Darwin Project
Fair · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 750, GTX 660, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
In Darwin Project, ten inmates must survive the elements, track each other, fight, craft tools, and use their social skills to be the last one standing. It's a unique take on battle royale with a Show Director to influence the match and Spectator Interactions to create a one-of-a-kind game show.
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
Against its own genre it lands in the top 25 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 63 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Totally Accurate Battlegrounds (free, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Z1 Battle Royale (free, scores 1).
74 from critics against 82 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 183 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
10% 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
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Darwin Project scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/544920/darwin-projectThe 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.
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