Cosmic DJ
Worth it · Short indie · 2014
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 1.1h
- Value
- $2.72/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cosmic DJ is a quick, "pick-up and play" musical experience about the joy of music creation for budding intergalactic musicians of all skill levels. Set among the stars, you will strive to become the legendary Cosmic DJ through six musical adventures as you’re tasked with repairing the all-important “Jamtennas” and bring...
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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
It has never been cheaper than $0.44. That was August 2015. 74 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 15 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Trombone Champ ($14.99, scores 66) and Incredibox ($4.99, scores 64) both come in lower.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 557 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 73 percent of everything written about it.
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Cosmic DJ scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/297110/cosmic-djThe 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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