The Forgotten Ones
Skip · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 2.3h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 60% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Losing his parents during the holocaust to a mad man of a doctor. You're to play as Grobuskna Vladinov, 20 years after the incident that changed his life dramatically. Grobuskna receives an unknown phone call that'll start a journey that'll twist your mind...
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 is less well reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Cry of Fear (free, scores 77) outscores it, and so does Zombie Panic! Source (free, scores 66). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Steam's global achievement data says about 10 percent of players ever finish it. On a 2.3-hour game, that is a lot of evenings most people never spend.
2.3 hours to finish it, 6 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
It is still busy. 3 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
The drop-off
18% start to 10% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 2.3-hour game, that's a lot of time most people never put in. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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The Forgotten Ones scores 8/100 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/314280/the-forgotten-onesThe 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.
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