SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition
Worth it · Roguelike · 2015
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99.
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- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Integrated Graphics, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition is a humorous and strategic turn-based dungeon crawling ASCII adventure. Drawing heavy inspiration from both Roguelikes and Japanese RPGs, the game offers a robust action-RPG inspired combat system.
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The value story
November 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $0.79. It has been discounted 62 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 20 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, UnderMine ($19.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Overture ($4.99, scores 40).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 163 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/328760/sanctuaryrpg-black-editionThe 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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