Century: Age of Ashes
Skip · Multiplayer · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 8.4h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 760 or AMD RX 560, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Century: Age of Ashes is a free-to-play multiplayer dragon shooter. Master a growing roster of classes and dragons, compete in intense arena battles and rule the skies in fast-paced aerial combats.
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
Against its own genre it lands in the top 31 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 66 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Teeworlds (free, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Predecessor (free, scores 28).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it. It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 8.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 171, 20 times as much.
It is still busy. 54 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking. Free to start. Steam lists the aggressive monetization types on it: loot box.
The drop-off
78% start to 4% finishMost players never reach the end. On an 8.4-hour game, that's a lot of time most people never put in. Steam global achievements
Players
54 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: critic score (Metacritic).
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Century: Age of Ashes scores 35/100 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/918570/century-age-of-ashesThe 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 12.
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