AER Memories of Old
Fair · Narrative · 2017
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.1h
- Value
- $4.84/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 560, AMD HD 6870, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Transform into a bird and fly to explore and experience a vibrant world of floating islands in the sky. Venture down into lost ancient ruins where each step leads you closer to the end of the world.
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 has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was November 2020. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 87 in the 9 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, A Short Hike ($7.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Submerged ($19.99, scores 32).
Steam's global achievement data puts 76 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,677 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 956 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 853 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
76% start to 76% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. 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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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AER Memories of Old scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/331870/aer-memories-of-oldThe 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 1, price as of Sep 24.
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