Steel Storm: Burning Retribution
Skip · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Length
- 5.6h
- Value
- $2.68/hr
- Reviews
- 60% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 901 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Control an advanced hovertank, packed with the most advanced and sophisticated weapons as you fight against extraterrestrial invaders.
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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
The lowest price on record is $2.24, set in October 2017. 39 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 18 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 18 weeks.
It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 86 percent. On the same math Nex Machina ($19.99, scores 66) and Alien Shooter ($4.99, scores 87) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
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Steel Storm: Burning Retribution scores 6/100 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/96200/steel-storm-burning-retributionThe 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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