Transmissions: Element 120

Transmissions: Element 120

BANGER · Shooter · 2016

The verdict

PLAY IT.

A BANGER, and it costs nothing.

Length
1.1h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
95% positive
Length
1.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
1.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
95%
9,955 reviews, as of Sep 17
Players
750K
owners (estimate)
Released
2016

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Video card with 128 MB, Shader model 2.0. ATI X800, NVidia 6600 or better, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

TE120 is a short single player experience set in the Half-Life Universe featuring a gravity defying weapon that allows you to jump buildings and sustain large falls. The story takes place at a mysterious date & location. Where are you? Why have you been sent?
Description from the Steam store page.

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.

Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 94% after the small-sample adjustment
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. Nothing is docked
Holding it back
Reach750K+ players
How many own it, a popularity + confidence signal
For context
Length1.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies

The value story

Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Cry of Fear (free, scores 77) and No More Room in Hell (free, scores 80) both come in lower.

Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 210 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 74 percent of everything written about it.

It is still busy. 3 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.

The drop-off

59% start to 7% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

3 players at peak in the last day.

The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

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Transmissions: Element 120 scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/365300/transmissions-element-120
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The 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 17.

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Tags

Details

DeveloperShokunin
PublisherSelf Published
GenreShooter
Released2016
Achievements11