12 Labours of Hercules II: The Cretan Bull
Worth it · Strategy · 2015
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 5.7h
- Value
- $0.52/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 1024x768 resolution, 696 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.14. That was December 2015. 72 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games closest to it, 12 Labours of Hercules ($2.99, scores 75) and 12 Labours of Hercules III: Girl Power ($2.99, scores 60) both come in lower.
None of the 243 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 273 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
43% start to 11% 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
Simple but enjoyment enough to pass the time or play it in the background while playing another games. Would personally wait till heavily discounted or get it with a bundled game set.
12 Labours of Hercules II is less about mythology and more about clicking. You shovel gravel, collect resources and build things. Instead of fighting monsters, you manage little tasks over and over again. It has that old cartoon charm. Bright colors, simple animations. After a while you notice how often you're just clicking. And somehow you keep going anyway. I told myself one more level. Two hours later I was still...
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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12 Labours of Hercules II: The Cretan Bull scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/360640/12-labours-of-hercules-ii-the-cretan-bullThe 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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