Battlepaths
Skip · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $2.99.
- Length
- 8.3h
- Value
- $0.36/hr
- Reviews
- 69% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Direct3D support, 174 MB of storage. Windows only.
Battlepaths is a minimalist, loot-driven old-school 2D RPG featuring neat monster hacking, an excellent loot system, and great variety in character development.
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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
February 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $0.38. Its cuts run 83 percent off as a rule. There have been 82 in the 12 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 40 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is cheaper than 83 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon Cliff ($9.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Halfway ($12.99, scores 24).
8.3 hours to finish it, 44 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
14% start to 3% 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
Thought it was strategy turned out it's chess with swords and medieval rap battles. My soldiers just asked for a raise and a nap.
I bought this game for 49 cents nearly 9 years ago, and I'm finally here to leave my review. My first time picking this up, I didn't get past the first world but I did have some fun as I learned the game mechanics. It has a classic "Flash in the browser game" feel to it. So, when I had first checked it out -- I really liked the song that plays when you are in the village, it kind of reminds me of the Diablo 2...
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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Battlepaths scores 25/100 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/296050/battlepathsThe 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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