SkyDrift
Fair · Multiplayer · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.6h
- Value
- $2.78/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Get closer than ever before to the world of adrenaline pumping sky-racing where flyboys can test and master their flying and combat skills against the deadliest opponents! Admire amazingly detailed terrains. Unlock state-of-the-art planes and personalize them with unique racing skins.
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
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in December 2021. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 100 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Drift86 ($1.49, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Carmageddon Max Pack ($9.99, scores 54).
73 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 259 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 3.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 9, 2.4 times as much.
The drop-off
46% start to 2% 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
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SkyDrift scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/91100/skydriftThe 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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