INK
Fair · Action · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $2.27/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512 MB VRAM. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
INK is a fast-paced platformer about using colorful paint to uncover your surroundings. Defeat all enemies in the room and reach the goal! However, the terrain is invisible, so you need to discover the terrain by physically bumping into it, by performing a double jump or by, well, dying.
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.
The value story
April 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. 13 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 10 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 81 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Airscape - The Fall of Gravity ($4.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap ($19.99, scores 42).
Critics scored it 68. Players sit 13 points higher at 81 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 319 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 51 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.2 hours. Doing everything runs 9, 4.0 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
79% start to 1% rarestNo 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
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
Genuinely underrated. Awesome difficulty and game mechanics, really a slice of unexpected challenge (not even mentioning the 3 rarest achievements, I wouldn't even DARE)
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.
Cite this score
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INK scores 58/100 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/385710/inkThe 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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