Alpha Runner
Skip · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $0.99.
- Length
- 3.6h
- Value
- $0.27/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 8-compatible graphics card with at least 32MB of video memory, 154 MB of storage. Windows only.
Alpha Runner is a challenging endless platform game, Make your way through different obstacles and mini games that get more difficult the further you get. Show off to your friends by getting the highest score on the leaderboard. Or even play with them and see who can survive the longest.
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
It has never been cheaper than $0.49. That was February 2016. Its cuts run 51 percent off as a rule. There have been 40 in the 11 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 24 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Pinstripe ($14.99, scores 51) beats it on value, while it beats Spoiler Alert ($2.99, scores 39).
At 3.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
31% start to 8% 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
Alpha Runner is a no-frills arcade platformer that embraces the core philosophy of endless runners: simple to understand, difficult to master, and built around the pursuit of improvement through repetition. Developed and published by LightsoutGames, it strips the genre down to its essentials, offering a fast-paced experience where survival depends entirely on reflexes, timing, and the ability to adapt to...
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Alpha Runner scores 47/100 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/387840/alpha-runnerThe 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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