Kivi, Toilet and Shotgun
Skip · Action · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $0.99.
- Length
- 3.8h
- Value
- $0.26/hr
- Reviews
- 52% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 Mb. Windows only.
Kivi, Toilet and Shotgun is a single player top down action game where your goal is to reach the end of the desert by avoiding all kinds of obstacles and fighting the desert raiders. Go up against foes in your vehicle and on foot. Take on powerful bosses, but make sure you're quipped for the fight!
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 $0.49, set in February 2016. Its cuts run 51 percent off as a rule. There have been 76 in the 11 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $0.99 at 50 percent off still sits 102 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is cheaper than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. AtmaSphere ($3.99, scores 57) and Kaze and the Wild Masks ($9.99, scores 63) both outscore it.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 125 reviews written there were positive, against 52 percent overall, and those are 57 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
The base game is reminiscent of web flash games but beyond that it is a frustrating buggy mess that isn't balanced properly. The gameplay alternates between driving sections where you need to reach the next town while fighting enemy cars and barricades of jobbers blocking your way. This part plays fine until you run out of the extremely few bullets your car is allowed to ever have (no upgrades for this for some...
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: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Kivi, Toilet and Shotgun 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/428950/kivi-toilet-and-shotgunThe 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 3, price as of Sep 24.
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