Jamestown
Worth it · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.61.
- Length
- 2.6h
- Value
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne email when it is worth buying. Your call on what that means.
Get one email when Jamestown is worth buying.
One email per game. Unsubscribe in a click.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Any OpenGL 2.0 graphics card with 256MB+ video RAM and full GLSL support, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players, set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. It features all the intensity, depth, and lovingly handcrafted pixels of a classic arcade shooter, with a modern twist: deeply-integrated cooperative gameplay.
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 $2.99. That was November 2019. It has been discounted 9 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 25 weeks between sales. It becomes a BANGER at $6.61, a level the record has reached 7 times.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Beat Hazard ($9.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats The Bug Butcher ($7.99, scores 60).
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 13 points higher at 94 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data says about 19 percent of players ever finish it. On a 2.6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 157 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
2.6 hours to finish it, 8 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.0 times the campaign.
At 2.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
89% start to 19% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
I like it quite a bit but cannot in good conscience recommend it, mostly because a better version called Jamestown+ is available. The positives are an original steampunk setting, pretty pixel graphics, up to 4 player coop mode and very precise controls. Picking up those cogs when enemies explode is fun... and dangerous. The limited-time shield adds strategy. However, the negatives are a short campaign, frustrating...
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.
Cite this score
Embed the live badge, copy the line, or download the card.
Jamestown scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/94200/jamestownThe 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 1, price as of Sep 24.
A number here look wrong? Tell me what it got wrong and I will look at the inputs behind it.