Robotex
Skip · Action · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 38% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 (or better), 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Life on Earth is unsustainable. Humanity must seek a new home but the only planet found is very hostile. You were sent on a expedition to slay the monsters inhabiting the surface of this planet. In this adventure you end up being the villain. Game contains two basic controls, many puzzles and lots of guns and enemies.
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 $0.09, set in August 2015. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 56 in the 12 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is less well reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. On the same math Life Goes On: Done to Death ($12.99, scores 62) and Broforce ($14.99, scores 93) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 27 percent of the 438 reviews written there were positive, against 38 percent overall, and those are 59 percent of everything written about it.
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.
What players say
Robotex is a side-scrolling action platformer developed by YFYX GAMES and published by My Way Games, released on Steam in 2014. Positioned as a small independent project, the game attempts to combine classic 2D platforming with shooting mechanics and light environmental puzzle elements. Built with a relatively simple design philosophy, the title focuses on straightforward controls and short gameplay loops rather...
It's simply unacceptable to make such awkward, awkward, and unresponsive controls in a game where the entire gameplay depends on them.
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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Robotex scores 0/100 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/330350/robotexThe 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 22, price as of Sep 24.
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