Melody's Escape
Worth it · Short indie · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $3.98.
- Length
- 4.3h
- Value
- $2.32/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD3000. DirectX 9.0c compatible with shader Model 2.0 support, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Run, jump and slide to the rhythm of your own music library! In Melody's Escape, advanced audio detection algorithms transcribe the energy that you feel when listening to music into a synchronized gameplay experience, with a captivating and dynamic obstacle course.
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
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was March 2018. It has been discounted 99 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 66 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $3.98, a level the record has reached 65 times.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Geometry Dash ($4.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Incredibox ($4.99, scores 64).
Of the 358 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 1,298 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.3 hours. Doing everything runs 10, 2.4 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
90% start to 4% 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.
What players say
So much fun to play while listening to your favorite songs. The barriers are setup more or less precisely where they should be. Not sure if it's because I uploaded FLAC files.
fun enough little game. definitely not perfect at detecting beats and putting buttons on them. probably also not worth 13 bucks but it's not a terrible way to kill a little bit of time.
quite literally the best game for music enthusiasts like myself. i could easily indulge in it for hours on end. i'm obsessed ♡
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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Melody's Escape scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/270210/melody-s-escapeThe 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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