Glass Masquerade
BANGER · Short indie · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.24.
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $0.31/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD4000, AMD HD 6550D (or higier), 256Mb video memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Welcome to Glass Masquerade - an artistic puzzle game inspired by Art Deco & stained glass artisans of the 20th century. You need to combine hidden glass pieces to unveil clocks and themes exhibited by various cultures of the world at the 'International Times Exhibition'
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
November 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $1.24. 56 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 65 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today's $1.24 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 88. The current cut is what makes it a 97.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including FEZ ($9.99, scores 76) and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP ($7.99, scores 44).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $5.75. It costs $1.24.
Of the 416 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 421 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
68% start to 35% 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
11 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
A beautiful, unique take on jigsaw puzzles. Gorgeous art, intuitive gameplay and incredible music.
This game is pretty straightforward: jigsaw puzzles with uniquely shaped pieces and lovely art! Easy recommendation for anyone who likes jigsaw puzzles.
Delightful! A very unique take on a jigsaw puzzle game with beautiful music and cultural influence. Highly recommend.
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).
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Glass Masquerade scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/511470/glass-masqueradeThe 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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