Bionic Dues
Skip · Roguelike · 2013
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 9.4h
- Value
- $1.06/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Screen resolution at least 720px high, and 1024px wide., 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based roguelite with mech customization. Out-think wide-ranging tactical situations featuring robots with bad GPS, terrible aim, insecurity, a lack of focus, a tendency to backstab, and dozens of other maladies to exploit.
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 $1.49, set in June 2017. 107 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is less well reviewed than 62 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Into the Breach ($14.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Popup Dungeon ($24.99, scores 35).
HowLongToBeat players log 9.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 19, 2.0 times as much.
The drop-off
17% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. 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.
What players say
After many years, I keep coming back to this game. Well designed mechanisms. Now I finished my ironman expert run with random Exos, I ended up with a worksheet that calculates the total damage of overload before an enemy can come around the corner . I like the options to self-impose handicaps to customize my challenge while keeping the fun part. On high difficulty random expo, no single strategy wins you the game...
I was first introduced to Arcen games through the AI War franchise, so that was the one that I've experienced for the first time. And as fascinated as I was with the setting, I've heard that Arcen games had more games that were based on the same universe as AI War, an "Arcen-verse" if you will. Since I was curious about the whole universe, I've decided to go through the games. So Bionic Dues is set on one of the...
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.
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Bionic Dues scores 40/100 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/238910/bionic-duesThe 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 20, price as of Sep 24.
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