Alpha Prime
Skip · Shooter · 2007
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 5.1h
- Value
- $0.98/hr
- Reviews
- 55% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX compatible 128 MB graphics card, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Somewhere in deep space, at an apparently abandoned mining base on the asteriod Alpha Prime, something has gone terribly wrong. Miners were warned that the hubbardium they were mining was too dangerous, but the lure of unimaginable wealth was too strong.
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.49. That was February 2014. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 92 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. On the same math Alien Rage - Unlimited ($19.99, scores 15) and Trepang2 ($29.99, scores 56) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Of the 272 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 316 reviews written there were positive, against 55 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
HOW IN THE H E DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS IS ALPHA PRIME THIS GOOD??? this is not even some hidden 10/10 masterpiece that everybody unfairly ignored. this is a completely normal, borderline mediocre 6/10 sci-fi fps from 2007. the enemy ai sometimes runs directly into gunfire like it has somewhere important to be, the voice acting sounds like everybody recorded their lines at 3:00 in the morning, and the story is delivered...
best old school hardcore shooter! robots have autoaim and if u fall from 2 m u losing half hp, if u shoot basketball in 1st location if it bounce on u, u lose 51 hp. Every fight feels like last, cause enemies also have autoaim and dont miss! no ammos, 1 or 2 hp potions through lvl and if u failed , no autosave start from begining! true hardcore !
Alpha Prime, developed by Black Element and published by Bohemia Interactive, is a sci-fi first-person shooter that reflects a transitional moment in the genre-caught between classic corridor shooters and more experimental, system-driven designs. Released in the mid-2000s, it attempts to layer narrative intrigue and light mechanics like hacking and time manipulation onto a traditional FPS foundation. The result is a...
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Alpha Prime scores 2/100 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/2590/alpha-primeThe 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 3, price as of Sep 24.
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