Alien Swarm
BANGER · Shooter · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
A BANGER, and it costs nothing.
- Length
- 3.5h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 2.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Co-operative multiplayer game and complete code base available for free.
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
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, SAS: Zombie Assault 4 (free, scores 61) and Counter-Strike Nexon (free, scores 17) both come in lower.
The press gave it 77; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. An 18-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 29 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8.
The main story runs 3.5 hours. Doing everything runs 21, 6.0 times as long.
It is still busy. 23 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
The drop-off
56% start to 29% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
23 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Alien Swarm scores 92/100 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/630/alien-swarmThe 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 11.
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