Blues and Bullets

Blues and Bullets

Skip · Narrative · 2015

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The value isn't there at $4.99.

Length
2.4h
Value
$2.08/hr
Reviews
62% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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Length
2.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
3.8h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.08
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$4.99
as of Sep 24
Reviews
62%
1,375 reviews, as of Aug 2
Metacritic
73
critic score
Players
150K
owners (estimate)
Released
2015

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Blues and Bullets is a dark and violent crime thriller. Set in an alternative Eliot Ness & Al Capone story, Blues and Bullets blends a stunning script with detective work to deliver an amazing interactive experience.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$2.08/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews62% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 63% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length2.4 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ players
How many own it, a popularity + confidence signal
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 81 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was December 2015. 8 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.

It is cheaper than 60 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 95 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Blacksad: Under the Skin ($19.99, scores 53) and Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered ($0.99, scores 48) both outscore it.

73 on Metacritic, 62 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.

Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 232 reviews written there were positive, against 62 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

69% start to 6% 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

Cite this score

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Blues and Bullets scores 10/100 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/378660/blues-and-bullets
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.

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Critics vs players-11
Critics
73
Players
62
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 1,375 Steam player reviews

Tags

Details

DeveloperA Crowd of Monsters
PublisherA Crowd of Monsters
GenreNarrative
Released2015
Achievements14
AI contentNone disclosed on Steam