Jet Gunner
Skip · Action · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $0.99.
- Length
- 1.9h
- Value
- $0.52/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 256MB or higher, 31 MB of storage. Windows only.
Jet Gunner is a 2D platform action indie game that's full of Nestalgia. Full of action, gunfights, bosses and explosions so if you're into the whole 8-Bit vibe you should love this. From the sound, to the graphics to the flicker, this should pay tribute to those classic hard as nails, run 'n' gun games.
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The value story
February 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $0.49. It has been discounted 36 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 51 percent off, with about 15 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 15 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 30 percent on value. It is cheaper than 90 percent of its genre. On the same math The Way ($14.99, scores 40) and Environmental Station Alpha ($7.99, scores 48) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Steam's global achievement data says about 4 percent of players ever finish it. On a 1.9-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see.
Finishing takes 1.9 hours; clearing it takes 13, which is 6.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
9% start to 4% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 1.9-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
Good fun, but some very unfair enemy placement on stage 4. Feels very authentic of old Nes platformers
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Seriously flawed. Negatives: - Many weapons are too weak, have useless fire patterns or their rate of fire is too low. Picking these up is actually a death sentence. - Poor level design. Some levels (especially stage 3) don't contain enough space to manouvre while being littered with objects. - Poor enemy positioning. - Hard to avoid enemy attacks because they'll fire the moment they pop-in while having a short...
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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Jet Gunner scores 38/100 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/314250/jet-gunnerThe 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 21, price as of Sep 24.
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