Aarklash: Legacy
Skip · Strategy · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $15.99.
- Length
- 13.2h
- Value
- $1.21/hr
- Reviews
- 73% positive
Watch this gameOne email when it is worth buying. Your call on what that means.
Get one email when Aarklash: Legacy is worth buying.
One email per game. Unsubscribe in a click.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
In Aarklash: Legacy take command of a mercenary squad in search of truth and guide it through countless battles.Welcome to Aarklash, a land of chaos where incessant battles between the forces of Light, Destiny and Darkness have lasted since the beginning of time.
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 $1.59, set in June 2018. Its cuts run 85 percent off as a rule. There have been 24 in the 13 years tracked, about 11 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 42 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition ($7.49, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Blackguards ($9.99, scores 11).
Steam's global achievement data says about 9 percent of players ever finish it. On a 13.2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see.
Finishing takes 13.2 hours; clearing it takes 34, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
59% start to 9% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 13.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
When it comes to the now infamous Confrontation IP story has often been sparse. The games have been fun to play, but story has never been at the forefront. This games changes that trend in a good way. Sadly I can't play this game anymore as I'm running a later edition of windows, but when I could play I did it often, and never regretted the time I spent praying my whole party would die with each new fight...
I've had this game for a pretty long time, but never finished it until today. I'll start off with what I didn't like about it and then move on to what I did and then my final thoughts at the end. A couple of my gripes: MAJOR - The puzzles. ♥♥♥ the puzzles. A game like this does not need this many. Act 2-3 especially were absolutely flooded with them. I don't remember if Act 1 had many because when I started playing...
Ohhh boy. I fell for it because I love the Confrontation liscence, and used to be a Rakham fanboy in my teens. But this game does not give the setting justice. Gameplay is uninspired and repetitive, graphics are passable at best. THere is better stuff out there to sink some hours into.
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.
Cite this score
Embed the live badge, copy the line, or download the card.
Aarklash: Legacy scores 33/100 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/222640/aarklash-legacyThe 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.
A number here look wrong? Tell me what it got wrong and I will look at the inputs behind it.