Take On Helicopters
Skip · Multiplayer · 2011
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 13.1h
- Value
- $1.53/hr
- Reviews
- 56% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
The brand new helicopter game from independent developers Bohemia Interactive – creators of the award-winning military-Sim series Arma 2. Built upon over 10 years of experience in cutting-edge simulator development, Take On Helicopters immerses players within beautifully rich landscapes and an authentic flight model.
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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
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was February 2014. It has been discounted 92 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 92 percent. DCS World Steam Edition (free, scores 69) outscores it, and so does Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition ($59.99, scores 33). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Critics scored it 70, but players land 14 points lower at 56 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 168 reviews written there were positive, against 56 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Take On Helicopters scores 2/100 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/65730/take-on-helicoptersThe 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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