Krater
Skip · RPG · 2012
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Length
- 17.4h
- Value
- $0.86/hr
- Reviews
- 55% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Shader 4.0 compatible card (minimum: Nvidia GeForce 8xxx, AMD Radeon 2xxx), 13 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The game brings you far into the future of a post-apocalyptic Sweden.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in February 2020. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 106 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem ($3.99, scores 2) and Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr ($49.99, scores 48) both outscore it.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 160 reviews written there were positive, against 55 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 17.4 hours. Doing everything runs 47, 2.7 times as long.
The drop-off
71% start to 1% 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
The game feels outdated with clunky controls and poor graphics. The gameplay is shallow, and it quickly becomes monotonous. Overall, it's disappointing and not engaging enough for modern players.
The game crashes rather consistently during Chapter 2, so I'm just giving up on it. The combat is plentiful, but pretty mind numbing. The story feels like a bunch of ideas were tossed into a hat and then placed on a storyboard at random. Lots of recruitable characters that are devoid of personality.
If you can score this while it's on sale, I suggest giving it a try. Actually didn't mind this one.
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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Krater scores 1/100 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/42170/kraterThe 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 4, price as of Sep 24.
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