Ionball 2: Ionstorm
Skip · Action · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 4.2h
- Value
- $1.19/hr
- Reviews
- 68% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Graphics card supporting DirectX 9.0c and Shader Model 3.0, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
IonBall 2: Ionstorm is an arcade game with a modern 3D twist; re-live the joys and frustrations (in equal measure) of classics games such as Breakout and Arkanoid, in a no holds barred fast action game with stunning 3D environments, awesome effects and a thumping soundtrack.
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 $0.49. That was October 2015. 45 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 90 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
It is less well reviewed than 78 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Polyball ($3.99, scores 26) and 8BitBoy™ ($6.99, scores 35) both outscore it.
The drop-off
12% 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
What players say
Bug means you can only play levels 1-9. After that there is a bug that prevents other levels from unlocking, making this pretty much a huge rip-off. So very, very sad. This title should honestly be delisted, it's a scam, pretty much.
Flashy 3D Arkanoid clone with frustrating physics, overwhelming visuals and poor mouse control
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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Ionball 2: Ionstorm scores 23/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/287120/ionball-2-ionstormThe 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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