Else Heart.Break()
Skip · RPG · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $24.99.
- Length
- 13.1h
- Value
- $1.91/hr
- Reviews
- 67% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Dedicated graphics card, 1.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A game about friendship, love and technology in a place where bits have replaced atoms.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was February 2021. 32 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 83 percent. Shadows of Doubt ($24.99, scores 59) outscores it, and so does Cloudpunk ($19.99, scores 61). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
79 on Metacritic, 67 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
13.1 hours to finish it, 49 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.7 times the campaign.
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
Quite hard to get started but one of the most original games once you get there. I like!
One of my all-time favorite games. I played it too long ago to write a detailed review, but I owe it a thumbs up, because the game has lodged itself in my brain for far longer than I thought it would. This isn't a point-and-click, but it's an adventure game in the truest sense of the word. The town reminded me of playing as Deku Link in Majora's Mask as a kid, wandering around in awe and confusion at all the strange...
There's really nothing like this game, I wish I could play it for the first couple of times again to experience the feeling of mystry and helplessness at the beginning. You eventually become a master of its world, but the beginning is very difficult. Progressing on your own, exploring the secrets, and uncovering parts of the story is such an amazing feeling. The world and atmosphere is something that stuck with me...
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: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Else Heart.Break() scores 16/100 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/400110/else-heart-breakThe 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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