Vertiginous Golf
Skip · Short indie · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Reviews
- 57% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 512MB graphics card, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Vertiginous Golf is a dystopian steam punk mini golf adventure game set in the skies above an alternate world where life on the ground is enveloped in permanent smog, constant darkness and never-ending rain.
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.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Short indie game (about 4 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was July 2018. It has been discounted 108 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. 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 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Golf With Your Friends ($14.99, scores 73) and Golf It! ($4.49, scores 80) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement.
The drop-off
49% start to 4% finishMost players never reach the end. Steam global achievements
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Vertiginous Golf scores 3/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 4 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/272890/vertiginous-golfThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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