Meridian: New World
Skip · Strategy · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $6.99.
- Length
- 10.5h
- Value
- $0.67/hr
- Reviews
- 48% of 529 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 880 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Slip into the role of Daniel Hanson, commander of the first mission to a remote planet called Meridian. Assured of the fact that the planet is uninhabited, the unexpected reception of a distress call from the surface could mean many things, none of which you are prepared for.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 8600 GT / ATI 2600 Pro, 829 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
87 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 126 weeks ago.
It is less well reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. On the same math Planetbase ($14.99, scores 49) and Prehistoric Kingdom ($29.99, scores 52) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Meridian: New World
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 148 reviews written there were positive, against 48 percent overall, and those are 46 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
49% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
5/10. A late '90's style Real-Time Strategy game, with a simplistic but solid foundation. What you can expect: Around 15 hours of fun, 90's RTS inspired nostalgia... and a bit of frustration, too. Beware that the variety of units, and some features of gameplay are very simplistic, so you will likely need to adjust to the limitations of such a basic system. Hints: [*] In the campaign, there is often an easy win...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
If you're a fan of RTS games, ala SC2 this game might just be for you. Is it StarCraft II??...well, no. But this game puts a few interesting spins on the RTS formula that make it really interesting and fun to play. Instead of producing a standard unit and upgrading offense/defense from an approriate facility (this game has this feature aswell for unit specific upgrades), any weapon upgrades you research for your...
Game no longer works in windows 11, fixes suggested are not a workaround. It was a good game but the devs dont seem interested in the launch issue. Some fixes tried but all failed with the same error posted. I would suggest the game is abandoned which is a shame, it was a decent rts.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Meridian: New World scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/265120/meridian-new-worldReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.