensical, but it feels kinda intentional almost, as if a lot of it is...
Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement is one of those titles that announces its intentions before the player even presses Start. Developed and published by Denis Galanin, also known as mif2000, it enters the modern gaming landscape not by trying to compete with technical spectacle or elaborate systems, but by deliberately rejecting them. It feels like a response to the...
Hamlet whispers that no shaders mean purity. I'm a happy hostage of its silence and bugs with no save.
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement scores 12/100 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/222160/hamlet-or-the-last-game-without-mmorpg-features-shaders-and-product-placementThe 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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