Super Time Force Ultra
Fair · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.5h
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Super Time Force Ultra is an insane platformer filled with robots and dinosaurs and fun and time travel... sometimes all at the same time!
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
August 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.04. 58 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 10 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 25 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio ($0.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Blazing Chrome ($16.99, scores 47).
80 from critics against 89 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 125 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
4.5 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.4 times the campaign.
At 4.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
58% start to 2% 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
What players say
Unique, innovative, and fun. Only until after the game did I realize that the game's title made an acronym.
I really don't get why this game didn't become a hit in the indie world. It has a cool idea of time travel that isn't just rewinding. It creates alternate versions of the player cumulating the efforts. So if you kill 10 enemies and grab 3 collectibles, rewind the ghost version of the past you (like one in racing games) will again kill those enemies and grab those collectibles. In that time you can choose a different...
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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Super Time Force Ultra scores 59/100 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/250700/super-time-force-ultraThe 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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