Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition
Skip · Roguelike · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Reviews
- 68% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel GMA 950 or AMD Equivalent with OpenGL 1.2 Support, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Paranautical Activity combines the classic FPS action of games like Doom and Quake, with the randomness and difficulty of modern roguelikes like Binding of Isaac and Spelunky.
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
June 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 55 in the 13 years tracked, about 4 weeks apart.
It is less well reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. Eldritch ($14.99, scores 67) outscores it, and so does BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE ($19.99, scores 76). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 250 reviews written there were positive, against 68 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
39% start to 1% 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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition scores 21/100 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/250580/paranautical-activity-deluxe-atonement-editionThe 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 Aug 29.
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