X-COM: Enforcer
Skip · Shooter · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 4.4h
- Value
- $1.13/hr
- Reviews
- 58% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 31 MB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
X-COM: Earth's top-secret eXtraterrestrial COMbat unit The Place: America - early 21st century The Mission: Eradicate the extraterrestrials Alien forces have invaded Earth and are terrorizing the population.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.24, set in October 2013. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 69 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 89 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. STAR WARS™ Battlefront ($4.99, scores 47) and The Bureau: XCOM Declassified ($3.99, scores 27) both outscore it.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 159 reviews written there were positive, against 58 percent overall, and those are 51 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
This game brings one of the greatest pc gaming childhood memories for me. The early 2000s gave us many great games, but in the genre of a scientist robot created with the sole purpose to save the world from the alien invaders, nothing beats X-COM Enforcer! I haven't played any other games from the XCOM series so i cannot compare this one to them, but this is a standalone masterpiece for its time. I'm here 20+ years...
Back in the day it was a slap in the face. We were promised an immersive 3d tactical Xcom game. We had this. It's a game where you (a robot) go pew pew killing everything and collecting power ups. No tactical approach no awesome history, no research new weapons, just pew pew. I bought it because it came in a franchise pack. Don't buy it. Edit: grammar
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.
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X-COM: Enforcer scores 6/100 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/7770/x-com-enforcerThe 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 3, price as of Sep 24.
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