Gothic 1
Fair · RPG · 2001
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D graphics card with 32 MB Ram, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
War has been waged across the kingdom of Myrtana. Orcish hordes invaded human territory and the king of the land needed a lot of ore to forge enough weapons, should his army stand against this threat. Whoever breaks the law in these darkest of times is sentenced to serve in the giant penal colony of Khorinis, mining the so much needed...
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
September 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 81 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gothic II: Gold Edition ($19.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Risen 3 - Titan Lords ($14.99, scores 42).
81 from critics against 93 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
16 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 2,382 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Players
103 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Gothic 1 scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/65540/gothic-1The 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 Jul 30, price as of Sep 24.
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