Skyborn
Fair · RPG · 2014
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.2h
- Value
- $1.83/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 1024x768 or better video resolution in High Color mode, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Life under the iron rule of the winged Skyborn race isn’t so bad for Claret Spencer, the star mechanic of a successful airship repair shop, present her with broken machinery and she’s sure to fix it. She’s one of the fortunate ones, not all who live under the watchful eye of the Skyborn are so lucky…Little does she know that her stable,...
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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
It has never been cheaper than $2.24. That was June 2022. It has been discounted 69 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga ($19.99, scores 91) outscores it, and so does Grimm's Hollow (free, scores 93). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
The drop-off
16% start to 2% 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
What players say
This game, in short, feel very unbalanced. The enemy you encountered (non-boss) can deal desvastating attack, to the point of killing your tank in one go, and yet, the healer can't even heal 1/5 of the health of the tank (and slowly deteriorate to a point where the heal only did 1/10 or even 1/20 of the tank health). Oh, and there's only 1 cure, there's no upgraded version. Now, maybe you will think that, "If that's...
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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Skyborn scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/278460/skybornThe 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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