Trove
Fair · Multiplayer · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Length
- 51.7h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 61% over the last 30 days against 80% all-time.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000 or better, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Grab your friends, hone your blades, and set off for an epic procedurally generated adventure in Trove! Battle the Shadow in realms filled with dungeons and items created by your fellow players. Whether hunting treasure or building realms of your own, it’s never been this good to be square!
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
On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 83 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, RPG MO (free, scores 48) and Villagers and Heroes (free, scores 8) both come in lower.
Players rate it 80 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 61 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 152 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 51.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 945, 18 times as much.
11 years after release it still had 758 people in it at once.
It is still busy. 758 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
The drop-off
12% start to <1% 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
758 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).
Cite this score
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Trove scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/304050/troveThe 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 10.
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