E.T. Armies
Skip · Shooter · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Length
- 2.7h
- Value
- $5.55/hr
- Reviews
- 50% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
E.T. Armies is an action-packed, fast-paced, science-fiction first person shooter. The game takes place in a future where Earth has been reduced to ashes; It is now home to a new nation that hungers only for war. Prepare yourself to rise and defend against the invasion of the Forsaken.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
November 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. It has been discounted 70 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Interstellar Marines ($9.99, scores 2) beats it on value, while it beats Guardians of Orion (Phase 2) ($0.99, scores 0).
Steam's global achievement data says about 7 percent of players ever finish it. On a 2.7-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see.
The drop-off
32% start to 7% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 2.7-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
E.T. Armies a game i picked up last year when it was on sale, i did not played too much with it back then because I only tried out. Well it wasn't that bad at first but it wasn't great either, something you would expect for that very low price. Finally i reinstalled the game again and started playing it. The game is very repetitive at most times, it's just like progress, take cover, kill the enemies on the area...
Was kind of fun till the train part where it bugged out three times. It tells me to get off the train then it kills me the second i get off and makes you redo an annoying shoot-out. NAHHHH i gave it 3 tries and it just kept bugging out. I am good.
The game was OK, I didn't have all the problems others were complaining about. But make sure that you buy this one on sale. There's no cover cover function to this game, and the damage piles up quickly. The storyline is ok, nothing great, and at least the graphics are nice.
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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E.T. Armies scores 1/100 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/382420/e-t-armiesThe 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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