ELEX
Skip · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $29.99.
- Length
- 27.5h
- Value
- $1.09/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB, AMD Radeon 7850 2GB, 35 GB of storage. Windows only.
ELEX is a handcrafted action role-playing experience from the award-winning creators of the Gothic series, set in a brand new post-apocalyptic Science Fantasy universe that puts players into a huge seamless game world full of original characters, mutated creatures, deep moral choices and powerful action.
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
The lowest price on record is $7.49, set in April 2022. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 70 in the 9 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 49 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Gothic 1 ($19.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats BIOMUTANT ($39.99, scores 16).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 24 percent of the 1,240 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 27.5 hours; clearing it takes 85, which is 3.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
88% start to 3% 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
82 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
Great RPG. Open world. Decisions actually matter. Kinda nice when a game says that and delivers.
i really havent gotten far, it's basically a gothic game with a serious identity crsis and unforgivingly difficult enemies. i have mixed feelings
Uninteresting story, tiring grind, steep learning curve, mediocre graphics. There are better games out there which respect your time
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.
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ELEX scores 39/100 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/411300/elexThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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