Alter World
Skip · Short indie · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 3.6h
- Value
- $1.39/hr
- Reviews
- 68% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Onboard 256 Mb RAM, 645 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Enter the Alter World, a mysterious parallel reality where the rules are different and every step brings new challenges. Inspired by Stephen King's The Dark Tower, Alter World is a 2D platformer built around a unique mechanic that allows you to switch between two realities at any time to overcome obstacles, solve puzzles, and progress...
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 $0.49, set in June 2019. 68 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 6 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 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 81 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Teslagrad ($9.99, scores 55) and Toki Tori ($4.99, scores 69) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data says about 8 percent of players ever finish it. On a 3.6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see.
The drop-off
9% start to 8% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 3.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. 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.
What players say
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️❌❌❌❌ ___(6/10) ??? I'm not usually a fan of 2D games, but I decided to give this one a try - and I don't regret it. ⋯⋯⋯✦⋯⋯⋯✦⋯⋯⋯✦⋯⋯⋯ The story is minimalistic yet atmospheric. The levels are fairly short, but each introduces its own mechanics, which keeps the gameplay fresh and engaging. ⋯⋯⋯✦⋯⋯⋯✦⋯⋯⋯✦⋯⋯⋯ The localization is solid: the text reads smoothly without feeling like a machine translation. Overall...
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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Alter World scores 22/100 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/357280/alter-worldThe 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 23, price as of Sep 24.
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