Hacker Evolution Duality
Skip · Strategy · 2011
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 5.3h
- Value
- $0.94/hr
- Reviews
- 34% positive
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Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Hacker Evolution Duality is the hacking simulation game, developed by exosyphen studios. Based on the successful Hacker Evolution game series, it has been completely redesigned to offer an impressive and new gaming experience.
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
It has never been cheaper than $0.39. That was August 2023. 107 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 51 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
It is less well reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. On the same math Hacker Evolution ($4.99, scores 20) and Internet Cafe Simulator ($9.99, scores 32) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 28 percent of the 159 reviews written there were positive, against 34 percent overall, and those are 74 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
28% start to 5% 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
What players say
They Murdered My Favorite Series. Absolute Garbage. Overall Impression As a massive fan of the original Hacker Evolution games, i was so hyped for this. I thought it would be more of that sweet, sweet typing action. Instead? I got this... point-and-click abomination. Trying to hack the system but only getting endless command screens and a coffee break. Feels like a computer language exam with no diploma and no fun...
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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Hacker Evolution Duality scores 0/100 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/70120/hacker-evolution-dualityThe 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 5, price as of Sep 24.
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