DETOUR
Skip · Strategy · 2011
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $1.99.
- Length
- 1.9h
- Value
- $1.05/hr
- Reviews
- 61% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 9 and Shader Model 1.1 support. 512 MB required., 164 MB of storage. Windows only.
A true test your wits and spatial reasoning. Detour combines highway-building fun with the excitement of a competitive real-time strategy game. Construct a path for your convoy to reach its destination in this incredibly addictive title. With online multiplayer!
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
October 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $0.14. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 45 in the 14 years tracked, about 4 weeks apart.
It is cheaper than 85 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pixel Puzzles Ultimate Jigsaw Puzzles (free, scores 42) beats it on value, while it beats gravilon ($2.99, scores 5).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 770 reviews written there were positive, against 61 percent overall, and those are 59 percent of everything written about it.
1.9 hours to finish it, 26 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 13 times the campaign.
The drop-off
11% start to 6% 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
Players
1 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).
Cite this score
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DETOUR scores 9/100 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/92100/detourThe 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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