Miasmata
Skip · Action · 2012
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVidia Geforce 8600GT, ATI Radeon 3670HD or equivalent, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Miasmata is a first-person survival/adventure game, developed from the ground-up by brothers Joe and Bob Johnson. You play as Robert Hughes, a plague-stricken scientist on a journey to discover a cure. Your adventure begins on the shores of a remote and mysterious island.
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.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.24, set in December 2017. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 85 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 24 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 45 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. On the same math Salt ($14.99, scores 33) and Breathedge ($24.99, scores 53) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. This site sampled 218 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 235 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
48% start to 1% finishMost players never reach the end. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Miasmata scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/223510/miasmataThe 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 2, price as of Sep 24.
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