Clergy Splode
Skip · Action · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $0.99.
- Length
- 1.8h
- Value
- $0.55/hr
- Reviews
- 44% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, DirectX 9.0 Compatible, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
In the life of every Clergy Priest, there comes a moment when it turns out that there is no other solution than.... to just drop bombs everywhere and blow everything up... Clergy Splode is a fast paced, casual-arcade game.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.14, set in November 2015. It has been discounted 77 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 51 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $0.99 at 50 percent off still sits 607 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is cheaper than 83 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Three Heroes ($3.99, scores 22) outscores it, and so does Polyball ($3.99, scores 26). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 103 reviews written there were positive, against 44 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.
1.8 hours to finish it, 14 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 7.8 times the campaign.
What players say
It's not great - the core gameplay loop of throwing bombs at the same enemies over and over is not engaging and varied enough. Even if it were, the lack of an options menu, a locked resolution, no tutorial, no controller support, and non-rebindable input makes this a no from me.
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I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
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Clergy Splode scores 0/100 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/403900/clergy-splodeThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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