Jamestown
Worth it · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.62.
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.84/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 2,366
- Critics
- 81 players 13 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 7% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.62 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.6h
- To 100%
- 8h 3.1x the story
- Finish
- 19% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 42
Price and sales
- Sales
- 9 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 November 2019
- Sale every
- 175d last November 2019
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
89% start to 19% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 9 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 25 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $6.62, a level the record has reached 7 times.
Its score sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 93 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 70).
More about Jamestown
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 puts about 19 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 156 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 3.1 times the campaign.
At 2.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 2532 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
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...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Jamestown scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/94200/jamestownReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.