It came from space and ate our brains
Skip · Shooter · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 4.5h
- Value
- $2.22/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 6-series or faster, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
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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 $1.99, set in February 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 44 in the 12 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 39 percent on value. Crimsonland ($13.99, scores 77) outscores it, and so does Over 9000 Zombies! ($2.99, scores 64). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
The main story runs 4.5 hours. Doing everything runs 42, 9.3 times as long.
The drop-off
57% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1 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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It came from space and ate our brains scores 47/100 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/342620/it-came-from-space-and-ate-our-brainsThe 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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