Prime World: Defenders
Skip · RPG · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Reviews
- 75% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 9500 GT or equal, 1.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Fight off hordes of monstrous mutants created from a strange cataclysmic event in the new tower defense game, Prime World: Defenders. Join a group of exile treasure hunters who have ventured into the capital of an ancient empire, vast with mystery and danger.
What drives the score
How to read this
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was June 2014. It has been discounted 50 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 40 percent on value. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Ratropolis ($17.99, scores 69) and Bardbarian ($7.99, scores 67) both outscore it.
The press gave it 58; the people who bought it give it 75 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 41 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8.
The drop-off
52% start to 41% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
2 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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Prime World: Defenders scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 8 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/235360/prime-world-defendersThe 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 7, price as of Sep 24.
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