Calcu-Late
Skip · RPG · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $0.99.
- Length
- 1h
- Value
- $0.99/hr
- Reviews
- 59% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, DirectX 9.0 Compatible, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
Calcu-Late is a story about a boy named James that needs to participate in a godly Olympics tournament as a representative for the goddess of mathematics, Seshat. The tournament will grant the participant a wish that they stated before the tournament starts.
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
May 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $0.49. Its cuts run 51 percent off as a rule. There have been 74 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 88 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 94 percent. 再刷一把 PlayAgain ($8.99, scores 15) outscores it, and so does Memories of a Vagabond ($29.99, scores 35). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
What players say
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Calcu-Late scores 6/100 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/449200/calcu-lateThe 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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