Starseed Pilgrim
Skip · Narrative · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $5.99.
- Length
- 15.4h
- Value
- $0.39/hr
- Reviews
- 61% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Starseed Pilgrim is a game about tending a symphonic garden, exploring space, and embracing fate.You are a gardener, tending to empty noise and empty space to fill them both with colour.You are a refugee, building your own world away from the spreading darkness.You are an explorer, discovering new places, new rules, and new fascinations.
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
It has never been cheaper than $2.69. That was July 2013. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 20 in the 13 years tracked, about 21 weeks apart.
It is less well reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, NaissanceE (free, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats gravilon ($2.99, scores 5).
83 on Metacritic, 61 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
What players say
Love this game. Learning how it works and discovering new things was so much fun. It has a charming package. Great little personal adventure. So creative. Fun amount of challenge. If you want to buy it expect a slow start learning how to use the building mechanic and its different blocks, then learning what the purpose of the game is. There is more than you expect here. Don't look up anything, no purpose playing if...
Pretentious, boring, and bad. There's apparently some hidden mechanics that give you a couple more hours of "gameplay". I have no desire to discover them. ick.
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: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Starseed Pilgrim scores 9/100 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/230980/starseed-pilgrimThe 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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