The Lost Valley
Skip · Action · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 0.3h
- Value
- $16.63/hr
- Reviews
- 37% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 550 or AMD Radeon R7 250, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
"The Lost Valley" is a small game where you will play as a cyclist who will get in an accident. The protagonist finds himself in a great valley called "The Lost Valley". The bicycle is broken as a result of cliff falling and the protagonist has to move further on foot.
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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 $0.99, set in April 2020. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 92 in the 11 years tracked, about 4 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 4 weeks.
It is less well reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. On the same math Streamer Life Simulator ($19.99, scores 38) and Tank Mechanic Simulator ($19.99, scores 76) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 162 reviews written there were positive, against 37 percent overall, and those are 90 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Summary Category Perception Level design Straight forward path with minor detours. Usually not too difficult to understand where you're supposed to go Art Everything has that cryengine wet look to it. The overall environmental design is good or bad depending on where you're looking Sound design Almost no sounds at all. Soundtrack is very loud and obnoxious Story You apparently play as a cyclist. This is only...
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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The Lost Valley scores 0/100 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/360890/the-lost-valleyThe 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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