Marble Mayhem: Fragile Ball
Skip · Short indie · 2015
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $1.99.
- Length
- 3h
- Value
- $0.66/hr
- Reviews
- 67% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, DirectX Compatible 3D Card. Windows only.
Devilishly difficult but insanely rewarding physics puzzler. Play through 85 levels of diverse and ingenious physics-based challenges.
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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
October 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $0.14. It has been discounted 54 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 85 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. The Howler (free, scores 47) and Osmos ($9.99, scores 59) both outscore it.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 452 reviews written there were positive, against 67 percent overall, and those are 49 percent of everything written about it.
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Marble Mayhem: Fragile Ball scores 21/100 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/370510/marble-mayhem-fragile-ballThe 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 23.
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