Overture
Skip · Roguelike · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Reviews
- 75% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics, 51 MB of storage. Windows only.
Overture is an action-adventure roguelike which draws heavy inspiration from hits such as Diablo, Realm of The Mad God, Zelda, and The Binding of Isaac. Explore vast randomly generated dungeons and slay hordes of cunning 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
October 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $0.49. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 60 in the 12 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
It is cheaper than 77 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition ($7.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeon Souls ($12.99, scores 37).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 204 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
2% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. Steam global achievements
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Overture scores 40/100 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/343100/overtureThe 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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