Data Hacker: Initiation
Skip · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $1.99.
- Length
- 25.5h
- Value
- $0.08/hr
- Reviews
- 64% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Card capable of 1024 x 768 pixels or higher desktop resolution, 317 MB of storage. Windows only.
Data Hacker: Initiation sets the stage for the Datastream saga; an epic series of tales revolving around the possibility of virtual realms existing beyond our current reach. Once the bridge is crafted, everything will change.
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 $0.24, set in October 2015. 93 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. 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.
It is cheaper than 88 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Insanity Clicker (free, scores 19) beats it on value, while it beats StarMade ($14.99, scores 15).
The main story runs 25.5 hours. Doing everything runs 77, 3.0 times as long.
The drop-off
4% 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
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
This one's real fun and good, played through it tons of times. The follow-up games are buggy messes, and I do not recommend those.
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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Data Hacker: Initiation scores 16/100 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/311860/data-hacker-initiationThe 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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