Gish
Skip · Action · 2007
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 4.4h
- Value
- $2.27/hr
- Reviews
- 59% positive
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Runs on Windows, macOS.
Gish isn't your average hero. In fact, he's not your average anything...you see, Gish is a ball of tar. A Sunday stroll with his lady friend, Brea, goes awry when a shadowy figure emerges from an open manhole and pulls Brea below ground.
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 $1.00. That was January 2020. 9 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 58 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 95 percent. Trine Enchanted Edition ($14.99, scores 78) outscores it, and so does Type:Rider ($4.99, scores 48). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
80 on Metacritic, 59 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 177 reviews written there were positive, against 59 percent overall, and those are 59 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 4.4 hours; clearing it takes 20, which is 4.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
2% start to 1% 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.
What players say
Forgotten gem, a very nice platformer with nice atmospheric levels and music. Short but fun to play.
This game's kinda a gem (if you play version 170) Gish initially feels really bad to control but after a certain point you will master him and the levels will feel like jokes
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.
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Gish scores 7/100 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/9500/gishThe 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 3, price as of Sep 24.
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