Lovely Planet
Worth it · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99.
- Length
- 4.2h
- Value
- $1.43/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 512 MB, Shader Model 2.0, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A First Person Shooter Gun Ballet set in a cutesy abstract world. Jump and shoot your way through five worlds full of treacherous enemies with your trusty semi-automatic!
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 $0.89, set in April 2020. It has been discounted 101 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Turbo Overkill ($5.99, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats DeadCore ($9.99, scores 58).
61 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 341 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 632 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 46 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 4.2 hours; clearing it takes 16, which is 3.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
27% 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
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.
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Lovely Planet scores 77/100 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/298600/lovely-planetThe 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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