Loot Hero DX
Skip · Roguelike · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $2.99.
- Length
- 0.4h
- Value
- $7.48/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
A legendary Dragon is haunting the lands. Towns are set ablaze, and its magic power resurrects the evil creatures of the world. A hero is needed to travel to the corners of the lands and slay the beast to restore peace.
What drives the score
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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 $0.44, set in April 2023. 113 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is cheaper than 91 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Vampire Survivors ($4.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Tap Heroes ($2.99, scores 33).
HowLongToBeat players log 0.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 3, 8.0 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 0.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
19% start to 9% 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
Getting the "Reach character lvl 100" achievement requires you to either a) ACTIVELY move left and right for another ~3 hours (while completing the game took ~1.5h!), or b) super actively wait through countless painfully slow loading screens and actively scroll through stage selections (with buttons that are slow to react) to hit higher levels where you get slightly more xp in hope to complete the achievement in...
It was a fun, simple game at the start, but the grindy achievements just make It a snoozefest.
Started with a stick ended with a pirate chest on my back - now my socks are gold and I sleep on coins.
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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Loot Hero DX scores 35/100 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/294040/loot-hero-dxThe 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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