Intergalactic Bubbles
Fair · Short indie · 2015
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.4h
- Value
- $1.42/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Blast your way through space in this innovative 3D bubble puzzler! Bounce, bobble, swing, and explode bubbles across the universe. Intergalactic Bubbles advances the classic match-3 genre into the 21st century with stellar graphics, 3D action, and upgrades.
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
November 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $0.49. It has been discounted 27 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 3 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Zuma Deluxe ($4.99, scores 93) and Airscape - The Fall of Gravity ($4.99, scores 63) both outscore it.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 341 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
1.4 hours to finish it, 21 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 15 times the campaign.
The drop-off
13% start to 6% 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
5 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
A connect 3 or more bubble game, nothing too special about it, it's fairly generic although there's a tech tree added to it which gives you special abilities - however it's massively disappointing in my opinion.. There's three abilities but the only one you need is the bombs fully upgraded and then putting up your energy storage and income. After the first two stages you will have enough stars (used to...
Decent Bubble Puzzle. Took a long time for me to slowly complete the game whenever I am free. Being partial colorblind, fortunately there are community files to alter the color for better recognition. Dislike the rightmouseclick that locks the pointer in position. Need some patience and persistent, for it might be a dull and long run to attain three stars for 250 puzzles. Playable.
I played the Linux version of the game exclusively so I have no idea if the Windows one has the same problem, but the game is really bad at recognizing that you matched 3 balls of the same color which is just a little tiny bit of a problem for a match 3 game. The graphic could be a bit better too. That aside it is nice to play a match 3 from a different perspective than the usual ones, shame it is not better.
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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Intergalactic Bubbles scores 54/100 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/351490/intergalactic-bubblesThe 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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