Ace Of Words
Skip · Short indie · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 1.4h
- Value
- $3.56/hr
- Reviews
- 64% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB VRAM, 82 MB of storage. Windows only.
Become a spelling ace or just beat the highest score in this arcade spelling contest. The challenge is ON! 8 letters, up to 100 words and 120 seconds to spell them out. Compete against other players via leaderboards and become real Ace Of Words.
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 $0.99. That was October 2017. 20 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 92 percent. On the same math Influent Language Learning Game ($19.99, scores 24) and Wordle ($30.62, scores 31) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
The main story runs 1.4 hours. Doing everything runs 14, 9.8 times as long.
The drop-off
20% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
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Ace Of Words scores 12/100 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/398680/ace-of-wordsThe 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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