Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink
Fair · Narrative · 2014
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
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- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB VRAM, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Unburied secrets burn like wild steam – nothing is what it appears!
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. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in September 2015. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 98 in the 12 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 16 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan ($14.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden ($14.99, scores 50).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 16 percent of players at this game's ending achievement.
The drop-off
61% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
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Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/284830/clockwork-tales-of-glass-and-inkThe 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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