Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
Fair · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 15h
- Value
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 128MB, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
June 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 34 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 67 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon Cliff ($9.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Starpoint Gemini Warlords ($34.99, scores 33).
71 from critics against 84 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 4 percent of players ever finish it. On a 15-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see.
Finishing takes 15 hours; clearing it takes 35, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
At 15 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
74% start to 4% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 15-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
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.
What players say
Developed and published by Massive Damage, Inc., Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is an inventive blend of 4X strategy, base management, tactical RPG combat, and science fiction storytelling. The game begins with humanity on the brink of collapse as a relentless alien threat advances toward Earth. Standing between civilization and destruction is Halcyon 6, an ancient and technologically advanced starbase abandoned by a...
I bought this game Friday. I played 23 hours. I just finished it. It's Tuesday. I didn't play it on the easiest setting, nor was it the most difficult. But considering in the last 4.5 days, an almost 10 year old game had me completely engaged for 23 hours.... I'd definitely say it was worth the $16 or whatever I paid for it.
Older version of the game which is more grindy, apparently? I thought the grind was the worst part of the "Lightspeed Edition." I think I got these together as a bundle. Lightspeed is fun (if grindy) this one must be unplayably slow.
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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Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/371200/halcyon-6-starbase-commanderThe 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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