Dark Scavenger
Fair · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $1.22/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.49. That was February 2018. It has been discounted 68 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 67 percent off, with about 4 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Henry Stickmin Collection ($14.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Plebby Quest: The Crusades ($19.99, scores 46).
At 4.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Dark Scavenger scores 66/100 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/293880/dark-scavengerThe 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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