Fictorum
Skip · Roguelike · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 760 or equivalent, 14 GB of storage. Windows only.
Fictorum is an action RPG featuring destructible environments, a procedural node-based world map, and dynamic magic shaping.
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 $2.49, set in April 2021. It has been discounted 48 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 50 percent on value. Full Mojo Rampage ($12.99, scores 60) outscores it, and so does Vellum ($19.99, scores 68). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Critics scored it 64. Players sit 14 points higher at 78 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 394 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 266 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
32% 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
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Cite this score
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Fictorum scores 47/100 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/503620/fictorumThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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