Circuits
Fair · Short indie · 2014
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Simple in concept, but very challenging and rewarding,Circuits is a puzzle game that requires careful listening to complete each level. The goal of Circuits : piece together the different parts of a song. Sounds easy, but maybe not.
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
The lowest price on record is $0.74, set in July 2014. It has been discounted 47 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 65 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FRAMED Collection ($9.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Figment ($19.99, scores 48).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 738 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
67% start to 8% finishMost players never reach the end. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Circuits scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). 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/282760/circuitsThe 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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