The Council
Fair · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Length
- 14.3h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB, GeForce GTX 750/Radeon R7 360, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Back to the Dawn ($23.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Call of Cthulhu® ($19.99, scores 44).
67 from critics against 84 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 214 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
It is still busy. 10 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
The drop-off
62% start to 12% 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
Players
10 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Giant plot twist in the middle of the game is the main reason of negative reviews, but it didn't highly affect story to my surprise. Pros + XP, skill-based mechanic in a combo of dialogue-based game works awesome and deeply integrated + really high variety of story + memorable characters + pretty visuals + puzzles are difficult enough, it was really interesting to solve them + location exploration is rewardable +...
Одна из самых недооценённых игр в жанре интерактивного кино, на мой субъективный взгляд, конечно. Хотя зря они повесили на стену картину Франсиско Гойи.
Abyssmal performance and horrendously over the top exaggerated character art style paired with sub par voice acting and an unfulfilling progression/story. Quite bad, would not recommend to most people if anyone.
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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The Council scores 62/100 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/287630/the-councilThe 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.
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