Sparkle 3 Genesis
Skip · Action · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $1.25/hr
- Reviews
- 60% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 7800, ATI/AMD Radeaon HD2600/3600, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Step into the amazing world of Sparkle – a surreal ocean, where life is thriving and conditions are perfect to make an evolutionary leap.
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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 $0.49, set in August 2015. It has been discounted 105 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. 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 5 weeks.
It is less well reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Tank Mechanic Simulator ($19.99, scores 76) and Retrowave ($2.09, scores 93) both outscore it.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 60 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
4 hours to finish it, 10 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
17% start to 3% 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
What players say
Sparkle 3 Genesis, developed and published by Forever Entertainment S. A., is a meditative and experimental indie title that shifts the Sparkle name away from traditional arcade puzzle roots and into the realm of abstract exploration and evolution. Rather than focusing on score chasing or fast reflex challenges, the game invites players into a tranquil, alien ecosystem where growth, choice, and atmosphere take...
Collected sparks like they owed me rent. Every level felt like fixing a TV with a spoon. I'm not playing. I'm serving sentence.
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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Sparkle 3 Genesis scores 9/100 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/361190/sparkle-3-genesisThe 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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