Megabyte Punch
Fair · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.5h
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 MB Video Memory, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Megabyte Punch is a fighting/beat ‘em up game in which you build your own fighter! As you travel through different environments, you battle other creatures to get their parts. Parts have their own powers and bonuses, like gun arms for a shoot ability or powerful hips for a devastating pelvic thrust attack.
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 $2.24. That was November 2015. 57 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 66 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Shank ($9.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) ($14.99, scores 46).
Critics scored it 69. Players sit 21 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
The main story runs 7.5 hours. Doing everything runs 20, 2.6 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
51% start to 7% 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
played it with a friend about 8 years ago or so. today I bought the game. we beat it again. it's an amazing game, nothing more to say.
Incredibly good game. Kind of like smash bros with robots and customizable parts. I'm suprised that this isn't much more popular. 8/10
Like a Smash Bros with customisable movesets and just a slight hint of Lethal League.
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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Megabyte Punch scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/248550/megabyte-punchThe 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 1, price as of Sep 24.
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