Freebie
Skip · Short indie · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $0.99.
- Length
- 0.4h
- Value
- $2.47/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
Freebie is a casual game where you launch a ball against a paddle and hit a green surface. Be careful not to hit the red surfaces or you'll lose a life!
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 August 2016. 96 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 51 percent off, roughly 4 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.
At full price it scores 30. The current cut is what makes it a 36.
Value puts it in the top 37 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, OutDrive ($2.99, scores 37) beats it on value, while it beats Anarchy Arcade (free, scores 21).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 182 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 48 percent of everything written about it.
0.4 hours to finish it, 1 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
8% start to 5% 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
What players say
Got it free then it did my shift boss gave bonus wife smiles even cat stopped being raccoon
I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
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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Freebie scores 36/100 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/487220/freebieThe 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 14, price as of Sep 24.
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