DubWars
Skip · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 3h
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics (512), 256 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
DubWars is a music game that combines the mechanics of a top-down shooter with the power of Dubstep and Electronic music. Your weapons are synced to the music creating times of intense weapon load outs and calm moments where your survival skills are tested.
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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
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in November 2018. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 19 in the 12 years tracked, about 12 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 48 percent on value. On the same math Symphony ($4.99, scores 55) and Beat Hazard ($9.99, scores 93) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
38% 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
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DubWars scores 40/100 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/290000/dubwarsThe 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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