Lifeless Planet Premier Edition
Skip · Action · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $1.49.
- Length
- 4.7h
- Value
- $0.32/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1.5 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 or ATI equivalent, 901 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
PREMIER EDITION - While seeking life on a distant planet, an astronaut discovers an abandoned Russian town. He suspects his mission is a hoax until a mysterious young woman saves him from a strange and deadly phenomenon...
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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
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. 98 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 66 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $1.49 at 85 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 42. The current cut is what makes it a 49.
On value it sits in the top 14 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Swapper ($14.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats The Station ($14.99, scores 46).
Steam's global achievement data says about 15 percent of players ever finish it. On a 4.7-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. None of the 435 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 290 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
72% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
This game is GREAT !!! Not just good... It's phenomenal. But not everybody can appreciate it. It really depends on whether you prioritize atmosphere in your gaming experience, or at least if atmosphere can be enough to let you enjoy otherwise not-so exciting gameplay.
Pretty cool. Quite fond of the "old-school graphics" and the overall scenery. The gameplay mechanics are... Simple? And tbh, the Geyser jump mechanic is complicated to get a grasp on (or I'm just bad at timing my jumps, lmao). Btw, even for a 2014 game, the framerate decreases noticeably in some places, but this does not make the game unplayable. ...In all my wisdom, I thought my toaster could flawlessly withstand...
This game is great, an adventure that allows you a lot of freedom to roam. I'd recommend it to anyone who is looking to enjoy a journey through an alien landscape that isn't complicated but still challenging.
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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Lifeless Planet Premier Edition scores 49/100 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/261530/lifeless-planet-premier-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 Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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