Stranded
Skip · Narrative · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $0.49.
- Length
- 0.7h
- Value
- $0.70/hr
- Reviews
- 38% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A minimal point and click adventure, designed to take the player on a short but memorable journey.
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
The lowest price on record is $0.49, set in May 2019. It has been discounted 86 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 51 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $0.49 at 51 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is cheaper than 92 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. On the same math Home ($4.99, scores 16) and Tacoma ($2.99, scores 73) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 263 reviews written there were positive, against 38 percent overall, and those are 79 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 0.7 hours. Doing everything runs 2, 2.4 times as long.
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Stranded scores 0/100 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/295250/strandedThe 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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