Aeon Command
Fair · Strategy · 2014
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.7h
- Value
- $1.11/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Aeon Command is a tug of war strategy game, where you play as one of three unique factions to help gain dominance over the Aeon Nebula! Take control of your mother ship to gather resources, produce ships and fight off the enemy mother ship. Grow stronger as you progress through the 24 mission campaign and unlock new upgrades.
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
June 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $0.38. It has been discounted 65 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 about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Waveform ($1.99, scores 56) beats it on value, while it beats Starship Theory (free, scores 0).
The main story runs 2.7 hours. Doing everything runs 10, 3.7 times as long.
The drop-off
6% start to 2% 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
If you are tempted by a low price and positive reviews - don't be fooled. The only somewhat good thing about this game is its visuals. Well, price, achievements and trading cards if you didn't really come to play the game. But if you did, here is a quick list of the things you will have to deal with: [*]Despite being called a strategy, it is just a tug-of-war flash game, where you control only the production, not...
Aeon Command is at face value an RTS, but really, it plays more like a simple soldier attack/tower defense game where the objective is to pump out units faster than the enemy and that's it. For some reason the whole map is just a long thin rectangle with a player at each end, because the developer wanted this to seem like a "tug of war". Kinda like taking a game like Deus Ex and turning it into a cover shooter. Did...
I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
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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Aeon Command scores 53/100 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/304670/aeon-commandThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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