Pinball FX Classic

Pinball FX Classic

Worth it · Strategy · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it at free.

Price
Free to play
Reviews
88% positive
Length
No data
no length in our data yet
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
88%
5,435 reviews, as of Sep 17
Metacritic
89
critic score
Players
750K
owners (estimate)
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvida GTS 450 or AMD equivalent, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.

Pinball FX Classic is the biggest, most community focused pinball game ever created. Multiplayer matchups, user generated tournaments and league play create endless opportunity for pinball competition.
Description from the Steam store page.

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.

Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement2% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 87% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach750K+ players
How many own it, a popularity + confidence signal
For context
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies

The value story

Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Learn to Fly 3 (free, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Pinball Arcade (free, scores 38).

Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement.

It is still busy. 83 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.

The drop-off

58% start to 2% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Most players never reach the end. Steam global achievements

Players

83 players at peak in the last day.

The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.

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Pinball FX Classic scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/442120/pinball-fx-classic
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The 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 17.

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Critics vs players-1
Critics
89
Players
88
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 5,435 Steam player reviews

Tags

Details

DeveloperZen Studios
PublisherZen Studios
GenreStrategy
Released2017
Achievements110