Shattered Planet
Skip · Roguelike · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Length
- 6.8h
- Value
- $2.20/hr
- Reviews
- 68% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, X1950 Pro, 7900 GT. 1024 x 768 or larger resolution, 645 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Explore a dangerous planet that's different every time and try to survive! The Galactic Union's job for you is clear: research the alien wildlife -- for science! However, researching may include lasers, explosions, hungry aliens, space sushi, and other similarly delicious-or-terrifying hazards.
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
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was April 2017. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 111 in the 12 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 85 percent. NEO Scavenger ($14.99, scores 75) outscores it, and so does Into the Breach ($14.99, scores 86). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 102 reviews written there were positive, against 68 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 6.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 54, 8.0 times as much.
The drop-off
72% 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
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
It has been ten years now since I played this game but I still have the best memories!I
Shattered Planet is an inventive and atmospheric roguelike from Kitfox Games that combines exploration, survival, and a dash of absurd sci-fi humor into a compellingly unpredictable experience. The premise is deceptively simple: you are a clone dispatched by the Galactic Union to explore the fragments of a mysterious, broken world that is steadily being consumed by a spreading cosmic blight. Every expedition you...
I like the game, but it's basically endless. It gets a bit repetitive. It's hack and slash, and there are multiple characters you can play, multiple pets you can have.
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).
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Shattered Planet scores 21/100 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/305640/shattered-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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