Blue Estate The Game
Fair · Shooter · 2015
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM (not recommended for Intel HD Graphics cards), 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Blue Estate is a black-humoured and corrosive rail shooter, adapted from the critically acclaimed and Eisner Award nominated graphic novel, Blue Estate by Viktor Kalvachev!
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.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.03. That was January 2026. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 80 in the 11 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. 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.
Value puts it in the top 27 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Screencheat ($14.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced ($29.99, scores 53).
59 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. This site sampled 337 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 323 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
64% start to 7% finishMost players never reach the end. Steam global achievements
Players
6 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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Blue Estate The Game scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/305380/blue-estate-the-gameThe 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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