Caster
Skip · Shooter · 2009
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 1.9h
- Value
- $5.26/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, 16 MB Graphics Card (GeForce 2 or better), 31 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Dash across Scenic Locations destroying bug like creatures called the Flanx using 6 Unique Attacks that include Massive Terrain Deformation and High Speed Barrages of Energy Blasts!
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 $0.14, set in March 2015. 24 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 43 percent on value. Among the games that feel like it, Orcs Must Die! 2 ($3.74, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Overture ($4.99, scores 40).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 1,962 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 59 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
If your graphics card burns out while playing this game, you won't even notice the difference in image.
For 2009 you would expect Crysis. Caster feels pretty much opposite to Crysis. Terrible and unfinished to be honest. But game have some cult following and despite being super lackluster, gameplay is done right. Overall idea is a bit like Mega Man in 3D with multiple powers, some affecting the environment, that is empty map, but you can affect terrain and navigate super fast. Considering it's pretty bad, it have some...
Very Interesting game that's for sure. Not the worst but doesn't really offer anything more.
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Caster scores 44/100 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/29800/casterThe 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 4, price as of Sep 24.
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